Going out to Huntington Gardens today with my agent–hoping to see one of the feral breeding populartion of Yellow-Chevroned Parakeets. That’d be a really cool lifer! (Not as cool as seeing them in their actual native habitat would be, but once they’re an established population, they count.) Saw a cool bird called a Phainopepla yesterday, […]
Monthly Archives: May 2007
Another gorgeous day in L.A. The climate is so stupidly beautiful and constant that I can see how people stop noticing it. It’s like having a painting on the wall–even if it’s a Van Gogh, sooner or later it stops registering. Ho hum, another spectactular day. Yawn. Went for a hike. Saw a lot of […]
Man, with all the food around here, I’m amazed these women stay so skeletal. Either they spend all day at the gym, or…well, apparently bulimia is rampant out here. Good lord. And the prices would make a skunk blush. Still, since other people are payin’ for it…I’m walking out to Runyon Canyon every day, in […]
So a buddy of mine is planning a move to San Jose and asked me to come with her. I’m about sold on the idea, especially hanging around the Mediterranean climate out here. God, I miss that. And there’s really nothing for me in North Carolina except my friends, and since my best friend’s movin’–eh, […]
Holy shit. Holy, holy, holy shit. It is not possible that I just saw what I saw. I mean, I don’t even believe me, and I was here for it. I was hanging out on the back porch, binoculars in hand, trying to tell hummingbirds apart, and I heard a squirrel going apeshit in a […]
So far, I’ve been adding a bird a day since I got here. Yesterday’s was the Western Scrub-Jay, and today I was privileged to see two Bullock’s Orioles go flying by. (There aren’t many unfamiliar birds I could ID from a fly-by like that, but big, black and yellow, with white wing patches like a […]
Well, tonight I had an…”adventure” is probably too strong a word. I was sitting around, typing, working up a storm. My charming celebrity host was off at a seminar about helping abused children. I was plugging away, tea in hand, when I heard a fire engine. Now, this wouldn’t normally be an issue. I’ve heard […]
The second day of my Hollywood adventure! In the last twenty-four hours, I’ve walked down Hollywood Blvd, which has all th stars in it (I haven’t heard of half the actors, but a couple of ’em were familiar.) had a truly fabulous cheeseburger (They sold Kobe beef burgers. Good lord.) seen more black Land Rovers […]
I have arrived! Without going into too many details, I’m staying in Hollywood (and by that, I mean I can walk out on the back porch and stare directly across the valley at the Hollywood sign. It’s pretty swank.) The view is tremendous. The birding also promises to be good–already got a Wilson’s warbler (lifer) […]
So I took a walk around Shelley Lake this morning, figuring that I won’t get a chance for another three weeks. I was down the little side path that I like to go down, which has lately been inaccessible, due to a broody goose and her protective mate. Fortunately, the goslings have hatched, and life […]