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	<title>Three Star Owl - Functional and Sculptural Clay Artwork with a Natural History</title>
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		<title>Larval, dude.</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/larval-dude</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 17:31:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s squishy and voluminous, bulbous-headed and bulgy. Plus, it engulfed every single leaf of a poor little potted chile, covering the soil below with drifts of black frass, but&#8230; it&#8217;s REALLY GREEN, and I think it&#8217;s pretty spectacular, in its way. It&#8217;s a hornworm &#8212; I&#8217;m not sure which &#8212; which makes it the larva [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life in the day of a Fritillary</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jun 2013 00:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a certain Passionflower vine that grows in an unlikely crack in our pool deck. It&#8217;s the most enduring of all of the tough volunteer passiflora vines that inhabit our yard, exposed to blazing sun each summer afternoon, and even surviving winters with killing frosts, its roots shielded from chill and drought by the aging [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spot the Bird, the beauty of color vision edition</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/spot-the-bird-the-beauty-of-color-vision-edition</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/spot-the-bird-the-beauty-of-color-vision-edition#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 16:32:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a photo of a bird in a tree, in black and white: With a little bit of searching, you&#8217;ll find the tiny bird, made less obvious by its dark-and-light values breaking up its birdy outline.  This helps it blend well with the aspen leaves and bark. It also helps it to be invisible to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;ve always wondered what the &#8220;peanut gallery&#8221; looks like. Now I know&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/yard-list/ive-always-wondered-what-the-peanut-gallery-looks-like-now-i-know</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/yard-list/ive-always-wondered-what-the-peanut-gallery-looks-like-now-i-know#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2013 14:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; it&#8217;s part of our roof. Young Rock Squirrel peering out from under our tiles, where it was born. They are natural in the desert and welcome in our yard, but a problem in the attic and walls. (Photo A.Shock)]]></description>
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		<title>Peaches and cream</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/peaches-and-cream</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/peaches-and-cream#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2013 17:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://threestarowl.com/?p=17252</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The young peachy person shown below has been hanging out in our Old Scottsdale yard, eating seed-fluffs off of Creosote bushes. It&#8217;s a Rosy-faced Lovebird (Agapornis roseicollis, formerly known as the Peach-faced lovebird) with naturally-occurring variant plumage called &#8220;Lutino&#8221;. The image inset bottom left shows a bird with the standard &#8220;wild&#8221; coloration, also photo&#8217;d in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flickedactyls</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/flickedactyls</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/flickedactyls#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 16:31:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Really, they&#8217;re not so very different. (Composite photo of young Gilded Flicker and a whimsical, biologically unsound Three Star Owl clay pterosaur effigy, by A.Shock)]]></description>
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		<title>Spot the Bird: Horizontal Napping Bark</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/spot-the-bird-horizontal-napping-bark</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/spot-the-bird-horizontal-napping-bark#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 15:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[birds]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some birds really do not want to be seen, like certain mothy-plumaged nocturnals.  With their barred and mottled markings, owls and nightjars can blend in day or night with any old thing: bark, stump, or rock. Owls are inclined to hide by perching upright against a trunk &#8212; Vertical Napping Bark &#8212; while nightjars (nighthawks, whip-poor-wills, and their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Soaking up the sun</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/soaking-up-the-sun</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/soaking-up-the-sun#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 15:46:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://threestarowl.com/?p=17208</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Rummaging through the archives, I recently re-discovered this shot of a glorious basking Greater Earless Lizard (Cophasaurus texanus), taken a couple years back on the Pine Creek Loop Trail northeast of Phoenix, AZ. Click to enlarge, and get a load of those toes! (Photo A.Shock) ]]></description>
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		<title>Orton&#8217;s ladderback &#8212; remedial photoshop strikes again</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/birds/ortons-ladderback-remedial-photoshop-strikes-again</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/birds/ortons-ladderback-remedial-photoshop-strikes-again#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 03:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://threestarowl.com/?p=17191</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I heard a sharp &#8220;pik&#8221; in the backyard this morning, so I grabbed the long lens and went out to look for the male Black-headed Grosbeak I&#8217;d heard and briefly glimpsed at dawn from the comfort of bed (birdwatching from bed is one of the things I love about the big sliding door in our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Morningstar</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/morningstar</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/morningstar#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 22:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<title>Dragon-wing rug</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/dragon-wing-rug</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/dragon-wing-rug#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 05:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://threestarowl.com/?p=17131</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you had a dragon-wing rug &#8212; I do mean a rug made out of dragon wings &#8212; and it was terribly old and worn but still in use in the family home, and it lay on the floor of a room at the back with a couple of big armchairs to fold up in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old bird, new spelling</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/old-bird-new-spelling</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/old-bird-new-spelling#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 17:12:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://threestarowl.com/?p=17107</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Updated and corrected 6 pm Apparently, it&#8217;s spelled Wood-Pewee. And, no, it&#8217;s not that the American Ornithological* Union has changed its mind (although that&#8217;s been known to happen) &#8212; it&#8217;s that after decades of birding, I just learned how to spell &#8220;Pewee&#8221;.  All this time I thought it was &#8220;Peewee&#8221;. That&#8217;s a good thing about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Further joys of nidification</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/further-joys-of-nidification</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/further-joys-of-nidification#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 22:37:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are places like this in the garden and around the house: Laissez faire places, where neglected green wagons fill with garden miscellany, well-worn gloves are left out in the dust, empty peach flats perch forlornly on footstools. These neglected corners are golden places &#8212; especially in spring, when things are looking for private spots [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wren rocks</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/wren-rocks</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/wren-rocks#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 05:18:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you get out, you see things. On a recent drive through a favorite stretch of desert mountain backroad, we saw a small thing that I&#8217;ve always wanted to see, ever since reading about it.  We saw it.  And I got a picture of it.  It&#8217;s this: A tiny bird in a tiny hole in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spot the Bird: horned edition</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/spot-the-bird-horned-edition</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/spot-the-bird-horned-edition#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 03:52:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[close in]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[california]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[desert horned lizard]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[joshua tree national park]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Spot the Bird without a bird.  No clues, except that it&#8217;s all elbows.  Answer below the fold. &#160; &#160; Adult Desert Horned Lizard (Phrynosoma platyrhinos) hiding under a shrub, Joshua Tree National Park (photos A.Shock March 2013)]]></description>
