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-08White-necked ravens
30-Aug-07Film math aig National Geographic / Good movie at National Geographic
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/animals/video/raven_begs_scraps.html
Fashion raven / fitheach fasanta
21-Feb-07Fashion raven / fitheach fasantaOriginally uploaded by AlasdairFitheach.
The billboard reads “hip has found a home” but I’d call that “chic” wouldn’t you? Anyway it is about nesting season, so maybe this raven is considering a condo down the street. I’d been taking pictures of it for a few minutes, and it decided to take a [...]
Various locations
09-Jan-07Despite the furious windstorm in the Cajon Pass just before New Year’s, there they were, a pair of birds above the 210 at about 20 meters, managing to soarcle just to make sure I didn’t begin to believe that ravens stayed home during the Santa Ana Winds here. Ravens above the 210 along the Cajon [...]
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 [...]
Up, up, and away
17-Nov-05Today they did the opposite - seven ravens soaring above Hollywood, south to north, roughly over LaBrea (really to the west, but drifting east as they approached Runyonwards). Late morning, hot with mostly clear skies. This was very similar to the soaring group of a dozen or so that I saw above Redlands last Saturday, [...]
Black specks in Hollywood
04-Nov-05There are at least four ravens in this photo - honest!
Here’s a much better one:
Click on the photos to see many more from that day at Flickr. Wine lovers might be interested to see the vineyard recently established by a homeowner - it is just west of the Hollywood sign.
Hooray for Toyon-wood
25-Oct-05The 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 [...]
L’chaim to ravens everywhere
13-Oct-05Walking through Hollywood on Yom Kippur in search of ravens can’t help but remind one of the appearances of ravens in the books of the law and the prophets as carried through history by the Jewish people. As I was walking west to La Cienaga and Holloway to see if that really is a full-time [...]
Raven Holiday
11-Oct-05Saturday - ravens galore. Visitors to Barney’s Beanery should keep their eyes open. Maybe it’s the spirit of Sal Mineo. This was one of a pair seen in both the morning and the afternoon at LaCienega and Holloway. I’d gone back to take photos of where they *had* been, and they appeared right above [...]