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	<title>Three Star Owl - Functional and Sculptural Clay Artwork with a Natural History &#187; increments</title>
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		<title>Not my hen</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anna&#8217;s hummers are capable of setting clutches just about year round in warm climate states like Arizona and California.  The little males have been doing their combo territorial and courtship dives &#8212; which culminate in a loud, popping &#8220;CHEEP&#8221; sound &#8211; since December, at least in our neighborhood.  This little Hen in Tucson has gotten [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moonshots</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/moonshots</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 17:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the total lunar eclipse from the Phoenix area this morning, just before totality.  The desert skies were clear, so that we had a wonderful dark sky view of the first half of the event.  But totality began right at sunrise, so just as the whole moon was shadowed, it sank in a sky too [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Potter</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/another-potter</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2011 17:40:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a slightly arty image of an un-opened Potter Wasp nest on the front wall of our house, with a drawing pencil for scale.  Click here for more info on what these tiny clay pots are, and why the wasps build them.  One of these days, I hope to be in the right place in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New out of the box</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/new-out-of-the-box</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 03:21:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Though the lady bug life cycle has been covered here before, I can&#8217;t resist posting this photo of a brand new Lady Bird Beetle and its recently exited pupal casing.
>> the bug and the box it came in.  Click to enlarge, it&#8217;s a nice big file (photo A.Shock).

Just a couple of days ago, I&#8217;d [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Hidden Egg</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/the-hidden-egg</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2011 15:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This time of year the world is pregnant with nests full of eggs, tiny cottontails hopping and hiding in the yard, fledgling birds following their parents food-begging insistently, new yellow-green leaves and catkins on the mesquite trees, and glorious cactus blooms.
&#60;&#60; Praying mantis egg-case on a Palo Verde twig (photo E.Shock).  &#62;&#62; close-up of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heretofore missing eggs</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/heretofore-missing-eggs</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 19:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last fall our herb garden hosted a successful crop of parsley, cilantro, and Lady bird beetles (AKA Lady bugs).  But we only noticed the bounty of bugs when we found roving hordes of hungry beetle larvæ voraciously devouring hapless aphids.  Pictures of the process of larval metamorphosis were captured  and posted here, but all the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where are the Owl Hives?</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/where-are-the-owl-hives</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 18:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Owl Hives are in Chandler.
On Friday night, March 18, the All AZ Clay Invitational Exhibition opened at the Chandler Center for the Arts, displaying the work of more than 40 clay artists from all over the state of Arizona.  Among them is an installation of artefaux by me, entitled Assemblage: Owl Hives.
&#62;&#62; Assemblage: Owl [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hen Triumphant!</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/hen-triumphant</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve been watching a hummingbird Hen &#8212; we think she&#8217;s an Anna&#8217;s (Calypte anna) &#8212; on a nest since the middle of February.  Lots of people have passed close to her chosen spot, which was fairly low in a crooked Aleppo pine in our backyard, right over a gravel path through the side of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I know where the Hen she sits&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/i-know-where-the-hen-she-sits</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/i-know-where-the-hen-she-sits#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 01:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;and also why it&#8217;s called &#8220;Broad-billed&#8221;.
Although those two statements concern two different birds.
Update: as of Friday morning, &#8220;Bill&#8221;, the Broad-billed hummingbird, is still reporting in to our backyard feeders, passing the 72-hour mark (I first observed him on Monday afternoon).  We guess he&#8217;ll be here until he&#8217;s not!
Breeding season for Anna&#8217;s hummers is in full [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Beastly Details</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/the-beastly-details</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 22:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Beasties are coming!