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		<title>The desert pops</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/the-desert-pops</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/the-desert-pops#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 18:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[botany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[close in]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[field trips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[natural history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arizona]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bartlett lake]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poppies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sonoran desert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wildflowers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://threestarowl.com/?p=16920</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Lots of rain, sunshine, and warm temperatures after a tough winter have started the desert&#8217;s flower-fueled engines, pumping poppies out of &#8220;nowhere&#8221; like magician&#8216;s flowers. &#60;&#60; View across Bartlett Lake to SB Mountain in the Mazatzal Wilderness area. The bright orange wash just below the high peaks is poppy fields. The bright green on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sphinx in pinks</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/sphinx-in-pinks</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/sphinx-in-pinks#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 19:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[close in]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cool bug!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Invertebrata]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[natural history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[yard list]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arizona]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[desert]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[garden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hummingbird moth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hyles lineata]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[insects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[phoenix]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scottsdale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sphinx moth]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://threestarowl.com/?p=16899</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s springtime, and under the fluorescent bulb the front porch metamorphoses into a feeding and mating hotspot.  Mantids, huntsmen, sunspiders, cellar spiders, a variety of moths and other jointleggedies and geckos  congregate at this arthropodal equivalent of a savannah watering hole to look for love, snacks, and in the case of the mantids, lovesnacks. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spot the Bird, Shadow edition</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/birds/spot-the-bird-shadow-edition</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/birds/spot-the-bird-shadow-edition#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 16:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[birds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hummingbirds]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://threestarowl.com/?p=16877</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Time to play Spot the Bird! Here you go: clearly, there&#8217;s a bird nearby, large &#8212; or rather, small &#8212; as life, casting its shadow. Look closely, though, and the dinky girl throwing shade is in the shot, warming her tiny bones in the winter sun, whose heat radiates off of our lovely pink block [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Others Who Live in Our House</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/the-others-who-live-in-our-house</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/the-others-who-live-in-our-house#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 01:14:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[close in]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[furbearers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[natural history]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://threestarowl.com/?p=16850</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We have a loose house. By that I mean that nothing &#8212; windows, roof, doors, plumbing &#8212; closes tight, seals off, keeps in, or shuts out. Anything. Everything &#8212; cold draughts, hot breezes, swirling dust, muddy floodwater, joint-leggedies, fur bodies, helicopter rotor din &#8212; it all comes in, then usually goes out again, unless it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spot the Bird</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/spot-the-bird-2</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/spot-the-bird-2#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2013 06:09:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[birds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[field trips]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://threestarowl.com/?p=16810</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve entered this as the first Spot the Bird of the new year, but, having set it in the text, I can see that it&#8217;s not much of a challenge. So I made the image small &#8212; like the bird itself.  That might slow you down. (Once you&#8217;ve spotted the bird, however, do click on it to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pondering escalation</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/pondering-escalation</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/pondering-escalation#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 02:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[art/clay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[effigy vessels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reptiles and amphibians]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[three star owl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arizona]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[desertlife]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[effigy vessel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gila monster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[horned lizard]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[phoenix]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[scottsdale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sculpture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Valentine&#8217;s Day week, and I&#8217;m feeling a little sentimental. So here&#8217;s a farewell to a piece that recently found a new home in Florida. It sold from the co-op gallery I&#8217;m involved with &#8212; On the Edge Gallery, a fairly new outlet for Three Star Owl &#8212; and I was there when the customer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catlips</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/close-in/catlips</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/close-in/catlips#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 04:33:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[close in]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[furbearers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the cats]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mellow from basking in the sun on the spiral stairs, the beeyooteeous Miss B was ready for her close-up, not at all a common occurrence.]]></description>
