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Great horned owls invade Los Feliz for Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving in Los Feliz I always look forward to major holidays in Los Angeles because it gets quiet! Even the freeways. All the roads. The quietest time of any week is Sunday evening, but holidays are blanketed as if we had the snow we never get. Yesterday, Thanksgiving, was that quiet. So quiet, that some of the wildlife got overexcited. Did those people LEAVE finally? It was only 6 PM, just an hour after sunset, when I heard two Great Horned Owls singing a duet outside my window! This is NOT a great horned owl! It’s a Snowy Owl from Zurich, from Tambako the Jaguar. He’s at Flickr, and this…
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Halloween blessings and scary stuff in Griffith Park.
I am a Bad, Bad Blogger. But I’m back, so hold your horses. I must tell you about this fascinating FREE seminar given tomorrow, Sat, October 18, at the convenient Riverside Auditorium, on Riverside Drive, right near the 5 entrance, and across the street from the fountain, where cheap people have their weddings. It’s called: Re-Enchanting The City Conference V: Global Climate Change, and will have Dr. Danny Harvey, who worked with Al Gore on his book, and who won a the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore. The emphasis will be on animals, for our park, but heck, we all sweat. It will also include lots of other interesting…
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Jimmy Kimmel is un-American + Tripp Isenhour is a bird killer.
Rob Lowe played for a charity golf tournament in Iowa, and hit and killed a goldfinch with a golf ball. This happened (Defamer) over a year ago, in June of 2007, even making the hit list on TMZ, but on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night, Rob isn’t much of a conversationalist, so this was “new” to us! Photo from this NatureSound site. I’ve never seen a goldfinch out here, but I fed many of them back east. They are sweet, beautiful birds, and are kept as pets in Europe. Here’s a vid of a canary-goldfinch (as they are close enough in genus to breed). So besides killing a protected state…
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Squirrel conquers Silver Lake AND the DWP.
Yes, that is a squirrel on the electric tower. He’s King of the World! Or at least, of Silver Lake. I rarely see squirrels in Los Angeles. I’m not saying they’re an endangered species, but they’re nowhere near as common as skunks, or even coyotes around here. Back east they’re everywhere. (But I miss chipmunks much more!/whine.)
