Author; retired University of California Scientific and Medical Editor and Librarian. BA in English Literature with Minors in Chemistry and Psychology at the University of Mary Washington.
This is video of a Raven interacting with a Hawk and Hawk Children, and with me. The setting is Santa Monica Mountains Interagency Visitor Center, Santa Monica Mountains, Los Angeles, California.
There is a Summary after the video …
VIDEO BY ALICE
SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
“Why the Raven Says ‘Stop!'”
By Alice B. Clagett
[CAPTION: Beneath video click ‘…more’ … Scroll down and click ‘Show Transcript’ ]
[CAPTION:Turn your audio up high and listen to the faint clair overlay of Hawks speaking. First it sounds like the huffing wind. Then that sound is joined by Lyric Tenor / Contralto voices.]
Raven to Hawk (barely enunciating): I . LOVE . THAT . HAWK!
Hawk to Raven (in a low, rumbling, good-natured voice): Thank you very much for …
Hawk Children to Raven (in squeaky voices): Thank you …
Alice to Raven: What’s wrong?
Hawk to Raven (continuing): Nothing. My CHIL-dren are SPEAK-ing …
Hawk Children to Raven (continuing): … for that very much.
Raven to Hawk Children: I . GOT . THAT . HAWK.
Hawk to Alice (continuing): … to that Raven.
Alice to Raven: What IS it?
Hawk Children to Raven: Thank you very much!
Hawk to Alice: That Raven is speaking to …
Alice to Raven: What IS it?
Hawk Children to Raven: Thank you very much!
Hawk to Alice (continuing): … the Children of the Hawk.
Raven to Hawk Children: I . GOT . THAT.
Alice to Raven: What, what, what? … [Makes three clicking sounds.]
Raven to Hawk Children: I . GOT . THAT.
Hawk and Hawk Children to Alice: Thank you for explaining that.
Hawk Children: What is that La-dy DO-ing right now?
Hawk to Hawk Children: Don’t WOR-ry about that.
Hawk Children (repeating Hawk): Don’t WOR-ry about that.
Alice to Raven: Heh? [and makes clicking sounds]
Hawk Children (mystified): She sounds like a RA-ven. Oh, God!
Alice to Raven: I have a song for you, Raven. I have a song for you.
Hawk to Alice: You do, do you?
Alice to Raven: The Songbirds like it also.
Hawk Children to Alice: We like Songbirds also.
Alice: They do?
Hawk Children to Alice: Yes. We DO!
Alice sings: I’ve been working on the railroad / All the live long day.
I’ve been working on the rail- …
Raven to Alice: Stop!
Alice (continuing): … -road / Just to pass my time away.
Alice to Raven: Ready?
Hummingbird to Raven: Tell her to stop that. Making that Hawk really angry.
Raven to Alice: i . WILL . SAY . STOP!
Alice sings: Can’t you hear the whistle blowing, / Wake up so early in the morn?
Can’t you hear the captain shouting / Dinah, blow your horn.
Hawk to Alice: The Hawk is flying away. I can’t stand that song.
Alice (continuing): Dinah, Won’t you blow? …
Alice (continuing): Dinah, Won’t you blow? Dinah, Won’t you blow your horn?
Get it?
Alice (continuing): Dinah, Won’t you blow? Dinah, Won’t you blow?
Raven to Alice (upset): Stop!
Alice (continuing): Dinah, Won’t you blow your horn? … Ta daah!
Alice to Raven: What did you think?
Hawk to Alice (from afar): I did not think that that was a good song.
Alice to Raven: There you have it!
Hawk to Alice; Hawk is GOING a-WAY!
Alice to Raven: That’s for you!
Alice to Raven (continuing): That’s for you, Raven. See you later! Bye!
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NOTES
Raven likely needs to be friends with Hawk to prevent Hawk from eating Raven’s children. I don’t provide Raven with food and am not able to offer protection, so I am not an important person to the Raven, especially if I make Hawk angry.
What I first took to be a pugnacious attitude toward me on the part of Raven I now think is the Raven’s attempt to sound fierce and warlike so as to make friends with Hawk.
