Arrived at work to find 11-12 ravens flying in a cloud at 80m or so above campus (roughly one mile north of LAX) in clear skies with a cool wind off the ocean. Shortly thereafter, a decision got made, and the flock of them sped off towards downtown LA. I couldn’t help but remember seeing [...]
I went back to Iron Mountain’s Film and Sound Archive Services this morning *with* the camera, and was amply rewarded. Ravens in Hollywood live in a rooftop world that is difficult to access without trespass or a cherry picker, but the nest keeps them close to home and pretty visible. Daddy raven likes the telephone [...]
Ravens like to nest on cliff faces, but in L.A., the next best thing is a cliff-like building. I have been keeping an eye on the massive Iron Mountain building on Highland (a.k.a. LA’s largest billboard, but home as well to Jim Henson and Dodgers archives), for some time, but had been disappointed. Until today. [...]
Finally I confirmed that Runyon Canyon is occupied by a breeding pair, after watching them collect twigs to build or refurbish the very hard to see nest in the Jeffries (?) pine at the Lloyd Wright house. While by no means the only pair of ravens with a street address, I suspect these two may [...]
Suddenly I am observing pairs of ravens near or in the Baldwin Hills on my morning commute, southbound on La Cienega. There is a county park that preserves part of the hills in the state preferred by ravens, tall trees included. Given the number of ravens running around LA this winter, it would be silly [...]