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		<title>Through the woods</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/field-trips/through-the-woods</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/field-trips/through-the-woods#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 03:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[field trips]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://threestarowl.com/?p=16679</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The calendar presses on our shoulders and breathes down our necks, as hard to evade as a lap-seeking, too-hairy cat who won&#8217;t take no for an answer. Progress escapes us in our habitual surroundings. But a change of scene can help, letting concentration in and familiar domestic distraction out through the scathole. So, pursued by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mystery of the One-armed Bandit and other Tales of the Cold War</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/the-mystery-of-the-one-armed-bandit-and-other-tales-of-the-cold-war</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/the-mystery-of-the-one-armed-bandit-and-other-tales-of-the-cold-war#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2013 20:32:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[close in]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Invertebrata]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[natural history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oddities]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://threestarowl.com/?p=16621</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a few days ago, we experienced a rare deep-freeze in the Southwest deserts.  During a normal winter it can get cold in the low desert &#8212; not Canada cold, or even Iowa cold, of course &#8212; but this was an unusually lengthy and deep cold for our desert, sinking well below freezing for several [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thankful for thankfulness</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/birds/thankful-for-thankfulness</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/birds/thankful-for-thankfulness#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2012 16:36:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[birds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[close in]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Do you suppose these are spicy? (Ocellated turkey, Meleagris ocellata , photo A.Shock, Chan Chich, Belize)]]></description>
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		<title>Little-known avifauna of the desert southwest</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/little-known-avifauna-of-the-desert-southwest</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/little-known-avifauna-of-the-desert-southwest#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2012 14:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[art/clay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[birds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oddities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spot the bird]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My iPhone4, its OS, and its apps are getting creaky old, but they&#8217;ve still got what it takes to manage an image of the rare Three-beaked Raven (Corvus cerberus), turning over stones for whatever reasons ravens do.  Someone alert the Cryptobiologists.  And, Happy Halloween!]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Halloween!</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/happy-halloween-3</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/happy-halloween-3#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2012 19:08:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[natural history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oddities]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://threestarowl.com/?p=16585</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Halloween Greetings to all, with the assistance of a cobweb-and-leaf &#8220;Owl&#8221; in a tree hollow! The spooky holiday is just too tempting an occasion to resist re-posting this delightfully faux fowl I found on a hike in the fall woods of Cape Cod a few years ago. (photo A.Shock)]]></description>
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		<title>Executive &#8220;fail&#8221;!</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/uncategorized/executive-fail</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/uncategorized/executive-fail#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 21:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[art/clay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[three star owl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arizona]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[On The Edge Gallery]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://threestarowl.com/?p=16576</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[No one said all artists are good business people!  Frinstance, I just noticed that I hadn&#8217;t updated the Three Star Owl events page in like, all year&#8230; ¡Fail! But now it&#8217;s current.  So, if you&#8217;re wondering where to find Three Star Owl this holiday season, click here (or the Events tab across the top of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It was just sitting there&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/it-was-just-sitting-there</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/it-was-just-sitting-there#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 00:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[birds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[close in]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://threestarowl.com/?p=16567</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;so I walked up to it and took its picture. It&#8217;s an immature Costa&#8217;s hummingbird sitting on a thorny throne below the deep dark of our Texas Ebony&#8217;s canopy.  Imperfectly sharp as it is, it was a lucky shot in the shade &#8212; with no flash, trying to hold the telephoto lens still.  There are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just a pretty</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/just-a-pretty</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/just-a-pretty#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 05:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://threestarowl.com/?p=16549</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s some eye-candy to bring in the new month: a Photoshop-edited photo of the Cooper&#8217;s hawk (who may have eaten Hoover) I posted about a few days ago &#62;&#62; Sometimes what begins as a technically sub-standard photographic capture &#8212; like this image taken in difficult light through grimy double-paned glass, a bug screen, and security [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Subsequent &#8220;toad&#8221; extractions</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/subsequent-toad-extractions</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/subsequent-toad-extractions#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2012 18:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[close in]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[nidification]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Spadefoots by the yard]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[arizona]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[couch's spadefoot]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[rescue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scaphiopus couchii]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Tis the Season. Every morning when I get up, I check the pool for unintentional overnight swimmers. Usually there&#8217;s nothing, but when there is it&#8217;s often a sunspider, or a scorpion, or beetle; sometimes it&#8217;s a hapless mammal like a pocket mouse. Sometimes it&#8217;s a rescue, sometimes a recovery, to use the clear but courteously [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Touch the Tiny Toad!</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/touch-the-tiny-toad</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/touch-the-tiny-toad#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2012 14:56:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monday was International Touch the Tiny Toad Day, with bonus Whiptail.  I guess the whiptail makes it more correctly International Touch the Reptile Day, except it wasn&#8217;t international, it was just in our yard, and a toad isn&#8217;t a reptile, but then again, it was a tiny Spadefoot, which isn&#8217;t a toad but a toad-like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Imagining the shape of a bird</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/imagining-the-shape-of-a-bird</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/events/imagining-the-shape-of-a-bird#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2012 06:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[birds]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I presented the following essay, written especially for the occasion, at &#8220;Sonoran Stories: for the Birds&#8220;, a story-telling event held at  of Audubon Arizona&#8217;s Nina Mason Pulliam Rio Salado Center, on 23 Sept 2012. It was part of a benefit for Sonoran Desert Heritage&#8216;s efforts to preserve 750,000 acres of desert in Western Maricopa County.