VIDEO CREDITS
“Why the Raven Says ‘Stop!'”
By Alice B. Clagett
Filmed on 3 March 2026 and produced on 13 March 2026
Location: Santa Monica Mountains Interagency Visitor Center, Santa Monica Mountains, Los Angeles, CA
Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 International –
By Alice B. Clagett
Image: “Ceylon Frogmouth (Batrachostomus moniliger), female and male birds, taken from Thattekad Bird Sanctuary, Kerala, India,” by Satheesan.vn, 15 December 2013, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frogmouth03.jpg … CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported
Image: “Ceylon Frogmouth (Batrachostomus moniliger), female and male birds, taken from Thattekad Bird Sanctuary, Kerala, India,” by Satheesan.vn, 15 December 2013, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frogmouth03.jpg … CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported
Listen twice for the Ro-a-ar! of a Male Mountain Lion on the video!
Notices
Dear Ones,
Today I revised this video, added the Mountain Lion talk to the transcript, and edited the youtube transcript … Listen twice for the Ro-a-ar! of a Male Mountain Lion on the video!
Link: “Raven Talk and Mountain Lion Talk: Franklin Fire – 12 December 2024,” by Alice B. Clagett, filmed on 12 December 2024, produced and published on 20 December 2024, and transcribed on 22 December 2024; youtube transcript edited on 9 March 2026 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-zU5 …
PREP WORK Here are other people’s videos with Mountain Lion roaring sounds …
Video: “Hear the Cougar Roar!” by dholpathakworld, in youtube … https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rqkm6okBVps … COMMENTS: I also hear a rough and tough mezzo-soprano voice saying: “I want OUT OF THIS …D-MN PLACE!” Can you hear it?
Video: “Backyard Growl! Mountain Lion in Santa Barbara!” by AtCatsPeacocks, in youtube … https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KiRE8ebnH_8 … COMMENTS: I also hear a tenor voice say: “I don’t know why you are looking at me when I am going away.” Do you hear it?
Video: “What Does a Mountain Lion Sound Like? (Terrifying Growl of a Cougar),” by Nozy by Natures, in youtube … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScA4Q1fqMvg … COMMENTS: These are clips of different kinds of purrs and growls. Here are the words I hear along with the roaring sounds …
Clip 1 (2 Mountain Lions on a Rock): While roaring, the Mountain Lion on the left says in a low, burred voice: I am snoring now. I am old.
Clip 2: While yawning and roaring the Mountain Lion says: I am yawning.
Clip 3: While walking, the Mountain Lion says: That lady does not love me at ALL. NO, NOT AT ALL!
Clip 4: Who ARE you. [licking lips] Ohhh, I will eat.
Clip 5 (very brief, Mountain Lion approaching from right) and Clip 6: another Mountain Lion walking. The first Mountain Lion (presumably that’s the one) screams: I DON’T LOVE you!
Clip 7 (Mountain Lion with reddish hair growls/purrs): You are looking at me, hoping I will walk along.
God bless you all,
Keep you safe,
And be with you
Through all your days.
In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you.
Listen twice for the Hiss! of the Male Mountain Lion Cub on the video!
Notices
Dear Ones,
Today I revised this video, added the Mountain Lion talk to the transcript, and edited the youtube transcript … Listen twice for the Hiss! of the Male Mountain Lion Cub on the video!
Link: “Mild Geostorm: Raven Talk and Mountain Lion Family Talk,” by Alice B. Clagett, filmed on 17 December 2024 and published on 19 December 2024; revised and youtube transcript edited on 8 March 2026 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-zRN ..
God bless you all,
Keep you safe,
And be with you
Through all your days.
In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you.
Notes for the Rangers at the Paramount Ranch Ranger Station and Malibu Creek State Park At Paramount Ranch: The gentleman who was bedding down in the white storage pod just south of the Ranger Station and barn – The one whose mattress and bedding was in the trash there on 3 March 2026?
My psychic impression that day was this: That gentleman got out of the storage pod at night to relieve himself and the Mountain Lion got him. His body is scattered here and there, as it was shared by the Mountain Lion pride.
