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Originally uploaded by AlasdairFitheach.
Mid-day, sunny, warm. Found myself southbound on Highland with an excellent view of the Iron Mountain facility. Just as I was reminding myself to watch for ravens, hoping to catch pre-breeding activity, a raven flew into view from the west. It circled ten or so times over Highland, on the side of [...]
At dawn today in Hollywood I heard a familiar voice outside, reminding me to blog the story of what I saw in the Del Rey Hills yesterday, mid-afternoon. The Del Rey hills are the bluffs that rise above the Ballona Wetlands in west L.A., south of Marina del Rey. They have been continuously inhabited for [...]
From our correspondent in San Francisco:
Along Ocean beach here in SF which faces the open
Pacific there are about 200 Ravens feeding and
cavorting daily…one roost in Golden Gate Park
must host 150 nightly…and SF is only 49 square
miles.
www.towhee.net
for birding the Bay Area
Sounds like heaven!
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Originally uploaded by AlasdairFitheach.
This is a rare glimpse of mid-afternoon foraging on the ground by a pair of Hollywood ravens. The parking lot was devoid of humans, and the gulls had already arrived. Ravens seem willing to move in on food if other birds are there already and there are not too many people around. [...]
