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Warbler Place in the Bird Streets, Hollywood Hills — Orange-crowned Warbler
The Streets

Orange-crowned Warbler · Leiothlypis celata

Warbler Place

Elevation

720 m

A small cul-de-sac variant on Warbler, named for the understated warbler that nests in the hills year-round.

The Resident Cousin

Warbler Place is the cul-de-sac sibling of Warbler Way — a short, private terminus where the enclave turns its back on through-traffic. Its namesake, the Orange-crowned Warbler, is one of the few warblers that stays in Southern California rather than migrating, a quiet, olive-gray bird easily overlooked among the brighter transients. The street shares that quality: it rewards attention. The homes here are fewer and more sequestered, their entrances tucked behind walls and motor courts, and the views arrive framed by mature landscaping rather than open glass.

Stan Lee's Last Perch

9155 Warbler Place was the former home of Stan Lee, the Marvel Comics pioneer whose co-creations—Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Avengers—reshaped twentieth-century popular myth. That a street named for a quietly plumaged warbler should shelter the architect of the modern superhero is a fittingly Bird Streets contradiction: the fantastic, hidden behind a plain gray door.

The Avian Feed

Residences on Warbler Place