Here is a close-up of the finished surfaces of the same Beastie Pitchers shown in raw clay a couple of posts ago.  They, and other functional and sculptural ware, will be offered for sale at the upcoming Three Star Owl Open Studio, coming toward the end of this month!  Stay tuned for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beasties in the Raw</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/beasties-in-the-raw</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 21:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the Return of the Beastie Pitcher!  For those of you familiar with Three Star Owl &#8220;Beastie Ware&#8221; &#8212; functional clayware that looks like it might nip your fingers, or wrestle the napkin holder to the ground &#8212; here&#8217;s a march of the beastie pitchers: three in-progress, highly textured pitchers in various stages of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The unfinished hive</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/the-unfinished-hive</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/the-unfinished-hive#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:41:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What if you had to raise large numbers of owls, herds of owls, swarms of tiny owls, all at once?  What if that was your job?  What would you need?  You might need an Owl Hive.  Or a cluster of Owl Hives. What would an owl hive be like?  Each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And it goes on&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/and-it-goes-on</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Oct 2010 15:16:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It always makes me happy to see infant animals in the yard; it means the world is rolling along, as it should, species replenishing themselves and the natural systems functioning.  This is why people love seeing babies &#8212; it gives the same satisfaction: that the world is carrying on as usual, despite everything, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>in which I reveal my graphic petticoats along with an Orange-billed sparrow</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/in-which-i-reveal-my-graphic-petticoats-along-with-an-orange-billed-sparrow</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; or, saving shots by going artsy&#8230;
Not all photos are created equal, especially if you&#8217;re an amateur photog like me who asks my competent but limited point-and-shoot digital camera to do things it wasn&#8217;t meant to do, like capture images of cryptic birds high in trees with too many leaves against the light on an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ladybug heaven was&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/ladybug-heaven-was</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 22:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;our aphid-infested herb garden.
Last week, we found a lady bug (AKA lady beetle, lady bird beetle) wandering around on the ground; we scooped her up and put her on a cilantro plant badly infested with aphids.  A few days later, the flower stalks of the plant were alive with the black-and-orange alligator-like larvae of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nudging clay horned lizards along</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/nudging-clay-horned-lizards-along</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 23:33:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while back, I posted about my process for making horned lizard bowls (affectionately known as Horny toads) from clay.  Here are the next few steps, all shown in one photo, below.
To the right is a now completely assembled and textured horned lizard, in the leather hard stage, drying.  In the center is a bone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Squeezing out horned lizards from clay</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/squeezing-out-horned-lizards-from-clay</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new batch of clay horned lizards under way &#8212; early steps:
From top to bottom: 
1) Rough out body shape by pinching; head and tail included in starting clay lump.
2) Create appendages: horns, limbs.  Allow to &#8220;set up&#8221; or slightly stiffen, while: refining body shape of liz.
3) Further refine body shape; note detail in head, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Got Gila Monster?</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/got-gila-monster</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gila monsters (Heloderma suspectum) are large stumpy lizards with bright handsome markings that are both cryptic and aposematic simultaneously, and whose hands look like neoprene wetsuit gloves with claws.  They are remarkable for being one of only two venomous lizard species in the world.  They live in the Sonoran and southern Great Basin Deserts and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tweaking Tiny Tins: making mini watercolor kits from mint boxes</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/tweaking-tiny-tins-making-mini-watercolor-kits-from-mint-boxes</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everybody in the world has posted their version of the Miniature Watercolor Box, usually ingeniously created from any flat metal tin, often Altoids, sometimes Velamints, or others (see here, here, and here, just for a few examples of many).  These projects are all well-described and illustrated. I hereby add my version, but will only add [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Howdy from Sierra Vista, Arizona</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/howdy-from-sierra-vista-arizona</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gaze upon Sierra Vista, in south eastern Arizona, where the beautiful Huachuca Mountains beetle over the fast food restaurants and motels of the busy town.  Not visible in this shot, but also beetling, is the everpresent and mysterious white surveillance blimp.  One day, I will find out about the white blimp.  Maybe today.

The natural beauty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Have a Javelina, or two</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/have-a-javelina-or-two</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:53:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Days are getting short until Three Star Owl&#8217;s third appearance at Southwest Wings Birding and Nature Festival, and I&#8217;m in a groove, making pieces for the event.  As posted, I&#8217;ve been making mugs, and also owls.  Lots of owls.  Even more owls than usual.
