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The year of the injured bird

January 4, 2015 by Carolyn Kraft Leave a Comment

The year 2014 has come and gone and soon the year of the horse will come to a close as the Chinese New Year ushers in the year of the sheep on February 19. For me, I’m just hoping the year of the injured bird is over. One of my 2014 New Year’s resolutions was… [read more]

Filed Under: Animal encounters, Birds Tagged With: bid rescue, bird, cormorant, crow, help birds, injured birds, pigeon, rescue

Pigeons nesting the creative way

June 13, 2013 by Carolyn Kraft Leave a Comment

Recently, as I was standing near the beach I happened to notice a very busy pigeon flying back and forth mining the parking islands for choice mulch twigs and pieces of bark. After observing this for awhile, I realized it was a pigeon pair preparing their “love nest” together. Their single-mindedness was impressive. Even though… [read more]

Filed Under: Birds Tagged With: bird, bird nest, nature photography, pigeon, wildlife photography

Track and field pigeon

August 4, 2012 by Carolyn Kraft Leave a Comment

Recently, I saw another odd looking pigeon at the Ahmanson Theater in downtown Los Angeles. As you can tell in the photo above, the pigeon is a pretty amber brown color with white tail feathers. What you can’t tell from the photo is that this pigeon was running all over the place and let me… [read more]

Filed Under: Birds Tagged With: bird, pigeon

Tracking the albino pigeon

July 14, 2012 by Carolyn Kraft 4 Comments

Since the beginning of the year, I’ve been slightly obsessed with an albino pigeon I spotted during the middle of January. Of course at the time I did not have my camera or phone with me since I was out on a walk of the Palms neighborhood (Palms is the oldest community in Los Angeles… [read more]

Filed Under: Birds Tagged With: bird, pigeon

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