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	<title>Three Star Owl - Functional and Sculptural Clay Artwork with a Natural History &#187; nidification</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>What luck!</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/birds/what-luck</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 06:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning, I found a golden egg, high up in a tree.
Nestled into the rough bark of our backyard mesquite, a magical bird had laid a golden egg.  This was excellent: what a windfall! &#8212; my fortune was secured, if only I could reach it.
But it was too far over my head, so I had [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/the-hidden-egg#comments</comments>
		<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>Spot the Bird answer: rock and wren</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/spot-the-bird-answer-rock-and-wren</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/spot-the-bird-answer-rock-and-wren#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 13:42:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To the right is the photo key to the Rock wren of the current Spot the Bird.  Rock wrens rock one of my favorite Latin names in the bird world (along with Upupa epops, the hoopoe): Salpinctes obsoletus.  According to Choate, the name comes from Greek salpinctes, &#8220;a trumpeter&#8221; and Latin obsoletus, &#8220;indistinct&#8221;, [...]]]></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>A Little the worse for wear</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/a-little-the-worse-for-wear</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/a-little-the-worse-for-wear#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:59:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They don&#8217;t all make it.  E found a dead fledgling hummingbird in the path across the wash, under the palo verde tree. It was dried, mummified, an inoffensive inanimate thing, not even worth the ants picking over.  We buried it under a nearby chuparosa, a favored food of hummers.  (Photos E.Shock)
Top: detail of foot, with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hen Triumphant!</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/hen-triumphant</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/hen-triumphant#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://threestarowl.com/?p=11709</guid>
		<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>Oh say can you KIK&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/oh-say-can-you-kik</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/events/oh-say-can-you-kik#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 15:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://threestarowl.com/?p=11424</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;by the dawnzerly light?
&#60;&#60; Here&#8217;s one of the local Cooper&#8217;s hawks preening in the pre-dawn light above my tent &#8220;office&#8221;.  Every morning at EXACTLY 5:48 by the alarm clock, the pair begins their day by skrekking KIK a couple of solo kiks, then rolling out a long stream of duo kik kik kik kik kik [...]]]></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 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>We interrupt this flamingo&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/we-interrupt-this-flamingo</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:25:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://threestarowl.com/?p=10158</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;to bring you a tiny owlet.  From Pink to Dink, with hardly a blink.
Friday morning, I came home from delivering E to campus, and blissfully opened the back door to let in the first blast of coolish late summer air.  Instead of the usual morning quiet, the back yard was chattering with angry bird sounds: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mono birds and tufa</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/mono-birds-and-tufa</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 22:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of our destinations during the recent eastern California trip was the dramatic and amazing Mono Lake and its crumbly, gradually ephemeral tufa groves.  Tufa towers are mineral formations deposited underwater when calcium-rich spring water pours up into carbonate-rich lakewater.  The resulting mixture precipitates calcium-carbonate which builds upward into the lake water, sort of like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rock-watching in the wind</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/rock-watching-in-the-wind</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 20:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
A few days ago, we drove far out into sage-covered lava rocks to check out some hot springs on the east side of the Sierra Nevada.  After walking to the top of the hill, walking around the next hill and between two other hills, seeing what birds were around and about, and while E [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Bird Spots You</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/another-bird-spots-you</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re not familiar with Gilded flickers (Colaptes chrysoides), they are large desert woodpeckers, closely associated with Saguaros.  They excavate their nest cavities in the trunks of the giant cactus.  They&#8217;re closely related to Red-shafted and Yellow-shafted flickers who inhabit the western and eastern U.S., respectively.  Flickers are flashy in coloration, being spotted and barred, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aerial talon-show over Papago Park</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/aerial-talon-show-over-papago-park</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/aerial-talon-show-over-papago-park#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 21:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Papago Park]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Had a nice morning walk in Papago Park (Phoenix AZ) this morning &#8212; the spring air was breezy and clear, and the high skies brought out a number of aerial show-offs.  The main attraction was a Peregrine falcon, spiraling and soaring between the two largest buttes in the Park and the Army National Guard reservation, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s the most bunnerful time of the year</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/its-the-most-bunnerful-time-of-the-year</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/its-the-most-bunnerful-time-of-the-year#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 04:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#60;&#60;  Two of these equals these. ↓
Desert cottontails abound in the yard right now.  The desert is green from the late winter rains, so there&#8217;s lots to eat.  Adult frolicking leads to tiny bunlets.  The two in the photo above on the right were stashed by mom in a shallow scrape right out in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wild mantid-loaf: imagine another surprise!</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/wild-mantid-loaf-imagine-another-surprise</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/wild-mantid-loaf-imagine-another-surprise#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 23:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A praying mantis egg-case is not something you can easily find if you&#8217;re looking for one.  So, imagine our surprise &#8212; again! &#8212; when E  looked up at a random, leafy, and low branch of the big backyard mesquite, and said, &#8220;Hey, look!&#8221;  There was a tiny brown-loaf-looking mantid egg case, stuck to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lil mantids, or: imagine our surprise</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/lil-mantids-or-imagine-our-surprise</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/lil-mantids-or-imagine-our-surprise#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:11:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We grow succulents at our house in containers, and some of them can&#8217;t take the heat of the low desert summers, while others can&#8217;t take the hardest frosts of winter. This results in a constant migration of plants inward and outward between the house and yard, depending on the season.  The indoor space the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Further adventures with the Hairhen</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/further-adventures-with-the-hairhen</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/further-adventures-with-the-hairhen#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Early Monday morning I nearly stepped on a raccoon kit.  We both came around a wall at the same time, from opposite directions.  Fortunately, no contact was made: the kits are well-grown now.  Also, the Hairhen is very watchful, so we were all very careful to not create an incident.  She and all four kits [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meet the Hair Hen&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/meet-the-hair-hen</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/meet-the-hair-hen#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the Hair Hen.  Actually, there are two; we call them both the Hair Hen because we used to not be able to tell them apart.  Now we can: one has two kits, the other has three.