So recently I turned to the hairy side of Sonoran fauna, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A new batch of &#8220;Songbird&#8221; mugs is underway</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/a-new-batch-of-songbird-mugs-is-underway</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/events/a-new-batch-of-songbird-mugs-is-underway#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m now in heavy production mode for the upcoming Southwest Wings Birding and Nature Festival in southeastern Arizona (see Events for details).  Some of the objects I&#8217;m making in small batches are smooth-surfaced mugs for glazing bird portraits on.  Flat-bottomed, hand-built (as opposed to wheel-thrown), and intended for daily use, these mugs have proven popular [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Constellation Alien Invader Roadkill&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/constellation-alien-invader-roadkill</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:53:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;in which Galactic Possum battles the Celestial Army of Campervans and nearly always loses.  Nearby constellation Ferafelis vorax waits to feast on the carnage.  Visible only in the Southern Hemisphere.

(A.Shock 2009, 6&#8243;x9&#8243; Watercolor, gouache and charcoal)
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		<title>So what about the Hen?</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/so-what-about-the-hen</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 19:37:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may be wondering about the much-posted Hen, a female Anna&#8217;s hummingbird, and her two nestlings, who were busy growing up in an Aleppo Pine in our back yard.
As far as we know, the Hen fledged her young successfully while we were in New Zealand. We&#8217;ll never know for sure, but the evidence supports a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Easter Nidification: Stalwart Hen update</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/easter-nidification-stalwart-hen-update</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/easter-nidification-stalwart-hen-update#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 19:32:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hen update with photo. The Stalwart Hen and her Nidlings (the Anna&#8217;s hummingbird and her nestlings in our backyard pinetree) are still hanging in there, despite a night of unseasonal wind and cool rain.  In this photo, the bottom side of the tip of one of the nidling&#8217;s beaks is just visible at the left [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Increments: Stacked Toad Teapot Effigy FINAL Finale</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/increments-stacked-toad-teapot-effigy-final-finale</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I mentioned previously, there are two pieces of mine in the NCECA &#8220;Potters as Sculptors; Sculptors as Potters&#8221; show currently up at Mesa Community College (see the Three Star Owl Events page for details).  One of them is the long-evolving &#8220;Toadstack&#8221; (the other is Venomosity which can currently be viewed on the Home page.) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nidification: Cloacal dexterity is next to godliness</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/nidification-cloacal-dexterity-is-next-to-godliness</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/nidification-cloacal-dexterity-is-next-to-godliness#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
The Anna&#8217;s Hummingbird Hen&#8217;s behavior has mystified me for the last few days.  What I see when the Hen is gone: an empty nest, no nestling activity (after that first exciting view).  Then when the Hen returns, she immediately sits tight; no feeding.  Wouldn&#8217;t you expect her to return and feed nestlings, if there were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nidification &#8212; Nestling is happening!</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/nidification-nestling-is-happening</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:16:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s confirmed &#8212; the Hen&#8217;s egg(s) has/ve hatched!
This afternoon (Thursday April 2) just after one pm, I was finally able to catch the Hen away from the Nid &#8212; she&#8217;d been sitting tighter than usual this morning &#8212; and could look down on the nest from the upper window.  The first discovery was that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nidification: Is that or isn&#8217;t that&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/nidification-is-that-or-isnt-that</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/nidification-is-that-or-isnt-that#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;a little pointy beak?
