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		<title>Night Sounds</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 04:50:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tinag46</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Backyard birding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[backyard birds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bird migration]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just came in from taking down my bird feeders, after first spending 10 minutes trying to scare the coons out of my yard.  By the way, these are the two coons living in my attic that I just paid $500 for critter control to trap and relocate.  They obviously aren&#8217;t drawn to the Cheeto-baited trap [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebirdsoftheair.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11852822&amp;post=613&amp;subd=thebirdsoftheair&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Update on the Skimmer Deaths at Rockport Beach Park</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 22:19:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tinag46</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Birds in the news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Texas birds in the news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[birds Rockport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birdwatching Rockport Texas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good news for next year&#8217;s nesting birds  at Rockport Beach Park.  The City of Rockport is making plans to add a gate and fencing to block off the nesting area during high water when birds are forced onto the roadway.   More warning signs will be placed around the area and a decrease in the speed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebirdsoftheair.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11852822&amp;post=606&amp;subd=thebirdsoftheair&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Senseless Killing &#8211; The Almost Epilogue</title>
		<link>http://thebirdsoftheair.wordpress.com/2010/07/21/senseless-killing-the-almost-epilogue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 03:40:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tinag46</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Texas birds in the news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[birdwatching Rockport]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aransas Bird and Nature Club]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It looks like the police may be getting close to arresting the criminals responsible for the intentional killing of 39 Black Skimmer chicks at Rockport Beach rookery earlier this month.    Two teenagers are under investigation and may be facing charges very soon.  So why do I have an (unfounded but cynical) feeling that kids whose values [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebirdsoftheair.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11852822&amp;post=595&amp;subd=thebirdsoftheair&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Senseless Killing</title>
		<link>http://thebirdsoftheair.wordpress.com/2010/07/12/senseless-killing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 05:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[nesting birds]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine the newborn nursery of any moderate-sized hospital, with its squalling, squirming babies, hours hold and full of life.  Now imagine some hateful monster driving a pick-up truck through that nursery, killing 2 out of every 10.  That&#8217;s the kind of carnage that happened on the night of July 1st  when some #%$#! jerk moved a barricade [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebirdsoftheair.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11852822&amp;post=578&amp;subd=thebirdsoftheair&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Happenings</title>
		<link>http://thebirdsoftheair.wordpress.com/2010/07/05/summer-happenings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tinag46</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bird Species]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Texas birding sites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trip Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[birdwatching Rockport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sooty Tern]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hurricane Alex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rockport Texas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Skimmer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Texas Botanical Gardens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birding corpus christi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend I dropped my kids off at their grandparents in Corpus Christi again for another weeklong stay.  The grandparents are in their mid-70&#8242;s so long visits work out best if they&#8217;re broken up a week at a time.   The worn out grandparents need some recovery time.  This coming week is football camp (uuchhh); two weeks ago it was a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebirdsoftheair.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11852822&amp;post=544&amp;subd=thebirdsoftheair&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Flowers</title>
		<link>http://thebirdsoftheair.wordpress.com/2010/06/10/539/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:34:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tinag46</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The rain has been just perfect this year and the wildflowers are still going strong in some places.  The Indian Paintblankets behind my house are fighting for space with the tall summer grasses. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebirdsoftheair.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11852822&amp;post=539&amp;subd=thebirdsoftheair&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Idle Fantasies</title>
		<link>http://thebirdsoftheair.wordpress.com/2010/06/05/idle-fantasies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 22:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tinag46</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Birds in the news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BP oil spill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Petroleum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Halliburton gulf oil spill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Louisiana oil spill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rod Dreher Crunchy Con]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just a little fantasy of mine&#8230;. I want to put every BP and Halliburton executive in a wooden boat and set it afire with the oil-soaked bodies of dead and dying birds and sea turtles.   I also fantasize about U.S. citizens outside the state of Louisiana protesting, picketing, and getting active on this issue.  Where [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebirdsoftheair.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11852822&amp;post=525&amp;subd=thebirdsoftheair&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Kaleidoscope Bird</title>
		<link>http://thebirdsoftheair.wordpress.com/2010/05/31/the-kaleidoscope-bird/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 18:07:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tinag46</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Backyard birding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bird Species]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Backyard birding Texas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homemade birdbath dripper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Painted Buntings]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Amber at Birder&#8217;s Lounge got me all fired up about Painted Buntings with a recent post about their pretty backsides.  (I seem to get lots of photos of bird butts too &#8211; they never seem to give me a good face-on shot.)  So, early Sunday morning  before church I went out into the greenbelt  behind my house [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebirdsoftheair.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11852822&amp;post=492&amp;subd=thebirdsoftheair&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Wow Bird at Warbler Woods Sanctuary</title>
		<link>http://thebirdsoftheair.wordpress.com/2010/05/18/a-wow-bird-at-warbler-woods-sanctuary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 04:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tinag46</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bird Species]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Texas birding sites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Groove-billed Ani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Schertz Texas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Warbler Woods Bird Sanctuary]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This past Saturday the most unexpected bird appeared at Warbler Woods Sanctuary in Schertz, Texas, and some lucky visitors, myself included, got to see great views.  It was a Groove-billed Ani and I am kicking myself for not bringing a camera along.  I made a quick run out Saturday afternoon following a couple of long Kung [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebirdsoftheair.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11852822&amp;post=465&amp;subd=thebirdsoftheair&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Back from North Carolina</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 03:50:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Appalachian State University]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry it&#8217;s been so long since I last posted.  It&#8217;s not because I haven&#8217;t been birding, but more out of laziness and my distraction with an upcoming martial arts test (it&#8217;s the biggie &#8211; 1st degree black belt and there&#8217;s nothing more embarrasing than not knowing your stuff). Anyway, I got back May 11th from my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebirdsoftheair.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11852822&amp;post=441&amp;subd=thebirdsoftheair&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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