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<title>Great Backyard Bird Count turns 15</title>
<description><![CDATA[    The Great Backyard Bird Count marks its 15th anniversary during Presidents Day weekend, Feb. 17-20. A joint project of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the National Audubon Society, and Bird Studies Canada, this popular citizen science project is an opp...]]></description>
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<title>Snakes taking over Everglades</title>
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Sat, 28 Jan 2012 23:00:00 -0500
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<title>From the ‘small world file</title>
<description><![CDATA[    The second day of my trip to Ecuador back in September found me at Mindo Loma (<a href="http://www.mindolomacloudforest.com" title="http://www.mindolomacloudforest.com" target="_blank">www.mindolomacloudforest.com</a>), about two hours northwest of Qui...]]></description>
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<title>Sharks eat land birds disoriented over Gulf of Mexico</title>
<description><![CDATA[    Reproduction and feather molt are two of the most energetically demanding aspects of birds lives. The breeding season can last five months or longer, and feather molt can take six to 10 weeks. Just finding enough food to stay alive during these stressf...]]></description>
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<title>Stamps have gone wild for years</title>
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<title>The Wild Side: Border strategies affect wildlife</title>
<description><![CDATA[      CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- What a difference a thousand miles can make.  Along the U.S.-Canada border, people and wildlife pass relatively freely. Most wildlife crossings go unnoticed. Wolves, bears and moose have no need for borders.  But every few years ...]]></description>
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<title>The Wild Side: Birds enjoy a late Christmas breakfast</title>
<description><![CDATA[          CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Every December I get requests to reprint my take-off on Twas the Night before Christmas that first appeared in 1988. By popular demand, Merry Christmas everyone.  <strong>The Morning of Christmas </strong>(with apologies to C...]]></description>
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<title>It pays to watch animal behavior in the woods</title>
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Sat, 17 Dec 2011 23:00:00 -0500
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<title>Hummingbirds at Guango Lodge put on a show</title>
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Sat, 10 Dec 2011 23:00:00 -0500
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<title>Woodpeckers love suet</title>
<description><![CDATA[    The Saturday after Thanksgiving a pileated woodpecker made my day. For the first time in more than 20 years, I saw one of these crow-sized hammerheads at my suet feeder. It returned several times over a 30-minute span.  I cant explain why I had never s...]]></description>
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Sat, 03 Dec 2011 23:00:00 -0500
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<title>Outdoors books make good gifts</title>
<description><![CDATA[        Fall is a busy season for publishers of nature and outdoor-themed books. They make perfect Christmas gifts. Here are some recent titles I recommend for the readers on your list.  &quot;Carnivores of the World&quot; by Luke Hunter (2111, Princeton U...]]></description>
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Sat, 26 Nov 2011 23:00:00 -0500
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<title>Best coffee made in the shade</title>
<description><![CDATA[    Next time youre grocery shopping, try finding a bag of &quot;environmentally friendly&quot; coffee. But dont be fooled by deceptive packaging. Just because a bag has an image of a bird on it doesnt mean its &quot;green.&quot;  Americans drink 400 milli...]]></description>
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Sat, 19 Nov 2011 23:00:00 -0500
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<title>Bird magazines make great gifts</title>
<description><![CDATA[    Information about wild birds is widely available online and in books, professional journals, and a handful of popular magazines. Superficially, the magazines seem redundant, but upon closer inspection each has found its own niche. A subscription to a b...]]></description>
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Sat, 12 Nov 2011 17:07:56 -0500
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<title>Get ready: Here comes winter</title>
<description><![CDATA[    A few weeks ago the temperature dropped below 30 degrees, and the first winter feeder birds, white-throated sparrows and dark-eyed juncos, showed up. That means its time to get serious about preparing backyard bird-feeding stations.   First, make sure ...]]></description>
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Sat, 05 Nov 2011 23:00:00 -0400
