I've lived in Encino for fourteeen years or so, a mile from the Sepulveda Wildlife Preserves, but I never went down into them until last week. I spent four hours over two days and shot more than a thousand pictures. There's an unlikely little creek that runs alongside and eventually empties into the L.A. river, and built into it here and there along its banks are these little dugouts. I don't know how they develop but later on I saw baby cranes in one. I wanted to get close enough to shoot but I didn't want to scare the birds.
There are a lot of cranes out there.
Jessica - ONE of my kids' eight or nine essential textbooks this semester cost $129 at the student store, but at Amazon I got that one, plus another PLUS expedited shipping for $103. Just another option for the rest of you struggling students out there.