I would check for remains in the lee of Sugarloaf Peak, in the low gap between the mountain and the small foothill in front of the mountain, which ends before the flat space in front of the treed borders of Medea Creek.
Hope this makes sense to you. One never knows about messages sent via the astral plane.
Malibu Creek State Park. Also, yesterday, 6 March 2026 at a little after noon I walked halfway to the Visitor Center on Crags Road at Malibu Creek State Park. I was alone, having passed several small parties of people who were heading for the parking lot.
There I got a strong telepathic warning to go back to the trail head. I sensed a large, male Mountain Lion heading down the mountain on the far side of Malibu Creek. Coincidentally I noticed a female Mountain Lion and several others approaching from the cleft in the mountains to the right of Crags Trail.
As I strode briskly back towards the parking lot I noticed a young man talking on a handheld on the right side of the trail. He looked well bred … not homeless … but undernourished.
I looked up and saw two youngish people … whether two men or a man and a woman, I cannot say … converging towards him in the delta on the far side of Malibu Creek.
Shortly along the trail, on my right, along Las Virgenes Creek, I saw a young man with broad shoulders squatting with a handheld, which he held up to take a picture of me.
When I got to the stairs to the parking lot, two rough and strong young men talking in street gang lingo were descending the stairs, so I took the gate route and crossed the road that leads to the campground. As I did so I saw two young men equally strong and rough leaving the restroom area on their way to Crags Road.
I then walked back to my car via Crags Road where it runs on the south side of Parking Lot 3.
I have a concern that single walkers in the afternoon may be picked off in the afternoon by young people looking for spare change. Could that be possible?
Could it be that the Mountain Lions are descending from the mountains in mid-afternoon to look for and to ‘do in’ injured victims of theft?
Could you also check whether the cars of putatively missing and consumed single hikers might be being driven off to a chop shop late in the day on weekday afternoons?
This probably makes no sense at all. Still, I would greatly appreciate your making sure it is not so.
Image: “Red-Breasted House Finch,” by Alice B. Clagett, 3 March 2026, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..
Image: “Red-Breasted House Finch,” by Alice B. Clagett, 3 March 2026, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..
INTRODUCTION
VIDEO BY ALICE
SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
HOUSE FINCH
AUDIO CREDITS
VIDEO CREDITS
MORE INFORMATION
INTRODUCTION
Image: “Paramount Ranch,” by Alice B. Clagett, 3 March 2026, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..
Image: “Paramount Ranch,” by Alice B. Clagett, 3 March 2026, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..
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Dear Ones,
This is an encounter with a Red-Breasted House Finch at Paramount Ranch, Santa Monica Mountains, California. The Finch warns me about a very big Mountain Lion approaching me from the lee of Sugarloaf Peak, from a low gap between the mountain and the small foothill in front of the mountain. Just east of that is the Paramount Ranch Ranger Station.
I didn’t see the Mountain Lion, but the House Finch was so very vocal, and so definite about its being quite close by, and with quite a wicked intent towards me, that I spooked and headed for the car the minute the Finch left in a flurry of its beautiful wings.
At the picnic tables by the Ranger Station was seated a man with a wide-brim hat. Next to him was a German Shepherd with a black head.
After I left there I heard, on the telepathic plane, that the man clairly saw this very big Mountain Lion approaching him and his dog. I asked him to get in his car quickly, but you know how men are! They have their own ideas, and they abide by them.
Consequently, I am not at all certain what happened next. I hope for the best, both for the man and for his very fine German Shepherd.
There is a Summary after the video …
VIDEO BY ALICE
SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
“Red-Breasted House Finch (Roselin familier) Warns of Great, Big Mountain Lion”
By Alice B. Clagett
[CAPTION: Click “Show Transcript.”]\
[CAPTION:Turn Audio Up When House Finch Is Speaking.]
House Finch 1 to House FInch 2 (excited, distraught): Jesus Effing Christ, there’s a great big … GREAT BIG Mountain Lion right there!
House Finch 2 to House FInch 1: What?! What?! Where IS it?
House Finch 1 to House FInch 2: It’s right there.
Raven to House FInches: Stop, stop, stop!
