Before you go notating that this blown-out low-resolution image of our local (and notoriously hard-to-capture sitting still) Cooper’s hawk in a pine tree a block away won’t drop any jaws over at National Geographic’s photo office, please understand I pixelized this predator by aiming my point-‘n-shooter through the eyepiece of my handheld binoculars, and frankly …
Outside my office window on Christmas Eve in surprise I spied bits of white suddenly drifting by on the breeze. I wondered: snow? But the answer: no. Instead it was feathers — lots of them floating on the current, and shortly thereafter I found the source of the stuff in a peregrine falcon that had …
I almost wasn’t going to post about this old gal, because people can only take so many bummers and I’ve been writing about quite a few of them lately. But just as I can’t not stop and offer help, so can I not keep my own personal spotlight shining on the growing problem of abandoned …
I put this up on LA Metblogs, but given my last couple posts about animal interventions I’d be totally remiss if I didn’t include this unique bunny encounter from Friday night here:
Literally a day after yesterday’s failed attempt to help out a lost dog in Jefferson Park, comes this morning’s success story, and one much closer to home. Two blocks away even, at the intersection of London and Bellevue. The encounter with the young pit bull pictured above had all the makings of a repeat performance …
What you’re seeing in the photo above is the end of my attempt this morning to help this half-starved and lost pit bull. At this point we’re at St. Andrews and 36th, a couple blocks south of Jefferson, which is where I first sighted her a couple minutes earlier. We were both westbound on the …
A not-quite-so still life of Ranger’s far wetter-than-usual morning constitutional: