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Waiting for Angel Bats in Griffith Park.
This is a preview of my Upcoming Attraction blog post on: Hunting bats in Griffith Park! That alone is probably enough to get your blood boiling, but one of my fellow bat hunters, Gerry Hans, co-chair of the PROS committee, noticed something else, or 2 something elses, in his bat searching area. I’m not sure I would have seen these toads myself (though I hope I would have. Did I ever mention that I have night blindness? Oh, yes, tripping over every tent spike in Girl Scout camp, that is me. But of course that has NOTHING to do with why I like bats.) Photo by Gerry Hans. Toad climbs…
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Translator needed for LA Times Opinion piece on chickens.
UPDATED: here. Ooh, good, I thought. An opinion on chickens. This is something I might want to read understand. Photo credit: Compassion Over Killing. I appreciate the humane way the HSUS treats photographers, too, by giving them proper credit. Chicken Run, by Julia Olmstead, is about an initiative by the Humane Society to outlaw battery cages for farm animals. If we’re going to eat eggs, I think the chickens that lay them should be able to stretch their wings, stand up and turn around, and not be caged. So I buy cage-free eggs, and I’m not alone. Demand for these eggs has outpaced supply in the last few years. So…
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Silver Lake heron photographer found alive and well!
Well, looks like I was right! How very satisfying. After I posted my second blog last week about the missing great blue heron photographer, who posted her photographs publicly on the slk reservoir fence, she wrote in my comments this weekend! Go here to read all by Joan M. Harrison, the photographer. Once again, ye olde heron poster. Basically, she is an artist who really cares about these birds, and doesn’t care at all about slk politics. How interesting that the CSSLR dragged her into the Meadows fight, without any proof or even logic. CurbedLA stepped up the fight to ringside status. Some of Joan’s thoughts: I appreciate your thoughtful…
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Silver Lake herons in an alternate universe.
Another Silver Lake, another heron. Photo COPYRIGHT by the talented Michael S. Palmer. Michael took this in St Helens, WA. But I can see snow mountains like this (for a few weeks a year) in Silver Lake, and if they leave the Meadow alone, this could be slk soon, if dwp does what it PROMISED! Because I usually hum along with the sing-song voices in my head, I don’t always pay attention to what the outside world is doing. For instance, I was delighted to find the signs about missing herons along the fence of slk one night, and went back to take pictures a couple of days later. It…