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<title>Comedy offers realistic look at birders</title>
<description><![CDATA[    About a year ago when I heard Hollywood was making a movie of Mark Obmasciks 2004 book, &quot;The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession,&quot; I worried. I feared it would make a joke of birders and birding. Remember Jane Hathaway on the ...]]></description>
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<title>Not all firewood is created equal</title>
<description><![CDATA[      If you have trees in the backyard, value and protect them. Trees filter and transport water through forest ecosystems. Their roots reduce erosion by binding the soil. They minimize flood damage by soaking up heavy rains. Their shade helps cool the ho...]]></description>
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Sat, 22 Oct 2011 23:00:00 -0400
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<title>Feed the birds; avoid the deer</title>
<description><![CDATA[    October brings two wildlife concerns to mind -- feeding birds and avoiding deer on the highway.  With sunflower seed prices at an all-time high, Im beginning to rethink the foods I offer my backyard birds. If Im going to pay 60 to 70 cents per pound fo...]]></description>
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<title>Birders are trophy hunters in search of memories</title>
<description><![CDATA[        Among hunters and anglers a trophy is the mount that hangs on the wall. It is the memory of a conquest.  It can also be a source of controversy. To kill something just to put its head on the wall or its pelt on the floor seems wasteful and unsporti...]]></description>
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Sat, 08 Oct 2011 23:00:00 -0400
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<title>Reserve in Ecuador attracts birders</title>
<description><![CDATA[      Back in 2004, as birding boomed in many Latin American countries, Angel Paz discovered an Andean cock-of-the-rock lek on his familys property in northwestern Ecuador. These chunky, brilliant red birds display on communal mating grounds called leks an...]]></description>
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Sat, 01 Oct 2011 23:00:00 -0400
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<title>Reserve in Ecuador attracts birders</title>
<description><![CDATA[      Back in 2004, as birding boomed in many Latin American countries, Angel Paz discovered an Andean cock-of-the-rock lek on his familys property in northwestern Ecuador. These chunky, brilliant red birds display on communal mating grounds called leks an...]]></description>
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Sat, 01 Oct 2011 23:00:00 -0400
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<title>Dragonfly swarms and bird seed prices</title>
<description><![CDATA[    Some natural phenomena are difficult to study and understand because they occur occasionally, ephemerally and unpredictably. Late summer swarms of dragonflies fall into this category.   Over the last several weeks Ive received many emails and letters f...]]></description>
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Sat, 24 Sep 2011 23:00:00 -0400
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<title>5-year-old obsessed with birds</title>
<description><![CDATA[    Children are never too young to develop an interest in birds. By age 3, my daughters could identify towhees and cardinals by sight and sound. Watching birds at feeders helped them learn colors, numbers, and how to observe and describe behaviors. They l...]]></description>
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Sat, 17 Sep 2011 23:00:00 -0400
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<title>Nature eases lifes pain</title>
<description><![CDATA[    Ten years ago, in the aftermath of 9/11, I was stumped so I wrote about natures September highlights. I touched on fall colors, shorter days, cooler nights, and the migration of birds and monarch butterflies. I concluded, &quot;When I find myself strug...]]></description>
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Sat, 10 Sep 2011 23:00:00 -0400
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<title>The Wild Side: Nature signals coming fall</title>
<description><![CDATA[      CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- On Aug. 25, at a high school football game on Wheeling Island, in the Ohio River, a flock of highflying birds distracted my attention. Shortly before sunset, I counted about 50 common nighthawks swirling and feeding above the sta...]]></description>
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Sat, 03 Sep 2011 23:00:00 -0400
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<title>The Wild Side: Vultures do much of world's dirty work</title>
<description><![CDATA[      CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Next Saturday, Sept. 3, the world observes International Vulture Awareness Day. Because they are the antithesis of cute and cuddly, vultures may seem an odd choice for their very own day. The reason is purely ecological.  Though ...]]></description>
