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	<title>Three Star Owl - Functional and Sculptural Clay Artwork with a Natural History &#187; environment/activism/politics</title>
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	<description>Three Star Owl clay studio</description>
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		<title>Four calling owls, three quail hens, two Inca doves&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:10:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;and a Phainopepla in a Palo Verde tree.
As around the turn of every new year, Christmas Bird Counts are happening across America.  Under the auspices of the Audubon Society winter bird distribution and population information is compiled, collected by volunteers, most of whom are not ornithologists but people with a non-professional &#8212;  although sometimes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Many thanks to everyone&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;who stopped by to visit Three Star Owl at the Audubon Arizona Gifts from Nature fundraiser and show in Scottsdale this Friday and Saturday.  The rain stayed away, and it was nice to see everyone out and about!  Special thanks to everyone at Audubon Arizona, for once again wrangling a great show!
(photo: smoke-fired coati effigy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Announcing the next Three Star Owl event:</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Audubon Arizona&#8217;s Gifts from Nature fundraiser.
Save the date!  Coming up quickly on the 11th and 12th of December, at the Cattletrack Compound in Scottsdale:

The Friday evening event is a festive preview and advance sale, with music, hors d&#8217;oevres, wine and hot cider.  It&#8217;s $25 per person (call for reservations, 602-468-6470 ext. 103). The Saturday public [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mesquite meal fest</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/mesquite-meal-fest</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/mesquite-meal-fest#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve been trying to Green Up around here.  In addition to starting up a composting system for garden waste and kitchen scraps, as well as having plans for an herb and chile garden to use the compost on, we recently went to a mesquite-pod milling event.
Left: dried mesquite pods
Mesquite pods and seeds are really hard.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is this the offending foam?</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/is-this-the-offending-foam</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:11:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On last weekend&#8217;s trip to the Oregon coast, E and I noticed the beaches were festooned with unsupported sea-foam, churned up by the waves.  This might have been the slimy foam that&#8217;s currently causing major problems for sea birds along the Oregon coast.  The foam, a result of an off-shore algal bloom, coats the bird&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who needs vultures?  Everybody needs vultures!</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/who-needs-vultures-everybody-needs-vultures</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 01:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[International Vulture Awareness day is Sept. 5
Vultures and condors are really useful in your niche or ecosystem.  What to do with that pesky roadkill, thawed winterkill, shot-winged quarry, victims of natural disaster, contagion, or warfare, or any other squishy, odiferous and past-its-prime meaty object?  Just leave it to vultures &#8212; it&#8217;s easy, quick, FREE, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is birding green?</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/environmentactivism/is-birding-green</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/environmentactivism/is-birding-green#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:41:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Telegraph website of the UK has posted a short column hastily summarizing a research paper concluding that Birding Is Not Green, especially competitive birding and twitching.  The Telegraph article is not very in-depth, refers mostly to Britain (although the issues are largely common to the US as well, and the primary author is at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Presidential Motorcade&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/environmentactivism/the-presidential-motorcade</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/environmentactivism/the-presidential-motorcade#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:43:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;just passed within a block of our house!
Turns out the street at the edge of our neighborhood &#8212; two houses away from ours &#8212; is a convenient north-south thoroughfare for Leaders of the Free World on their way between Sky Harbor Airport and resort row up on the shoulders of Camelback Mountain.  George W. Bush [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feral Quadrupeds of Interest</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/feral-quadrupeds-of-interest</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/feral-quadrupeds-of-interest#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 06:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an earlier post, there was an oblique mention of seeing &#8220;Feral Quadrupeds of Interest&#8221;.  These would be the wild burros who live in the desert around Lake Pleasant, Arizona.
On our hike the other day, E and I encountered a small group of them.  They are often described as &#8220;more likely to be heard than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biomimicry: when Monkey-see-Monkey-do is a good thing</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/biomimicry-when-monkey-see-monkey-do-is-a-good-thing</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/biomimicry-when-monkey-see-monkey-do-is-a-good-thing#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday night E and I heard a biomimicry expert speak at ASU.  Her name is Janine Benyus, and she&#8217;s a natural history author who&#8217;s been documenting the emerging cross-disciplinary field of biomimicry.  Before hearing her talk, I had a very primitive notion of biomimicry: &#8220;Dude, did you know a spider&#8217;s silk is 10 times stronger [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Serious stuff: Trouble Brewing in Arizona&#8217;s education budget</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/environmentactivism/serious-stuff-trouble-brewing-in-arizonas-education-budget</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/environmentactivism/serious-stuff-trouble-brewing-in-arizonas-education-budget#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our progressive Democratic governor, Janet Napolitano (now in Washington as Secretary of Homeland Security) hasn&#8217;t been out of the state for five minutes, and the conservative, small-government, small-minded cabal is already Brewing up trouble for our state&#8217;s educational system.
I am not a terribly political creature, and I don&#8217;t intend Three Star Owl to be a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s finally now, now!</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/environmentactivism/its-finally-now-now</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:07:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Smart is the new mighty.
Here&#8217;s a link to the transcript of the Inaugural Address on NPR&#8217;s website. Better yet, hear the address as Pres. Obama gave it: there&#8217;s a link on the NPR page you can click on to hear him speak it.  It&#8217;s strong, inclusive, thoughtful, and focused, and meant for all of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Couch&#8217;s spadefoots: Tons of tiny toadlets!</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/three-star-owl/couchs-spadefoots-tons-of-tiny-toadlets</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/three-star-owl/couchs-spadefoots-tons-of-tiny-toadlets#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Kathy gave me a bucket of toads.  Twenty five tiny toads, actually Couch&#8217;s spadefoots (Scaphiopus couchii) to be precise.  Spadefoots are toadlike amphibians, with their own family, Pelobatidae (see etymological note below). They&#8217;re native to the Sonoran desert, and their reproductive cycle is timed to take advantage of summer monsoon rains, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accidental residents: reddish egrets and green sea turtles</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/three-star-owl/accidental-residents-reddish-egrets-and-green-sea-turtles</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/three-star-owl/accidental-residents-reddish-egrets-and-green-sea-turtles#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:40:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just returned from a visit to the parental home in coastal Orange County California, where my mother still lives.  The house is walking distance from the beach &#8212; all during the Labor Day weekend, we could smell the beach fires and hear the engines of small planes dragging ad banners low along the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poor Old Papago Park</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/poor-old-papago-park</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/poor-old-papago-park#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 04:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my simple pleasures is going on early morning walks with E around the buttes in Papago Park.  We can walk there from our house, and though the walks are for health, we always make note of birds and the other animals we see.

 A first impression of this landscape is accurate: a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Special project: Sky Island Alliance Citizen Awards</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/special-project-sky-island-alliance-citizen-awards</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/special-project-sky-island-alliance-citizen-awards#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:17:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this year, Sky Island Alliance presented their second annual Citizen Awards to people and businesses who have shown distinction in achievement, support or activism in the international environmental arena of the embattled Sonoran ecosystem. Instead of traditional trophies, SIA commissioned custom handmade plaques from Three Star Owl to honor the recipients.  Each one [...]]]></description>
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