When I found out the spcaLA (with whom I’m a freshly minted volunteer) was offering by-appointmen-onlly low-cost spaying/neutering, I didn’t hesitate to make a reservation to bring Patches, our newest furry family member (who adopted us last summer more than we did her), to have the procedure done. Of course, that involved the assumption that …
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Back east there’s a large rodent who gets all the glory this time of year for seeing its shadow and predicted six more weeks of bad weather. But here in Los Angeles, our remaining weeks of winter are decidedly less harsh. And since the local marmot population is relegated pretty much to individuals and/or zoological …
Me: You know it was inevitable, right? That I’d duct tape a beat up DV cam to the eyepiece of the spotting scope pointed at the mama-to-be hummingbird and hook it up to a laptop to send images of the nest (with or without the little lady) onto the internut every few seconds. You: Uh, …
G’head call me crazy or paranoid, I can take it. But I took the above photo at 4:27 this afternoon, of that small white single-engine aircraft (whose ID numbers on the fuselage are just beyond readability, dangit) because it has been traveling at low speeds in the same circle at what I’d guesstimate to be …
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While I couldn’t find any listing of it on the LA County Bike Coalition website, I heard it through the blogvine via Green LA Girl that the LACBC is in need of volunteers tomorrow to help count cars whose drivers park them in the first-of-its-kind-in-LA Spring Street buffered bike lane, exactly like this specimen I …
I saw a most amazing thing last weekend. I was up in the rear of of our backyard watching a number of bushtits chirping and flitting through the branches of the unknown flowering tree that’s centrally located back there. Suddenly an Anna’s hummingbird dives in and squares off aggressively against one of the bushies only …
I went to a fight and a hockey game broke out! For the life of me I have never understood why such unchecked criminal violence in hockey is not only tolerated, but so flagrantly condoned — even appreciated! Seriously, the most embarrassing aspect of this video isn’t just the despicable behavior of the players so …