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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. [...]
Classic raven attack. Beaudry fire road trailhead in Glendale. Apparently dropped by hiker or biker. Raven only had time to make off with the missing piece before we showed up, but no doubt it came back to finish the victim off.
Three separate sightings of a trio or distinct trios of ravens in hollywood’s melrose district. the first one I called crazy eddie because he was trying to peck into some high voltage wires. vocalizations were audible through my earpods, or i’dve missed them. the other two showed up about ten minutes after. a crow [...]
Up to Runyon - for exercise, I swear. Somewhat early in the morning, cool, partly cloudy. again the only time I’ve caught the birds with food or caching - walking up LaBrea by Hawthorne, raven alights on billboard with some sort of paper wrapper looking thing. Bird hops inside billboard, seems to cache. May have [...]
Woke up this Thanksgiving morning with the rrak-ousness of five or six ravens chasing each other around my building. Unless that bird in the lead was a hawk… later I spied on over the empty lot next to the TraveLodge, and decided to grab the camera aned go see what might be on. Didn’t have [...]
I wonder why I bother running hither and yon to see ravens - there are plenty at home. Agitated crows outside woke me up all too early, but lying in bed later, I heard that familiar rruk-rruk, no doubt from the pines above my building, and then closer - looking out the window, two birds [...]
I’m always about testing the notion that you can’t go out in Hollywood without ravens around. Got resounding results today. It was supposed to be a trip to Trader Joe’s and back. I took the same route south as yesterday (Orange) - Radio Recorders also hosted Nat “King” Cole and the Beach Boys, I noticed [...]
Overcast and threatening rain.
Picnic area by Greek Theater. Pair of foraging ravens. One was in a dumpster making off with discarded garlic bread. The two birds then flew back to the picnic area. One remained on the tip of a dead tree while the other flew down the street. After a few minutes it returned [...]
The musical number that is our unofficial city anthem would have sounded slightly different if our city founders had been sticklers for taxonomic accuracy. Hollywood was alledgedly named for the large shrubs bearing bright red berries in the winter, not really holly, but toyon. They are one of the dominant species in the Santa Monicas [...]
Hollywood may be a mythical tinseltown to most people, but in reality it’s a place where the ultra-famous live alongside the utterly destitute, with a lot of ordinary working people in between. Lots of residents live off dumpster diving, and ravens are no exception, as my marathon raven expedition on Sunday in Griffith Park was [...]
