may 6
To add to the bird list from the canyon:
Red-shouldered Hawk
Common Raven
Violet-green Swallow
Brewer’s Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
+ numbers of Black-headed Grosbeaks, an interesting warbler sp. lost in the thick of the oaks (amazing how dense those leaves are), and Alligator Lizard. Also an ominous rattling up against the canyon wall that likely was a rattlesnake but honestly could also have been a California Ground Squirrel with a death rattle, and one Coyote with a dead black and white fuzzy cat in its mouth…
May 7th, 2008 09:30
Notch one for the coyotes. Eaton Canyon is great.
May 7th, 2008 20:19
Being a CAT person, I’m not that all so knocked out that a coyote got the cat, BUT that’s what comes of letting your cat out in such a location…or any location for that matter, being subsidized predators. Here, it’s not only coyotes but FISHERS that have come into the city and taken up residence at select locations. Fishers eat cats like popcorn. Then there’s Great Horned Owls, dogs, you name it. It’s a dangerous world for cats outdoors now.
Nice migration movement here today, which will now be stalled by the incoming front.
Just interviewed Jenny 8 Lee and Marcus du Sautoy. You could not ask for two more radically different people: SHE: Chinese American Val Girl-sounding (oh, my god!) living in New York, has written a great book on the history of everything to do with American Chinese Food, even the containers. HE: Oxford don of mathemetics who works with objects in 196,883 DIMENSIONS (ie “The Monster”) talks about JS BACH, Coldplay and why so many mathematicians appear to have Aspergers. Great books both.
Question: this has to do with material put out by Canton: would you call Charley Harper’s work MODERNIST? And if so, in what sense?
Mark