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Monthly Archives: June 2006

More YouTube

15-Jun-06

Juvenile raven looking for love in Palos Verdes. Great close up footage. I’d been wondering exactly how pink a juvenile’s mouth was. Evidently the ravens down there interact far more with humans than Hollywood ravens.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnkZPpeUbyM&search=ravens%20birds

Six Silly Ravens

05-Jun-06

cavorting 50m and descending over La Tijera and the 405 under a late morning June Gloom (a.k.a marine layer). Good thing, too, because they were heading right for LAX’s inbound flight path.

Ravens on YouTube

01-Jun-06

yeah, you knew it was coming.
Two ravens outside library windows at UCSD. How come ravens don’t hang out by *my* library?
And here are two LA ravens, fighting off a hawk.

Family fun in Runyon Canyon

01-Jun-06

Took a mid-morning hike through RC today, and was rewarded with ample observations, not least of which was the amusing awk! of a fledgling. Eventually his or her voice will change, but right now it sounded far more like a crow - even worse, like a raucous crow fledgling. Nearby were two others - sibling [...]