Posted by ravens at June 15th, 2006
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
Posted by ravens at June 5th, 2006
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.
Posted by ravens at June 1st, 2006
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.
Posted by ravens at June 1st, 2006
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 and parent or perhaps two parents. At least one adult anyway, to judge by quorking. Hard to see pink mouths at 20m+ distance.
On my way up the west ridge, I saw a lot of the now-familiar barrel roll plus quork-quork-quork. This is where I get anxious to have a video camera. Is it frolicking, or something more practical? It seems apart from other acrobatics and frolics. But only a lot of data captured on video with metadata will really allow analysis of the same events by many minds.
Got poison oak, too. But not badly.