Sunny and warm. St. Nicholas Day.
Toddled over to Trader Joe’s, which is across the street from the movie studios built by Fairbanks and Pickford, and which are still in service. I decided to have a cup of green tea at a cafe in the little shopping center. After 10-15 minutes, soarcling ravens appeared low to south, moving over The Lot, and then drifting north as they gained altitude rapidly. I can only estimate that they may have been almost twice as high as Cloud’s Rest by the time they decided to bear north, and they must have been over Mt. Cahuenga when they finally vanished from sight. This was interesting, because I’d been guessing they would return more directly to Runyon.
This and further sightings up and down LaBrea leave me with ever more curiosity about ravens in the flats - visitors? inhabitants? do they all leave in the middle of the day?