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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 [...]
At dawn today in Hollywood I heard a familiar voice outside, reminding me to blog the story of what I saw in the Del Rey Hills yesterday, mid-afternoon. The Del Rey hills are the bluffs that rise above the Ballona Wetlands in west L.A., south of Marina del Rey. They have been continuously inhabited for [...]
From our correspondent in San Francisco:
Along Ocean beach here in SF which faces the open
Pacific there are about 200 Ravens feeding and
cavorting daily…one roost in Golden Gate Park
must host 150 nightly…and SF is only 49 square
miles.
www.towhee.net
for birding the Bay Area
Sounds like heaven!
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Originally uploaded by AlasdairFitheach.
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. [...]
Late afternoon, partly cloudy and cool. Five ravens playing in the air above the shrink-wrapped high rise on one of the city’s most famous intersections. Shortly after that I caught up with two birds stopping perch for a bit on top of a pair of floodlights that overlook the arclight cinemas courtyard. They were making [...]
Sunday on returning to the Beaudry trailhead on Verdugo’s southern flank, two ravens were hanging out on trees overlooking the catch basin, one on each side. One was making a call I hadn’t heard before - rrak rrak (not unusual) but the slowness of the call was what made it different. Then we saw a [...]
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.
A raven just flew past my window with a chunk of something tasty in its gob, reminding me that this would be a good time to describe the local scene. There are ravens everywhere, every day. Everywhere I go in Hollywood, and everywhere in my own small corner of it. If I’m at home, their [...]
It’s not often I spend a whole day at home here in Billy Wilder Square. With the exception of the early morning, there have been ravens in the vicinity the whole day. There has been one vocalizing loudly nearby for the past half-hour, which strikes me as unusual, unless it actually roosts nearby. The sun [...]
I can see why non sceptics begin to believe in unusual things. I was just going to the movies. I was not looking for ravens, or going to the parks where I can be sure to see them… no, just driving up Fairfax, near Carthay Circle, when one flew low over the street ahead. Soon [...]