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hoover-hoover</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/hoover-hoover</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/hoover-hoover#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2012 00:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://threestarowl.com/?p=16405</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s ba-ack. Last January, a Cooper&#8217;s hawk snatched our neighborhood feral African Collared Dove, &#8220;Hoover&#8221; off of the roof of my studio and ate him, then quickly left the vicinity.  It was sad, but we told ourselves at least Hoover&#8217;s nutritional content probably fueled the hawk&#8217;s migration back to its breeding grounds. Again, we were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fall, reboot</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/fall-reboot</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/fall-reboot#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 00:22:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent storms washed out the dust and the worst of the heat, even rinsing the moisture from the air.  Plants, lizards, soil, and birds are refreshed, drinking up the free water and puffing out with infant leaves and fresh plumage, strong and bright like spring&#8217;s new sprouts, a second spring before winter. The migrants [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The thing on the balcony railing</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/the-cats/the-thing-on-the-balcony-railing</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/the-cats/the-thing-on-the-balcony-railing#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2012 14:54:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[furbearers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a sight I often wake up to: a looming goofy fluffwad with alien eyes strung along the hand rail of the little loft over the bed, like a leopard on a limb. If it looks dangerous, it probably is.  I don&#8217;t mean the cat; he&#8217;s a pussycat.  I mean dangerous to do, because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s good to be a vulture!</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/its-good-to-be-a-vulture</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/events/its-good-to-be-a-vulture#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2012 23:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wishing everyone a happy International Vulture Awareness Day! I almost let it slip by due to inattention, but then there it was &#8212; a Turkey Vulture, Cathartes aura, teetering over our neighborhood, low over the end of the street, and I remembered that today&#8217;s their day! And let me just add: PERVIOUS NOSTRIL!  No carrion-clogged [...]]]></description>
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		<title>That&#8217;s just how we roll around here</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/thats-just-how-we-roll-around-here</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/thats-just-how-we-roll-around-here#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2012 17:21:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two dung beetles (Canthon sp) rolling their skilfully shaped bit of a fresh cow-pie back to their abode.  No effort spared.  It&#8217;s what they do. Right now, I empathize.  But remember, the lowly dung beetle is a type of Scarab.  It&#8217;s said that to the ancient Egyptians the scarab and its dung ball symbolized the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cranky Owlet wonders&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/three-star-owl/cranky-owlet-wonders</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/three-star-owl/cranky-owlet-wonders#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2012 19:18:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://threestarowl.com/?p=16318</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;. where the hell everyone&#8217;s been since last september.]]></description>
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		<title>Peach people</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/peach-people</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/peach-people#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Aug 2012 05:48:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While a longer post about Gulf Fritillaries is in progress, please enjoy these images of Rosy-faced Lovebirds (formerly Peach-faced Lovebirds, Agapornis roseicollis) feeding on our sunflowers one gray morning earlier this month. Rosy-faced Lovebird cling-feeding on sunflowers (photos A.Shock) Having learned the older name, E and I still refer to them as Peach People (or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unleash the hounds!</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/unleash-the-hounds</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/unleash-the-hounds#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 03:07:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Actually, hopefully not. Here is the much anticipated Birthday Falcon still in its protective cello wrap with best-seller badge and restrainedly celebratory gift ribbon.  I just retrieved it home after a visit with Kate, who presented it to me.  It has &#8220;good feathery detail,&#8221; although it&#8217;s something of a chimera, with the head of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spot the Bird, canine edition</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/spot-the-bird-canine-edition</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/spot-the-bird-canine-edition#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2012 14:18:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[furbearers]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://threestarowl.com/?p=16264</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Our fence had some extra height this morning, and a glorious tail.  Do you see the fur anomaly?  I&#8217;m pretty sure it sees you. It was obliging, and let itself be fully revealed.  Such a kitty-dog!  That&#8217;s a 6-foot wall it leaped upon with little effort.  They regularly use the block walls in the neighborhood like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Javelinas in the sky</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/javelinas-in-the-sky</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2012 15:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://threestarowl.com/?p=16211</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A series of deadlines are keeping me chained to the studio bench, more or less, but I slipped my shackles yesterday to grab some groceries. The National Weather Service was predicting a monsoon event in the afternoon, but I figured I had time to run out for some bread and fruit. The hot blue bowl [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I AM a scorpion&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/i-am-a-scorpion</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2012 16:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://threestarowl.com/?p=16181</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[But a very, very, VERY tiny one. This morning we rescued this young scorpion from the pool, where it was stuck limbs akimbo to the surface tension of the water, sending out tiny struggling ripples. Since little scorpions look just like big scorpions except small, a close-up like this one doesn&#8217;t provide any clue to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I am NOT a tick&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/i-am-not-a-tick</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/i-am-not-a-tick#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2012 01:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..or a scorpion! Fear me only if you are a springtail, or a mite, or any arthropod smaller than me.  I am the size of a lentil, so although my scissor-like pincers look fierce and outsized for my body, and the pedipalps wielding them are Popeye strong and elbowy, you are a looming threat &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fiery forest revisited</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/fiery-forest-revisited</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/fiery-forest-revisited#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2012 06:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Exactly one year ago this month, the White Mountains of eastern Arizona were ablaze with the Wallow Fire, the largest fire in state history.  