Just for a change, it would be fun to note where I see ravens first each day.
Today, LA marathon morning, they are making a big fuss out on Billy Wilder Square. Usually that fuss is reserved for hawks, but as this is nesting season, I think it one territorial pair fussing at an interloper (or [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
14 ravens, many juvenile, in Elysian Park just as Bill indicated, and in spite of my sceptical reaction to his report (I assumed he was seeing crows). After leaving Dodger Stadium and making my way on foot through the vicinity, I came upon the gang hanging around some picnic tables and terrorizing ground squirrels. they [...]
Took a mid-morning hike through RC today, and was rewarded with ample observations, not least of which was the amusing awk! of a fledgling. Eventually his or her voice will change, but right now it sounded far more like a crow - even worse, like a raucous crow fledgling. Nearby were two others - sibling [...]
Runyon Canyon was a giant raven party this morning, with up to eight ravens at a time in flight above the ridges and canyons, mostly occupied in courting behavior, so far as I could tell. Various twosomes and threesomes mostly, favoring the lower ridges and treetop-filled canyons at the border between the mountains and the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
