The murder in Noble Park, Hermosa Beach
Crows are protecting their nests, bird expert Bob Shanman says by Kevin Cody Danielle Cohen had just opened her father Harold’s La Playita restaurant for breakfast, when a frightened man ran in from the street. He told her he was being chased by crows. Cohen was not surprised. La Playita, on 14th Street, is next to Noble Park, home to an aggressive murder of crows who live in the park’s palm trees. (Murder is the ornithological term for a flock of crows.) Cohen told the man a Noble Park crow hit her on the top of the head last summer. “Fortunately, I had my hair in a bun. The bun saved me,” she said. People struck by Noble Park crows say the birds attack silently from behind. Noble Park crows appear particularly aggressive towards people walking dogs. The first time Patricia Harrison, who lives on a nearby walk street, was hit by a park crow, she was standing with her shih tzu, Sam, under the bottle brush tree with the tire swing. “I thought the kids shooting hoops in the alley missed the backboard,” she said. More recently, while Sam was sniffing under another tree in the park, crows hit Harrison in the back of the head twice in rapid succession. “Walking Sam in the park used to…
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