The human-caused fire scorched more than 530,000 acres in four counties in Arizona and one in New Mexico, significantly damaging or destroying hundreds of thousands of acres of wilderness habitat, as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Secret rock</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/secret-rock</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2012 04:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An outcrop in a high treeless field, slightly moister than the flat ground around it, sheltered ferns and flowers: golden columbine, and clusters of wild iris. The columbine was just starting, but the iris was spent, each stalk bearing a papery brown remainder of spring. All but this late blossom, which was still blue against [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pink eye door</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/pink-eye-door</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/pink-eye-door#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have not been stuffing our keyhole with magenta tissue paper. The local leaf-cutter bees have been trimming neat circles out of fresh, hot pink Bougainvillea bracts and carefully layering them with pollen in a tubular nest for their eggs. The eggs will hatch into grubs &#8212; females deepest* so that the woodpecker or cactus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Happened at Beit Bat Ya&#8217;anah: Part 17</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/what-happened-at-beit-bat-yaanah-part-17</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/what-happened-at-beit-bat-yaanah-part-17#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 05:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the latest installment of the series. The following links will take you to the last episode before this one, and the very first episode of the series.  Also, each post has a link at the bottom to the next episode after it: Read Part 16 ……………………………….For new readers: Read Part 1 Previously: The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snake-snacks</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/snake-snacks</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/snake-snacks#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2012 03:49:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[birds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doom and gloom]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[nidification]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, we discovered that one of our local Gambel&#8217;s quail pairs had nested in an aloe bed at the foot of the back garden wall. The pale, speckled eggs were tucked deep into a hollow among the spiky aloe leaves &#8212; real Spot the Bird material &#8212; they&#8217;re barely visible inside the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twilight turtle tale</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/twilight-turtle-tale</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/twilight-turtle-tale#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jun 2012 03:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[close in]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Papago Park]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[rescue]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Driving home with E from campus this evening, we saw a turtle in the street. It was at the corner of Curry and Mill, lodged uncomfortably against the curb, traffic whizzing past just inches away &#8212; stranded halfway between the green lagoons of the Zoo and Tempe Town Lake, but blocks from either. Heroically, E [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s play Spot the Lagomorph</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/lets-play-spot-the-lagomorph</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/lets-play-spot-the-lagomorph#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2012 12:51:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[furbearers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seriously, dude, the ears are a giveaway. A scrape in damp soil in the shade of a shrub is desert cottontail air conditioning on a 100 degree afternoon.  A nearby brushpile makes a good escape plan, and there&#8217;s viral bermuda grass for grazing just a few feet away.  This is the rabbit equivalent of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Up with the sunflowers</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/up-with-the-sunflowers</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/up-with-the-sunflowers#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 14:42:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[birds]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Low desert mornings are beautiful in May and June, the air still cool and crisp before the slight sogginess of monsoon season sets in later in the summer.  The real desert is even cooler, but here in our corner of Phoenix there is enough open saguaro-y space in nearby Papago Park and few enough lawns [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mysteries of the front porch</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/mysteries-of-the-front-porch</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/mysteries-of-the-front-porch#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2012 14:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[close in]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cool bug!]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our front porch doesn&#8217;t get much traffic: the occasional UPS guy, guy leaving door hangers flogging local pizza joints, signature-gatherer, political candidate, stranger, or neighbor will come down our sunbaked, overgrown front walk, all the way from the street to the garage to the front door.  But not very often.  The back door is where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What happened at Beit Bat Ya&#8217;anah: Part 16</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/what-happened-at-beit-bat-yaanah-part-16</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/what-happened-at-beit-bat-yaanah-part-16#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 05:33:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[archaeology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[pseudopod waltz]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is the sixteenth installment of the series. The following links will take you to the last episode before this one, and the very first episode of the series.  Also, each post has a link at the bottom to the next episode after it: Read Part 15 ……………………………….For new readers: Read Part 1 Previously: In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding Birds in Paris (Spot the Bird, Île de France edition), Part 2</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/etymology/finding-birds-in-paris-spot-the-bird-ile-de-france-edition-part-2</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/etymology/finding-birds-in-paris-spot-the-bird-ile-de-france-edition-part-2#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 18:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[birding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[birds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[etymology/words]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[oddities]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our recent visit to Paris was shaped to some degree by the insistence of April on barging into May: cool temperatures and showers persisted for much of the trip.  We were prepared, and rain is not a problem that sweaters, umbrellas, and sturdy footwear can&#8217;t handle &#8212; except on the one morning we had determined [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I spy with my little pine: solar crescent-eye</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/i-spy-with-my-little-pine-solar-crescent-eye</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/i-spy-with-my-little-pine-solar-crescent-eye#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 17:39:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[natural history]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since we aren&#8217;t equipped to either observe or photograph solar eclipses directly, E and I took to the yard during Sunday evening&#8217;s event to seek indirect eclipse images instead.  The classic pinhole method is simple and adequate &#8212; poke a small hole in foil or stiff cardboard, and let the sun shine through the hole [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding birds in Paris (or Spot the Bird Île de France edition) Part 1</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/birds/finding-birds-in-paris-or-spot-the-bird-ile-de-france-edition-part-1</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/birds/finding-birds-in-paris-or-spot-the-bird-ile-de-france-edition-part-1#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 23:20:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[birding]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://threestarowl.com/?p=15158</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s deal with this straight away: if you&#8217;re a birder tuning in to learn where to find birds in Paris, then, despite its clear title &#8220;Finding Birds in Paris&#8221;, I&#8217;m afraid this two-part post will disappoint.  