Griffith Park, Interrupted

I see that LA Curbed talks about the bird balls soon to be thrown in Ivanhoe Reservoir. Finally! I am not alone!

White bags filled with black bird balls of doom on the north end of Silver Lake.
The title there is punnish (which I hate), but they always have good comments at LA Curbed. I photographed [...]

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LADWP is spending a cool $2 million on bird balls to repel birds from Silver Lake and Echo Park Lake. I talk about why this is a bad idea here. Longterm: bad environment, money down the drain, possible health problems, bad practices. Short term is obvious, of course: that it eliminates birds from the [...]

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Note to readers: I have so many guests coming to read the answer that I’ve updated the info in here. Best wishes to everyone.
When I saw the picture of Eight Belles on the ground, of course I immediately thought of Barbaro. Like so many, I cried when they finally put him down, after real efforts [...]

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I’ve never really understood why blogs feel the necessity to put down the MSM all the time. And locally, that means the Times. Of course, there is a lot that I disagree with, and part of that is their slant, but I still respect it, read it, and enjoy some of it.

Gruesome photo of Eight [...]

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I went to hear a panel of journalists talking about blogs and investigative journalism last week at the LA Press Club, and I realized, Hey! That’s me! I was so furious about the fire in gp a year ago that took FOUR DAYS to put out, that I started this blog. If you were around [...]

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Be your own Indiana Jones and discover rare species in SoCal parks in a supercool event this weekend: Bioblitz. Anyone can sign up to go out with a scientist or naturalist to hunt for mammals, reptiles, butterflies, moss, ferns, birds, etc, in any park that’s listed! They even have night hunts for owls and bats! [...]

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