House Finch 2 to House Finch 1: Great Mercy! There’s a quite … quite, quite large Mountain Lion.
House Finch 1 to House Finch 2: I can see it sneaking up. It’s right over there. See it?
House Finch to House Finch 1: It’s right there. Maybe you can’t see it but I … yeppy yep yep … CAN see it. It’s raising its head right over there.
Mountain Lion 1 to House Finch 1 (mildly amused, speaking in a low, deep, rumbling mutter): Don’t tell her anything please. PLEASE don’t talk to her. PLEASE don’t say anything at all.
Mountain Lion 2 (simultaneously): I’m going to EAT her. I’m going to EAT her.
House Finch to Alice (simultaneously): There it goes again. EAT-ing her! EAT-ing her! See it?
House Finch 2 (turning its head to look at me), speaking to House FInch 1: Jesus Christ, She can’t even SEE it! Sweet Jesus, It says its going to EAT you. I can’t stand it. It’s going to EAT YOU.
Alice to House Finch: Kind of pretty bird!
House Finch 2 to House Finch 1: Jesus Effing Christ, She really can’t see ANYTHING.
Alice to House Finch 2: Are you a Red Grosbeak?
Mountain Lion 1 to Alice (laughing in a low, rumbling voice): RIGHT! THAT’S it!
House Finch 2 to Alice: We’re HOUSE Finches!
House Finch 2 (looking at Alice), and speaking to House Finch 1: She doesn’t even know what type of Bird is here!
Alice to House Finch 2: I see.
House Finch 2 to Alice: Jesus CHRIST! DON’T SAY IT!
Thoroughly consternated, House Finch 2 flies off.
Alice to Readers: That bird right there said, “There’s a great, big Mountain Lion right over there, on that tall mountain there.” That’s Paramount Mountain. [No, That’s Sugarloaf Peak at Paramount Ranch.]
Other House Finches beg Alice not to say that.
Alice to Readers: But you can’t see it right now, it said, …
Raven: Stop, stop!
Alice to Readers (continuing): … because it’s hiding between this and the place that goes down after that, and then it goes back up again. And it’s hiding in between.
Mountain Lion (in a low growl, suppressing anger): It knows where we live!
House Finches, greatly alarmed, beg Alice not to say that.
House Finch 1 to Alice: Can’t you see how angry it’s getting?
Alice to Readers: Do you understand? [I’m speaking of the lee of Paramount Ranch Sugarloaf Peak, from a low gap between the mountain and the small foothill in front of the mountain. Just north-northeast of that is the Paramount Ranch Ranger Station.]
Finch 1 to other Finches: Christ! He will eat her up right, right there!
Mountain Lion 1 (feeling jolly): Yes! He WILL eat her up.
Alice to Readers: I was right over here. [Shows path heading south along Medea Creek), ..
House Finch 1 to other House Finches (sarcastically): She says, “Right over HERE,” VERY good. She’s describing it.
Alice to Readers (continuing): … I was going down this way, and that Bird said, “Don’t go any farther!” …
Mountain Lion 1: I’ll be.
House Finch 1 to Alice: She CER-tainly DID!
Alice to Readers (continuing): … Not only that, there’s a CRICKET over here … [Shows grass to left of trail.]
Cricket to Alice: That’s … right. There’s a … CRICKET.
Alice to Readers: Cricket said …
House Finch 3: She hears it!
House Finch 1: Right!
Cricket to Alice: That’s … right, … I’m a …. Cricket. [And I said:] Don’t … go … over …. there. … Don’t … go … there.
Alice to Readers (repeating what Cricket said): “Don’t … go … any … higher. … Don’t … go ….” Can you hear it? They’re all so insistent!
Mountain Lion 1 to Alice: Yes, they ARE.
[Ranger station is in the background, on the right.]
Alice to Readers: Well, The Red Grosbeak [whoops; it’s a House Finch] just flew off. It said, “I can’t bear to watch this thing.”
House Finch 2 to Alice: Yes, it @#$! !@# DID!
[Alice: Ouch!]
Alice to House Finch 2: Why not? What’s up?
