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	<title>Three Star Owl - Functional and Sculptural Clay Artwork with a Natural History &#187; owls</title>
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		<title>Last chance to see&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 05:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; &#8220;Ossuary: an archæology of resurrection&#8221; in the show Death and Rebirth at Maryville University&#8217;s Morton May Gallery in St.Louis.  The show will be up until this friday, December 2.  Click here for details about the show and about the Ossuary.
&#60;&#60; Detail (photo and piece, A.Shock)
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		<title>Her majesty deigns to be photographed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 05:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I felt like a paparazza, drawing as close as I dared, trying to hold my proper camera with the big zoom steady in the failing light.  But she was calmly perched out in the open, low on our back fence, mobbed by smaller birds.  Hummingbirds orbited her, scolding, like cheeky electrons, but she ignored them. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pick of the litter</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 22:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among the sculptural vessels I&#8217;ve made recently for upcoming holiday sales, a couple things stand out.  This is one of them:
Feather Bundle Jar with Owl (13.5&#8243; ht, stoneware 2011, photo and object A.Shock)  &#62;&#62;
What you can&#8217;t see in the photo is the interior glaze, a fiery glossy red that contrasts strongly with the dry, dinosaur-green [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Halloween!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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Not a real owl!  I photographed this owlmorphic clump of cobwebs and autumn leaves in a tree hollow on Cape Cod in 2007.
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		<title>Happy Owl Face</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 01:09:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Camelback Studio Tour in the Sherwood Heights neighborhood of southern Scottsdale is over until the next one (that&#8217;s March 9, 10, 11, 2012, by the way, so mark your calendars now), and I&#8217;m tired but happy.  Thanks to all who came by to visit, shop, or both.  The sale seemed to occupy the last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drawn in: The Curious Case of the Owl in the Notebook</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:11:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The VLO (Very Large Owl) sculpture &#8220;Windblown Owl&#8221; found a new home recently.  The next VLO is underway, currently drying and eventually migrating to a client in California (shhhh, it&#8217;s a surprise), and I wanted to use the same greenish-golden surface coloring and glazing effect on the new owl.
I had a basic idea of what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Owl whistle necklaces</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 04:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update as of Monday 22Aug: thanks for all of your enthusiastic responses!  And thanks to Kate McKinnon for posting them, and loaning me the fine box they were roosting in, too!  All the owl whistle necklaces have found new homes &#8211; the owl/owl-craver ratio was excellent, and there was only a little disappointment.  If you&#8217;d [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fasten your seatbelts&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 16:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;.Three Star Owl is hitting the road!
For three days &#8212; Thursday, Friday and Saturday August 4, 5, and 6 2011, I&#8217;ll have a booth at the Southwest Wings Birding and Nature Festival in Sierra Vista, AZ.
For more info about the festival, click HERE.
&#60;&#60; VLO (Very Large Owl) effigy and a couple of coati tails.

Special Note: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mess-o&#8217;-Owls (with a serious side-bar)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2011 04:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update: if you&#8217;re looking at info on what areas are open for birding/touring in Southeastern Arizona as a result of the fires and floods, here&#8217;s a link to a useful and interesting July 19 2011 article in the Arizona Daily Star online: http://azstarnet.com/news/science/environment/article_ad90f282-df75-5c6e-b35b-2f80335577bc.html
&#8212;&#8211;
Last April at &#8220;Birdy Verde&#8221; (more properly known as the Verde Valley Birding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And now, some owls</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 03:04:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are some metal owls that roost on the cast iron stove in our den.

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		<title>Owl? What owl?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:07:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday an MLO (Medium Large Owl) emerged fresh from the kiln, all mute greens and golds, looking wind-blown and content.  I&#8217;d built this owl outside on the back porch, in a plein-air studio annex location during our in-between-not-too-hot-not-too-cold season, and I put it back outside to save indoor shelf space. Anything on the porch is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just a reminder from Three Star Owl</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 19:24:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I wrote the following promo last month and then promptly forgot all about it in my Wordpress &#8220;drafts&#8221;.  So, here it is, to be used as a reminder that the exhibition is almost over:

   Allison Shock/Three Star Owl is pleased to debut the new piece &#8220;Assemblage: Owl Hives&#8221; at the Arizona [...]]]></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>There will be owls&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 05:53:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;among other things.
Tomorrow, Friday, is the first day of Three Star Owl&#8217;s Open Studio, part of the Camelback Studio Tour.  The weather is supposed to be beautiful, but the meteorologists have less lovely predictions for Saturday and Sunday.  We&#8217;ll see.  Rain or shine, wind or calm, I&#8217;ll be here from 10 &#8211; 5 waiting for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Owls dislike Autumn because&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/owls-dislike-autumn-because</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 20:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;it&#8217;s hard to hide in bright, falling foliage if you&#8217;re a flying tiger&#8230;
Here&#8217;s one of a pair of Great Horned Owls we happened upon yesterday in a cottonwood grove along the Verde River east of the Phoenix metro area.  We were scouting for Tuesday&#8217;s official Christmas Bird Count of the Rio Verde area, and accidentally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy yet Spooky&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 13:43:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ &#8230;Halloween Greetings from Three Star Owl.
(Photo, Detail of &#8220;Mother of Owls&#8221;, Allison Shock, smoke-fired terracotta, 2001)

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		<title>The unfinished hive</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/the-unfinished-hive</link>
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		<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>We interrupt this flamingo&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:25:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<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>Another excellent tropical owl</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/another-excellent-tropical-owl</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 04:29:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This post newly updated with better link to owl sound)

