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-08Bernie
17-Nov-07The very vocal young raven I mentioned in my last post was pretty easy to find most evenings last summer. I named him Bernie because his vocalization, a very frequent (every 30 seconds or so, if I remember well) waawk! sounded just like the somewhat demented whoop! made by the mascot of the Inland Empire [...]
Park slowly healing
14-Nov-07LA Parks and Rec. has reopened the most-used trails above the Observatory, so I can go back and inspect the former nesting area from above, and from the location the masthead photo, above, was shot. The nest actually survived in the top of its tree, but there was a lot of defoliation. I suspect either [...]
Interesting but not surprising.
http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2007/10/city_birds_are_tougher_than_co.php
White-necked ravens
30-Aug-07Film math aig National Geographic / Good movie at National Geographic
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/animals/video/raven_begs_scraps.html
The worst possible news
08-May-07Large areas in Griffith Park have already burned today. Now it appears the fire may be moving around the observatory. The raven in this blog’s masthead photo nests there. This is the worst possible start to a very bad fire season.
Here and there
19-Apr-07Driving towards Koreatown, ran across a raven rooftopping at Kingsley and Beverly. Often see ravens in the Santa Monica / Melrose corridor of Labrea, and yesterday was amused by the single crow mobbing a target hidden to me, which turned out to be a raven. The wind has been very strong, so on the upward [...]
Serial nest builders
13-Apr-07It is April 13 and the poor downtown Hollywood ravens are still trying to get their latest nest finished up. Apparently the fire escape scene has been a bummer, and they are now living in a billboard at Labrea and Hollywood Blvd at the end of the Walk of Fame. I will never be quite [...]
A good omen
10-Apr-07I arrived at my Elysian Park parking on Tuesday night about an hour before Dodger baseball game time, and was delighted to see a flock of ravens - 14-16 or so - circling above Chavez Ravine. Where else should a bunch of teenagers be hanging out?
Hollywood Hills Brush Fire
30-Mar-07Hollywood Hills Brush Fire
Originally uploaded by nailmaker.
And in the midst of the smoke, a raven nest on the LA river.