Ravens foraging with gulls at Nickelodeon Studios on Sunset Blvd
Posted by ravens at December 3rd, 2006
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. Whatever the birds had found, there wasn’t much of it left. Previous to this , the pair of ravens had been investigating a billboard full of pigeons – in the other photo one can be seen on top; the second was inside having a look around. Pigeon eggs? Or a cached bit of whatever was in the parking lot? I have seen what may be caching in billboards, and know nothing about pigeon reproduction, so I think the caching is more likely.
It was a warm, dry, sunny day. Previously I’d seen a raven soaring above Hollywood and Highland at around 150 m, and two pair soarcling lower over roughly Hollywood and Cahuenga. I am becoming pretty convinced that ravens are more likely to be found along Sunset Blvd. in the afternoon and evening. This was also the second time I’ve observed a pair of ravens at this billboard.