Here is this morning&#8217;s photo of the Anna&#8217;s hummingbird Hen on her Nid.  I began looking very carefully for evidence of nestlings yesterday, April 1, since that was my estimate of the earliest her eggs might hatch.  This morning, I checked first thing, and still didn&#8217;t see any sign of young birds.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Increments: Stacked Toad Teapot Effigy finale (almost)</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/increments-stacked-toad-teapot-effigy-finale-almost</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The final increments of the imperturbable Stacked Toad Teapot Effigy (or Toadstack for short) have been completed, and after months of being alternately obsessed on and ignored, left alone and detailed, the piece is finished and ready for its destination.  Here are its last two phases: a final coat of white terra sigillata (super-fine suspension [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nidification: the Hen sits tight for sure</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/nidification-the-hen-sits-tight-for-sure</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 03:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is the Hen today, sitting tight on her tiny cup nest built on two pine cones in our backyard Aleppo Pine.  She fills the whole opening like a cork, horizontally oriented.  Usually we see hummers either air-born or perched, in vertical orientation: it&#8217;s the horizontal arrangement, with her tail sticking out behind her and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nidification &#8212; Hen still constructing</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/nidification-hen-still-constructing</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:23:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Much building activity: as of today the Anna&#8217;s hummingbird hen in our Aleppo pine is still finessing her nid.  This morning, she could be seen bustling and fussing at the site (yes, I anthropomorphize, get over it please, I&#8217;m not an ornithologist!), making frequent trips away and to, coming back with light-colored fibers, some of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nidification: the Hen is On!</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/nidification-the-hen-is-on</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 21:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Anna&#8217;s hummingbird hen is on the nest! This morning I saw her bringing small beakfuls of fluffy white material like spider web or some kind of aerial seeds and adding them. She would then settle in the cup of the nest, and wiggle a little, as if to get the shape perfect, and run [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stacked toad teapot effigy and the mathematics of artistic license</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/stacked-toad-teapot-effigy-and-the-mathematics-of-artistic-license</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:09:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Stacked Toad Teapot Effigy is alive and well, so far.
After languishing at the back of a shelf in the studio for many weeks wrapped in damp paper towels and layers and layers of plastic film, the Stacked Toad Teapot Effigy has finally been fully sculpted and is drying, awaiting further surface treatment (terra sigillata [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One last Sarcoramphus peek&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/one-last-sarcoramphus-peek</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;just because this photo of Jack&#8217;s King vulture waiting to be taken home makes me laugh.

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		<title>Increments: Color me vulture, finally</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/increments-color-me-vulture-finally</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are the exciting final steps of Jack&#8217;s King Vulture.  (Previous increments can be viewed and read about here.)

This first photo, Increment 3, is a close-up of what the piece looks like after it&#8217;s been bisqued (fired the first time) and then glazed. Pretty crappy looking, isn&#8217;t it?  That&#8217;s because glaze is a chalky-looking liquid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Increments: Color me vulture (Sarcoramphus papa), plus a quick field trip to Belize</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another reason I&#8217;ve had vultures on the brain is because I owe a friend a vulture.  Specifically, a king vulture, Sarcoramphus papa, the largest of the Cathartids, the New World Vultures.  They are the largest vulture in our hemisphere if you don&#8217;t count the two condors, and they are striking birds (literally &#8212; I was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stacked Toad effigy vessel part 3, also why is a toad not a frog?</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/stacked-toad-effigy-vessel-part-3-also-why-is-a-toad-not-a-frog</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 22:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There have been many delays and distractions for the Stacked Toad Effigy Teapot: computer failure and restoration, other deadlines, and Thanksgiving, including a tragic Saguaro Plunge, details to be posted later.
But here is the next phase: the &#8220;lid&#8221; of the &#8220;teapot&#8221; is in place, and also the &#8220;finial&#8221; (knob), with Hector Halfsquid for scale.
This involved [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stacked Toad Effigy Vessel: part 2</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/stacked-toad-effigy-vessel-part-2</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 05:50:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Stacked Toad Effigy Vessel is being built from the bottom up, with a brown, groggy, stoneware clay. The working composition is in my head, informed by pictures of desert toads on the work bench, and adapted as it goes.  A small maquette modeled last week is nearby for reference, although the maquette has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stacked Toad Effigy Vessel, more on Toad Toes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How many toes a toad has: useful information put to use almost immediately: here&#8217;s a Stacked Toad Effigy Vessel just underway.  Potential Toe count so far: 36 toes. Actual toe count: 0 (they&#8217;ll be added later).  Watch here for progress reports.  More toads-toes coming soon&#8230;
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