It is not intended to offer technical advice about how many species of mésange you might see in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A sketchy bird list</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/a-sketchy-bird-list</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/a-sketchy-bird-list#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:21:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[art/clay]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not keen on enacting the Mad Dogs and Englishmen scenario, E and I lounged for a couple of hours during the heat of the day in the shade of a wild palm grove last weekend. &#60;&#60; Southwest Palm Grove, Tierra Blanca Mountains, Anza-Borrego State Park (photo A.Shock) This is a well-known oasis, and not terribly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The desert between</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/the-desert-between</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/the-desert-between#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 21:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[birds]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It exhibits questionable judgment to leave Phoenix right now when the Sonoran desert is so beautiful, but we did.  In a fit of really-needing-to-get-out-of-town E and I enacted a spur of the moment plan for a busman&#8217;s holiday of camping in the Colorado desert*.  We took off down I-8 in the footsteps of Juan Bautista [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What happened at Beit Bat Ya&#8217;anah: part 15</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/what-happened-at-beit-bat-yaanah-part-15</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/what-happened-at-beit-bat-yaanah-part-15#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:25:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[archaeology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[pseudopod waltz]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is the fifteenth installment of the series. The following links will take you to the last episode before this one, and the very first episode of the series: Read Part 14 ………………………………………………………………….For new readers: Read Part 1 Previously: Having extended her time at Beit Bat Ya&#8217;anah to try to learn more about Szeringka&#8217;s elusive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hoover&#8217;s hooves</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/birds/hoovers-hooves</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/birds/hoovers-hooves#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 20:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[birds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hoover the Dove]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[yard list]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a couple of months since the Cooper&#8217;s hawk (now long gone to its more northern, mountainous summer home) ate Hoover, the feral African Collared Dove who shared our garden.  I&#8217;m not mourning him &#8212; in fact I&#8217;m thankful that a proper wild hawk absorbed his nutrients and energy instead of a second-storey window [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tweaked titmouse: blame the weather</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/tweaked-titmouse-blame-the-weather</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/tweaked-titmouse-blame-the-weather#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s weather has been changeable, to understate the case.  After a week of early warmth, winter has barged back into the low desert in the form of a March Pacific storm, bringing intermittent rain, gusty winds, spotty sunshine, and nippy (for us) temperatures. Folding clean laundry was the other option, so I chose fiddling on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s not all about owls&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/its-not-all-about-owls</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/events/its-not-all-about-owls#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 04:44:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[art/clay]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; it just seems like it sometimes. This Friday Saturday and Sunday, from 10am &#8211; 5pm March 9, 10, 11, it&#8217;s time for the spring Camelback Studio Tour, and if you visit the Sherwood Heights neighborhood of south Scottsdale, you can find lots of things besides owls, even at Three Star Owl Studio (Studio #3 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Schmooey</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/schmooey</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/schmooey#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 05:38:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again, and for the usual reason, my blog posts have dwindled to a sticky, paltry stream with occasional tart strands of zest, like marmalade that didn&#8217;t set.  It seems that when I really have to turn on the afterburners in the clay studio to meet a deadline, my brain shunts itself into non-writing mode.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In memorian Hoover</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/birds/in-memorian-hoover</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/birds/in-memorian-hoover#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:49:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[birds]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hoover, the semi-tame feral African Collared Dove who frequented our yard, is no more. I&#8217;ve been postponing the task of writing an obit for a couple of weeks, hoping that the white dove taken by the wintering Cooper&#8217;s hawk wasn&#8217;t Hoover.  But I can&#8217;t put it off: we no longer hear his soft, two-note cooing, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What happened at Beit Bat Ya&#8217;anah: part 14</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/what-happened-at-beit-bat-yaanah-part-14</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/what-happened-at-beit-bat-yaanah-part-14#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:35:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: I&#8217;ve just made it easier to navigate between episodes of What Happened at Beit Bat Ya&#8217;anah. Now at the beginning of each new episode there are links to previous installments: one to the immediately previous episode, and one to the very first episode.  In addition, there&#8217;s a link at the end of each episode [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not my hen</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/not-my-hen</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/not-my-hen#comments</comments>
		<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>Willcox at eye level</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/willcox-at-eye-level</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/events/willcox-at-eye-level#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:15:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like the Sandhill cranes, I usually visit Willcox in the winter.  That&#8217;s when the town hosts Wings Over Willcox, a birding and cultural event celebrating the cold season presence of Sandhill cranes, who dwell in the fields and wetlands of the Sulphur Springs Valley from October to March.  (below, Stewart St. in Willcox AZ.  Photo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crane-o-rama!</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/crane-o-rama</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/events/crane-o-rama#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 19:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tens of thousands of Sandhill cranes winter in the fields and wetlands of far southeastern Arizona each year, and they have their own festival: Wings Over Willcox, held in mid-January by the historical community of Willcox, AZ. This year is the 19th Annual WOW Festival, and it&#8217;s part of SE Arizona&#8217;s celebration of the state [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What happened at Beit Bat Ya&#8217;anah: part 13</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/what-happened-at-beit-bat-yaanah-part-13</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/what-happened-at-beit-bat-yaanah-part-13#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 04:16:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[archaeology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note to readers: It&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve had the time to advance the tale of the archæological site called Beit Bat Ya&#8217;anah and its inhabitants. The progress of Professor Einer Wayfarer&#8217;s efforts on that remote ridge in the Negev Desert to observe the seemingly out-of-place and elusive protégé of her controversial colleague Avsa [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moonshots</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/moonshots</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/moonshots#comments</comments>
