Photo Gallery: Deukmejian Wilderness Park is for the birds

With temperatures reaching well into the 80’s, even the birds seem to want a little relief from the heat by staying in the shade, like this wintering Golden-crowned sparrow at Deukmejian Wilderness Park in Glendale on Wednesday, January 4, 2011. Temperatures are predicted to drop over the weekend.  (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)

With temperatures reaching well into the 80’s, even the birds, like this Red-crowned parrot, seem to want a little relief from the heat by staying in the shade of a large pine tree on the 4600 block of Dunsmore Ave. near Deukmejian Wilderness Park in Glendale on Wednesday, January 4, 2011. Temperatures are predicted to drop over the weekend.  (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)

A wintering juvenile Golden-crowned sparrow feeds at the end of a lawn at Deukmejian Wilderness Park in Glendale on Wednesday, January 4, 2011. Temperatures are predicted to drop over the weekend.  (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)

With temperatures reaching well into the 80’s, even the birds, like these Red-crowned parrots, seem to want a little relief from the heat by staying in the shade of a large pine tree on the 4600 block of Dunsmore Ave. near Deukmejian Wilderness Park in Glendale on Wednesday, January 4, 2011. Temperatures are predicted to drop over the weekend.  (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)