Here&#8217;s a Spectacled owl (Pulsatrix perspicillata), staring hard at us from its perch in the tropical lowlands of Sarapiquí in Costa Rica.  What could be more delightful than a cinnamon-and-cholcolate owl with white &#8220;spectacles?&#8221; 
I have the answer: one that makes a strange, rapidly pulsating noise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good owls come in strange places</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/good-owls-come-in-strange-places</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:16:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I tell my non-birding friends that we saw quite a few owls in Costa Rica, many of them are surprised.  The common perception is that owls are indeed woodland creatures, but that&#8217;s &#8220;normal&#8221; woods &#8212;  not, you know, the &#8220;jungle.&#8221;  I suspect this monolithic concept of owls &#8212; where &#8220;owl&#8221; pretty much equals [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tiny owlets toot in trees</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/tiny-owlets-toot-in-trees</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:15:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To say that pygmy owls are sparrow-like isn&#8217;t entirely true.  But it&#8217;s almost true.
To start with, there&#8217;s their size: they are Very Very Small (the technical term).  Almost sparrow-sized.  Perched in a conifer, they look like a tiny pinecone. Also, like sparrows, they&#8217;re largely diurnal, and can frequently be found glaring down from a high [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Boss in her office: &#8220;checking for lard&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/the-boss-in-her-office-checking-for-lard</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/the-boss-in-her-office-checking-for-lard#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:52:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[This is a Spot the Bird, although it's less of a quiz than a photo series. All photos A or E Shock.  Click to enlarge.]
Here are some feral date palms, growing wild at a substantial oasis in Death Valley, CA.  The date palm is Phoenix dactylifera (&#8220;finger-bearing&#8221;), but in this case we could call it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And, speaking of owls&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/and-speaking-of-owls</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 03:37:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; and we were &#8212; always &#8212; this Great horned owl (Bubo virginianus) was giving us the eye from our big backyard pine tree, right at sunset tonight.  The Gila woodpeckers, doves, and local hummers &#8212; both Anna&#8217;s and Black-chinned &#8212; were really ticked off at the eminence tigre, and zoomed and hovered threateningly.  I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One of the best things we DIDN&#8217;T see in New Zealand&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/one-of-the-best-things-we-didnt-see-in-new-zealand</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;was a Ruru, or Morepork (Ninox novaeseelandiae).

It&#8217;s NZ&#8217;s only remaining native owl (the Laughing owl was last recorded in 1914), and is fairly common in many habitats, even parks and gardens, but is especially numerous in tracts of native bush.  We heard them several places, mostly in the Kauri Forest while on a night walk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From the Sketchbook: Owlwall</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/from-the-sketchbook-owlwall</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 05:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<title>Half-Dome Head: the Geology of Owl Crania</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/half-dome-head-the-geology-of-owl-crania</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 04:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a property of owls I call &#8220;Half-Dome Head.&#8221;  It&#8217;s a shape that&#8217;s noticeable in the profile of all owls, particularly the larger ones.  The Barred Owl to the right is exhibiting major Half-Dome Head.  If Half-Dome Head can be achieved when making owls in clay, the resulting effigies will be Especially Owly.
The name derives [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cranky Owlet finally meets&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/birds/cranky-owlet-finally-meets</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:23:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;a true kindred spirit:

Adult Burrowing owl giving the entire world StinkEye at the Adobe Mountain Wildlife Center display at Boyce Thompson Arboretum&#8217;s &#8220;Welcome Back Buzzards Day&#8221;. (Photo A.Shock)

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		<title>Three Star Owl is Guest Blogger on Birdchick.com!</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/three-star-owl-is-guest-blogger-on-birdchickcom</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/three-star-owl-is-guest-blogger-on-birdchickcom#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great news!  Sharon Stiteler of Birdchick.com fame ran a contest for guest-bloggers while she&#8217;s out of the country, and Three Star Owl is her selection for Friday&#8217;s guest post!  Regular Three Star Owl readers will recognize the entry as a post from this web journal, Vertical Napping Bark, which is one of my favorites because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HAPPY HALLOWEEN!</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/etymology/happy-halloween</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
This is a Spectacled Owl from the recent Veracruz trip.  Spectacled owls are boldly patterned, unsociable owls of tropical forests of Central and South America.  This one flew silently in to check us out from its perch high in the canopy, and suffered to have its photo snapped illuminated only by a flashlight, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vertical Napping Bark: it&#8217;s hard to see an owl</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/vertical-napping-bark-its-hard-to-see-an-owl</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:43:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Kate McKinnon recently posted that she has a hard time seeing owls in the wild, and she takes it personally.  Well she should, because an owl&#8217;s Primary Goal other than to eat something, is to escape detection, by you, by me, by a thoughtless human with a crossbow, by the other bigger [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Autumnal Owlinox &#8212; new season, new yard bird</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/happy-owly-autumn-new-yard-bird-heard</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:27:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night was a busy night in the yard.  Well, I suppose they&#8217;re all busy nights, but last night I was awake to appreciate it.  Before human bedtime, the geckos were at their posts under the porch lights (our yard residents are the non-native Mediterranean Geckos, not the indigenous Western Banded, but they&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yard list: Great horned owls part two</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/yard-list-great-horned-owls-part-two</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update to an earlier post: 
Our local Great horned owl has a friend.  Last night from about 4 am we listened to two owls duetting and singing antiphonally for about half an hour, the higher hoots of the female alternating with the lower calls of the male.  It&#8217;s early in the year for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yard List &#8212; Great Horned Owl</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/yard-list-great-horned-owl</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:24:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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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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