Survivors - the birds

When one things of Los Angeles, CA one does not think of biriding in that city. I know...I've spent enough time there. You have traffic, smog, people, more traffic, noise and traffic. So imagine my surprise to find people birding in LA...right in the middle of the city!

I'd class these birds survivors! Read on.....

Flights of fancy
Angelenos might see the city as a concrete jungle, but to nearly 500 species of birds and those who watch them, it's a rustic aviary.
By Hugo Martín, Times Staff Writer
March 9, 2006

'DO you hear that?' Bob Shanman asks fervently as he leads a dozen bird-watchers toward a clump of shrubs in the Madrona Marsh Nature Preserve in Torrance. 'That's them!'

His followers, mostly middle-aged birding enthusiasts, rub the sleep out of their eyes as they traipse through one of Southern California's last vernal marshlands, a 50-acre enclosure of marshes and grasslands, ringed by urban sprawl."

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