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LADWP causes bird loss in Silver Lake.
Great blue herons kicked out of Silver Lake. I went over to Silver Lake right before I got sick, to take some photos of the lake as it was refilling. I had seen this sign up on the fence a couple of days earlier; SOMEONE took it down since I took the photo. It has the name of the photographer on the side: J. M. Harrison, and it was posted, not surprisingly, at the street corners of Hawick and West Silverlake Drive. I understand what Mr. or Ms. Harrison was trying to do: very subtly tell the community that because Silver Lake was drained during the nesting and migrating season…
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Neigh.
The last time I rode a horse I got thrown off. It was up in the Beachwood Canyon Stables, on a very beautiful trail in gp, with the steepest drops on either side you can imagine (which looked much higher sitting 4 feet up, on 4 feet). It was almost (his) dinnertime, I found out later, and Brownie was in no mood for me. From the very beginning he wouldn’t trot, kept walking underneath very low hanging tree branches so I almost got swept off the saddle, and kept stopping to eat grass. When he actually bucked and threw me off I was so shocked I can still remember the…
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Part 3 of animals(bats). Vampires not included.
Bats. I look forward to the Science File in the LA Times each Saturday! It’s only one section of a page, (and this weekend it’s only ONE item, bummer) but it’s usually an interesting little roundup of natural history, physics, and other tidbits. Sad news here, that bats are dying of a mysterious illness. The Times doesn’t have a very good link, so here’s a better one from Boston. Bats are dying off by the thousands as they hibernate in caves and mines around New York and Vermont, sending researchers scrambling to find the cause of a mysterious condition dubbed “white nose syndrome.” [snip] The bat die-off has some eerie…
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(Mountain) Lions and tigers and bears, oh my! Part 2 (opossums and bad cats.)
Opossums. Speaking of lao, Kevin always finds the interesting stuff happening around LA! He has a poem, yes, a poem, by Larry Levis, about an opossum trying to cross a busy Santa Monica street, poor thing. He found it in another blog, The Millennial Pedestrian. The Oldest Living Thing in L.A. By Larry Levis At Wilshire & Santa Monica I saw an opossum Trying to cross the street. It was late, the street Was brightly lit, the opossum would take A few steps forward, then back away from the breath Of moving traffic. People coming out of the bars Would approach, as if to help it somehow. It would lift…