This is a picture of the three-kit Hair Hen.  She lives under the Mexican Fan Palm in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Springtime do-over in Sedona (with Bonus Wild Hen nidification)</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/springtime-do-over-in-sedona-with-bonus-wild-hen-nidification</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/springtime-do-over-in-sedona-with-bonus-wild-hen-nidification#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We missed some of Spring in the desert this year, so last weekend we went in search of it under the Mogollon Rim: Sunday found us hiking along the West Fork of Oak Creek in Sedona.  It&#8217;s one of the more popular trails in that popular area, and at times it&#8217;s mobbed by clusters of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So what about the Hen?</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/so-what-about-the-hen</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/so-what-about-the-hen#comments</comments>
		<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>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>The Curious Case of the Corpse in the Yucca</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/the-curious-case-of-the-corpse-in-the-yucca</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/the-curious-case-of-the-corpse-in-the-yucca#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 14:08:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cactus wrens are a large (for a wren), lively, and common presence all over the low-elevation deserts in the American Southwest.  The photo to left left shows one sitting on a cholla branch.  They do that a lot, often while making all sorts of  mechanical-sounding vocalizations like drbrdrbrdrbrdrr or krakrakrakrakrakra.  Cactus wrens are expert at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nidification &#8212; Nestling is happening!</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/nidification-nestling-is-happening</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/nidification-nestling-is-happening#comments</comments>
		<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>Nidification: Turns out the Hen is a good sailor&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/birds/nidification-turns-out-the-hen-is-a-good-sailor</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/birds/nidification-turns-out-the-hen-is-a-good-sailor#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;and rode out a major blow.
From the middle of the day yesterday until just after 10pm, a big wind storm ruffled the Phoenix area.  It made the blustery afternoons we&#8217;ve been having look like a gentle breeze.  There were sustained winds near 30mph, and a peak wind gust of 53mph.  Much of this was after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Double nidification feature: more Dinky Desert Dudes, plus bonus Hen photo</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/double-nidification-feature-more-dinky-desert-dudes-plus-bonus-hen-photo</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/double-nidification-feature-more-dinky-desert-dudes-plus-bonus-hen-photo#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 13:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not much larger than the Verdin is another small gray bird of the Sonoran Desert, the Black-tailed Gnatcatcher.  A tiny, long-tailed, streamlined bird with a narrow gleaning bill, both sexes sport cool gray plumage, and in breeding season the male has a full black cap.  They actively forage for insects in desert vegetation, and are [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/nidification-the-hen-sits-tight-for-sure#comments</comments>
		<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>Yard list: Dinky Dudes of the Desert</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/yard-list-dinky-dudes-of-the-desert</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/yard-list-dinky-dudes-of-the-desert#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 05:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I left the Mississippi River Valley to come back to the West, I thought, Hmmmmm, no chickadees in the low desert.  What&#8217;s that going to be like?
We were very accustomed to Carolina chickadees as ever-present &#8220;fee-bay-fee-bee&#8221;-ers in our St. Louis yard.  They accompanied us on hikes; we heard them in the parks, they were [...]]]></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>Close in &#8212; tiny mud pot forms on wall</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/close-in-tiny-mud-pot-forms-on-wall</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/close-in-tiny-mud-pot-forms-on-wall#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 05:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[archaeology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[art/clay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[close in]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cool bug!]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every once in a while, I find a clay pot &#8212; a tiny, perfect clay pot &#8212; on the wall of the house.  They look like little half-buried Mediterranean amphorae, without handles, with a narrow neck and a flared rim, the entire thing only half an inch across.  But they have no openings: like the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yard List &#8212; Great Horned Owl</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/yard-list-great-horned-owl</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/yard-list-great-horned-owl#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:24:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[birds]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[owls]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night at 3.00am exactly, I heard the Great horned owl call. Very close, somewhere right in the back yard. The windows were open because a light monsoon event had brought fresh rain-cooled air, so the call, though soft, carried clearly.
Great horned owls are regulars in our area because there are plenty of perches, and [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Papago Park]]></category>
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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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