Griffith Park & Silver Lake Blog.
Posted in Creatures on Jun 22nd, 2008
I’m very concerned about the skunks I’ve seen all over Silver Lake the last two nights. I’m sure it’s because of the heat; think how they must feel in their heavy fur jackets. Please consider putting out pans of water for animals or birds; make a new friend. Even though I live in an apartment, [...]
Posted in Creatures on Jun 13th, 2008
Who’s that knocking at my door? What creature of the night came THISclose to my place the other night? Mysterious animal tracks in the snow not-snow. I think the curved lines on the left bottom might be a tail. Or claws… I was so excited when I saw these paw prints on the floor of [...]
Posted in Creatures on Jun 10th, 2008
Ooh, it makes my blood boil. You know how I feel about bats. When the Times published this article in April, I couldn’t write about it for a while. Too upset. Perhaps you’re thinking, what, is she going to blame DWP for a rabid bat, too? Why yes, I am. Griffith Park visitors found a [...]
Posted in Creatures on Jun 10th, 2008
See, like I promised, Bioblitz did find some rare animals including a bat!!!! LAist reports an interesting story on how expert bat biologist Stephanie Remington taught volunteer bat hunters how to find bats with Anabat devices, to amplify sounds for human ears. Remington concluded that there were four bat species in the park including tiny [...]
Posted in Creatures on May 29th, 2008
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 whole [...]
Posted in Creatures, Everyone's a Photographer on May 28th, 2008
Note to readers: I have so many looking for help for their horse’s injured leg that I’ve updated the info in here. I want all the horses to get better! 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 [...]