		<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>Last chance to see&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/last-chance-to-see</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/events/last-chance-to-see#comments</comments>
		<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)]]></description>
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		<title>El Guajolote Supremo</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/birds/el-guajolote-supremo</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/birds/el-guajolote-supremo#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 05:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photo of an Ocellated Turkey, Chan Chich, Belize (A or E Shock) More photos here.]]></description>
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		<title>Tale of Two Tiny Tarantulas</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/tale-of-two-tiny-tarantulas</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/tale-of-two-tiny-tarantulas#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 06:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On our way home from our weekend getaway, E and I stopped at Montezuma Well National Monument.  It&#8217;s one of our favorite places: a compact confluence of archæology, geology, and natural history. If you haven&#8217;t been there while visiting central Arizona, I highly recommend it. &#62;&#62; Montezuma Well and beautiful fall color (all photos in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gratuitous Arizona scenery</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/field-trips/gratuitous-arizona-scenery</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/field-trips/gratuitous-arizona-scenery#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 05:28:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[E and I managed a bit of a getaway northward this weekend.   We&#8217;re back home now, unsure if we were gone a month or a minute.  But I&#8217;ll be putting up some images from the trip to prove we were somewhere else, for however long it was.  Here&#8217;s one from late Sunday afternoon, of yuccas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Her majesty deigns to be photographed</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/her-majesty-deigns-to-be-photographed</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/her-majesty-deigns-to-be-photographed#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/pick-of-the-litter</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/events/pick-of-the-litter#comments</comments>
		<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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kea key: spoiler alert!</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/birds/kea-key-spoiler-alert</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/birds/kea-key-spoiler-alert#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You probably found the bird already &#8212; it&#8217;s a kea &#8212; but if not below is a partially colorized version of the photo in the previous Spot the Bird post. This big alpine parrot, its head partially obscured by vegetation, was one of the freeloaders who hang out near the line of cars waiting to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spot the Bird!</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/spot-the-bird</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/spot-the-bird#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 02:16:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Me: reminiscing about our trip to New Zealand a while back.  You: trying to Spot the Bird. It shouldn&#8217;t be too hard, but here&#8217;s a hint: you&#8217;re looking for a parrot.  Now don&#8217;t go clicking on the photo to enlarge it right off the bat, you&#8217;ll make it too easy!  (And, by the way, it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8230;more Three Star Owl news&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/more-three-star-owl-news</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/events/more-three-star-owl-news#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 22:37:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deadlines, shows, and orders have been keeping me busy in the studio the past few weeks as the pre-holiday calendar winds up to year&#8217;s end.  Not complaining!  But, I have noticed that recently this space has been more full than usual of Three Star Owl news and less full of natural history, birds, and fiction [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Halloween!</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/owls/happy-halloween-2</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/owls/happy-halloween-2#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not a real owl!  I photographed this owlmorphic clump of cobwebs and autumn leaves in a tree hollow on Cape Cod in 2007.]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Owl Face</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/happy-owl-face</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/events/happy-owl-face#comments</comments>
		<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>One more day &#8212; Camelback Studio Tour</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/one-more-day-camelback-studio-tour</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/events/one-more-day-camelback-studio-tour#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 05:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the little white booth in the desert.  It&#8217;s Three Star Owl&#8216;s show tent, currently set up in the backyard for the Camelback Studio Tour and housing an ever-decreasing number of objects.  It&#8217;s great fun to have people drop in and peruse the selection, marvel at E&#8216;s epic number of specimen cactus and succulents, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Come visit the Ossuary</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/come-visit-the-ossuary</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/events/come-visit-the-ossuary#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 23:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next Friday Saturday and Sunday Oct 21, 22, 23,  is the Camelback Studio Tour, and Three Star Owl will have wares available for you to peruse and perhaps purchase. Other artists&#8217; studios nearby in the neighborhood will be open as well, with more than 20 artists offering their art for pre-holiday shopping. Support local artists [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Upcoming Three Star Owl manifestations</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/upcoming-three-star-owl-manifestations</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/events/upcoming-three-star-owl-manifestations#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 15:29:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of Three Star Owl events you should know about are coming right up &#8212; these are your only two chances for pre-holiday shopping for Beastieware, Wazzoware and the like.  Both are Phoenix-area events: The first is the Camelback Studio Tour, Fri Sat and Sun October 21 22 23, from 10am to 5pm.  My [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spot the bird (easy)</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/spot-the-bird-easy</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/spot-the-bird-easy#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 04:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, I realize that this is a very easy Spot the Bird.  Although it was hiding among the lower branches of a mesquite, the bird is very easy to spot, here in the photo.  But, driving past, not so easy.  And it doesn&#8217;t think it&#8217;s easy to spot.  The bird, a Greater Roadrunner, thinks it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cranky Owlet is having&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/cranky-owlet/cranky-owlet-is-having</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/cranky-owlet/cranky-owlet-is-having#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 04:51:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;a bad hair day.]]></description>