House FInch 2 to Alice: It’s . Getting ….
Alice to House Finch 1: It’s getting closer?!
House Finch 2 to Alice (continuing): … Closer.
Alice to Readers: Ok. So I have to walk back to the car. The car is right here. It’s at the visitor center [Ranger Station] right here.
Alice to Readers (continuing): See? This is so surreal!
Alice to Readers (continuing): That Red Grosbeak [no, it’s a House Finch] really knows what’s up!
Alice to Readers (continuing): And the Cricket knows what’s up. I don’t know what to do!
Cricket to Alice: Thank … you … for … mentioning … me.
Alice to Readers (continuing): They say that the great, big Mountain Lion is getting closer …
Alice to Readers (continuing): … from the Paramount Mountain [Sugarloaf Peak, on which the Paramount logo may have been modeled] over there … a very famous mountain …
Alice to Readers (continuing): … And it has to be a very famous Mountain Lion … probably the MOST famous …
Alice to Readers (continuing): … I think we’d better get going.
God bless you all, and keep you safe, and be with you through all your days.
In love, Light and joy, this is Alice B. Clagett. I Am of the Stars … and so are you!
Come and visit me at my wonderful, world class, WordPress website, …
House Finch 2 to Alice: He’s right over there.
Mountain Lion to Alice (feeling amused): I’m right over here.
House Finch 2 (chuckling): VERY FUNNY! She thinks it’s really funny!
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Filmed on 3 March 2026 and published on 7 March 2026; youtube transcript edited on 7 March 2026
Image: “Sugarloaf Mountain at Paramount Ranch,” by Alice B. Clagett, 3 March 2026, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..
Image: “Sugarloaf Mountain at Paramount Ranch,” by Alice B. Clagett, 3 March 2026, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..
HOUSE FINCH
The House Finch star of this movie has several names. Someone told the House Finch at my house that it is a Grosbeak. That is not so. As the House Finch at Paramount Ranch explained, it’s true name is House Finch.
Because I find this Finch so fetching, so very endearing, I call it by these names: Red-Breasted House Finch, Roselin familiar, and Fair Rose My Friend.
These names reminded me of the old-fashioned song “My Wild Rose” by Edward MacDowell, so I added the instrumental audio of that song to this video.
AUDIO CREDITS
Audio: “To a Wild Rose,” by Edward MacDowell, Sketch No. 1 from “Woodland Sketches, Op. 51,”
1896, Chase Coleman (piano), from IMSLP … “Free Recordings” (public domain or licensed under Creative Commons)
“To a Wild Rose”
By Edward MacDowell
Lyrics
“Come, oh, songs! come, oh, dreams!
Soft the gates of day close,
Sleep, my birds, sleep, streams!
Sleep, my wild rose!
Pool and bud, hill and deep,
You who wore my robes, sleep!
Droop, East! die, West!
Let my land rest.
Woods, I woke your boughs!
Hills, I woke your elf-throngs!
Land, All thy hopes and woes
Rang from me in songs!
Come, oh, songs! Come, oh, dreams!
In our house is deep rest!
Through the pines gleams, gleams,
Bright the gold West.
There the flutes shall cry,
there the viols weep.
Laugh my dreams, and sigh!
Sing and vigil keep,
Awake, wild rose.”
VIDEO CREDITS
“Red-Breasted House Finch (Roselin familier) Warns of Great, Big Mountain Lion”
By Alice B. Clagett
Filmed on 3 March 2026 and produced on 7 March 2026
Location: Paramount Ranch, Santa Monica Mountains, Los Angeles, CA
Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 International –
By Alice B. Clagett
There is a very nice recording of the song in the video … maybe with slightly different words … here …
Video: “O A WILD ROSE 🌹MacDowell Original Lyrics Words text trending 1896 sing along song music,” by Szabo Music, 20 April 2024 … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6F3TpN5Xu0 ..
Audio: “To a Wild Rose,” by Edward MacDowell, Sketch No. 1 from “Woodland Sketches, Op. 51,” 1896, Chase Coleman (piano), from IMSLP … “Free Recordings” (public domain or licensed under Creative Commons)
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