High above the LA River and the Ventura Freeway, with a fine view of Griffith Park’s TravelTown and Equestrian Center, a pair of ravens have built a seemingly precarious home on a high voltage power line pylon.
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LA River Ravens
23-Feb-08Birds working all over the place
20-Mar-07Well, not only were a pair of ravens roosting locally, but they were trying to build a nest in the billboard in the photo below.
They were at it for about a week - and then their twig-bearing flights seemed to change direction. This morning I found out why. They are building a nest on a [...]
Birds about town
19-Mar-07Drove a different route to work and got to see other than Labrea ravens. There was a pair descending spiritedly over Crescent Heights and Sunset Blvd, and another soaring over the Skybar. In the afternoon, a pair over Culver City at Jefferson and Sepulveda, and simply lots of ravens to welcome me back home to [...]
Ravens Working in Trees II
01-Mar-07Back to the GP today to see how things are going. Last Sunday small twigs were being taken up to the nest. Today it was some kind of soft-looking stuff, so I guess they are finishing up. Lots of ravens in the air over the park. Took lots of photos on film since I really [...]
Ravens Working in Trees
01-Mar-07Nesting season is officially underway, and I had the good luck to catch not one but two pair of ravens hard at work over the last weekend - in two different cities, too. The first pair are evidently undaunted by the heavy traffic of motor coaches driving to and from the newly re-opened Griffith Park [...]
Home is where the heart is
07-Dec-06
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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 [...]
Ravens on Iron Mountain
21-Mar-06Ravens 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. [...]
Nest with address
01-Mar-06Finally 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 [...]
No breakthrough for ravens
05-Jan-06The industry and media gushing over a certain film about kissing cowboys is pretty astonishing, considering the movies many flaws and the overexaggerations about its place in film history. The only shortcoming relevant here, however, is the absence of ravens on large, dead mammals. A nice pair of ravens engaged in allopreening or billing would’ve [...]