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		<title>Categorical gory detail</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/three-star-owl/categorical-gory-detail</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/three-star-owl/categorical-gory-detail#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 00:53:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[three star owl]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Most readers probably follow this blog by reading day-to-day, post-to-post as new entries are uploaded &#8212; I appreciate that: thanks for reading! Here&#8217;s another way to view the Three Star Owl journal &#8212; by categories. In case you haven&#8217;t noticed them, categories are the long list of words partway down the left-hand side-bar. It&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drawn in: The Curious Case of the Owl in the Notebook</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/drawn-in-the-curious-case-of-the-owl-in-the-notebook</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/drawn-in-the-curious-case-of-the-owl-in-the-notebook#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:11:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[art/clay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drawn in]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[effigy vessels]]></category>
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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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Face of a Sphinx</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/face-of-a-sphinx</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/face-of-a-sphinx#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 17:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[close in]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cool bug!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doom and gloom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Invertebrata]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[natural history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[yard list]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The morning after our latest haboob I found an expiring Sphinx moth, battered by the winds and on its last legs.  It was a big one, not as colorful as some, but marked like bark in black and white, with three orange spots on its abdomen.  It&#8217;s a fairly large animal: about three inches long, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Haboob-o-rama</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/haboob-o-rama</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/haboob-o-rama#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 06:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[natural history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unexpected]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[yard list]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This summer, there&#8217;s been much haboobery in the Phoenix area, causing a veritable Haboob-O-Rama.  Just this evening (Sunday) we had what was by my count the fourth significant dust storm of the 2011 monsoon season, which should be winding down, but isn&#8217;t.  There&#8217;s still dust in our yard from the first big one, which came [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tiny jumper</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/tiny-jumper</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/tiny-jumper#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 00:18:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[close in]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cool bug!]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[natural history]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Doesn&#8217;t it look like a Jeep? Those dark &#8220;headlights&#8221; are eyes, which jumping spiders, unlike most spiders, rely on to hunt.  I can count three pairs: two on the front (big and little) and one on the side (little).  See &#8216;em?  There may be more&#8230; We photographed this tiny jumping spider before relocating it outside, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you aware of vultures?</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/are-you-aware-of-vultures</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/events/are-you-aware-of-vultures#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2011 03:14:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[birds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[close in]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Events]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[They&#8217;re aware of you!!  It&#8217;s International Vulture Awareness Day, so look alive&#8230; &#60;&#60; Turkey vulture, Cathartes aura.  (Photo A.Shock) Please to note the Pervious Nostril! Click here for more information.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Anna&#8217;s on an aloe</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/annas-on-an-aloe</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/annas-on-an-aloe#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 02:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[birds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hummingbirds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[natural history]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This isn&#8217;t a short-billed hummer, it&#8217;s just that the resolution on a zoom photo wasn&#8217;t up to capturing the thin bill against the rough-textured block wall.  Still, pretty good for a phone camera. (photo by A.Shock)]]></description>
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		<title>What happened at Beit Bat Ya&#8217;anah: part 12</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/what-happened-at-beit-bat-yaanah-part-12</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/what-happened-at-beit-bat-yaanah-part-12#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 17:02:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[archaeology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[art/clay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[artefaux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beit Bat Ya'anah]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is the twelfth installment of a series. There’s a link at the bottom of the page to the thirteenth installment.  Read Part 11 by clicking here, or start at the very beginning by clicking here. Previously: After encountering an anomalous fragment of pottery decorated with a bee and a possible flower, the Beit Bat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tucson in the rearview mirror: and&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/tucson-in-the-rearview-mirror-and</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/events/tucson-in-the-rearview-mirror-and#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 05:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[art/clay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[effigy vessels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[field trips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reptiles and amphibians]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I rolled back into Phoenix from Tucson earlier today &#8212; the drive seemed nearly instantaneous and was marvelously uneventful, although I did miss the bumper crop of towering dust devils swirling in the dry creosote flats on the Gila River reservation that I&#8217;d seen on the way down but was unable to photograph safely from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Owl whistle necklaces</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/owl-whistle-necklaces</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/owl-whistle-necklaces#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 04:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[art/clay]]></category>
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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>Postcard from Tucson</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/postcard-from-tucson</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/events/postcard-from-tucson#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 19:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[art/clay]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three Star Owl is at the Tucson Bird and Wildlife Festival, at the Riverpark Inn just west of I-10 at the Congress Ave exit. I&#8217;ll be here from 8 to 5 today and tomorrow (Friday and Saturday 19-20 Aug). Come by soon, things are finding new homes at a fast clip!]]></description>
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		<title>Blue moon month for Three Star Owl!</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/blue-moon-month-for-three-star-owl</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/events/blue-moon-month-for-three-star-owl#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 02:07:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, it&#8217;s never happened before, but Three Star Owl has two sales events in southern Arizona in less than two weeks! Frog skeleton creamer (approx 4&#8243; ht) &#62;&#62; Close on the heels of the Southwest Wings Festival, Three Star Owl will be at the first ever Tucson Audubon Society&#8217;s Tucson Bird and Wildlife Festival this [...]]]></description>
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