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Sat, 27 Aug 2011 23:00:00 -0400
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<title>Scott Shalaway</title>
<description><![CDATA[        If youve read your fill of thrillers and mysteries this summer, here are a few nonfiction titles to get you into fall.  Two years ago I wrote about an ecological disaster unfolding on Rat Island in the Bering Sea between Siberia and Alaska. Rats de...]]></description>
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Sat, 20 Aug 2011 23:00:00 -0400
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<title>An inordinate fondness for beetles</title>
<description><![CDATA[    Over time, quotations can acquire legendary status. So it is with some words attributed to British evolutionary biologist J.B.S. Haldane (1892-1964). Its said that must when asked what he could infer about the Creator from his career in biology, he rep...]]></description>
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Sat, 13 Aug 2011 23:00:00 -0400
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<title>Killers hunt dog day cicadas</title>
<description><![CDATA[    On hot summer days, the pulsing drone of dog day cicadas reminds us that outside temperatures flirt with 90 degrees. Its also fair warning to be on the lookout for a monstrous insect, the cicada killer.  By insect standards, the cicada killer is huge. ...]]></description>
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Sat, 06 Aug 2011 23:00:00 -0400
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<title>Be prepared for wild moments</title>
<description><![CDATA[    It pays to be prepared. Thats why I always try to keep a pair of binoculars in the car. Last week, while traveling home from a visit with my daughter who lives just west of D.C., I stopped at the Sidling Hill rest area on Interstate 68. Its one of my f...]]></description>
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Sat, 30 Jul 2011 23:00:00 -0400
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<title>Corn is an a-maizing food</title>
<description><![CDATA[    For the next few weeks fresh sweet corn will be available at roadside stands, farmers markets and even grocery stores. When the corn is fresh and sweet, it can set off a buying frenzy among shoppers. Everyone wants a dozen ears.  A taste for sweet corn...]]></description>
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Sat, 23 Jul 2011 23:00:00 -0400
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<title>Pet cats shouldnt roam outdoors</title>
<description><![CDATA[                Since 1989 I have written about domestic cats and the havoc they wreak on native wildlife populations several times. Earlier this week, cats made the national &quot;fake&quot; news on Jon Stewarts &quot;The Daily Show.&quot;  The scientific...]]></description>
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Thu, 14 Jul 2011 18:44:14 -0400
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<title>House wrens can be nasty neighbors</title>
<description><![CDATA[      As my wife and I emerged from the woods a few evenings ago, I noticed a patch of blue on the trail ahead. In fact, I almost stepped on it.   It was a pure blue robins egg in seemingly pristine condition.   We immediately scanned the branches overhead...]]></description>
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Sat, 09 Jul 2011 23:00:00 -0400
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<description><![CDATA[    Everyone knows the ox-eye daisy (Chrysanthemum leucanthemum). The flowers bright yellow central disk is surrounded by white petals. It grows almost anywhere, brightening hayfields, rural roadsides, and even my gravel driveway. Its almost as ubiquitous ...]]></description>
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Sat, 02 Jul 2011 23:00:00 -0400
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<title>Belted kingfishers distract fisherman</title>
<description><![CDATA[    Im not an avid angler. Its probably because Im so easily distracted. Dragonflies and damselflies patrol their territories along cattail-lined shorelines. Bullfrogs bellow from the shoreline, and theres often at least one snapping turtle coming up for a...]]></description>
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Sat, 25 Jun 2011 23:00:00 -0400
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<title>Optics by the numbers</title>
<description><![CDATA[    Now that spring migration is over, many birders can be broken into two groups -- those who love their binoculars and those who dont. If you are in the latter group, here are some tips to keep in mind as you shop for new optics.  First, remember that bi...]]></description>
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Sat, 18 Jun 2011 23:00:00 -0400
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<title>Memories of whippoorwills</title>
<description><![CDATA[    &quot;Whip-poor-will. Whip-poor-will. Whip-poor-will!&quot;   The song wakes me at first light. Its why I keep the bedroom windows open. The song of the whippoorwill is my favorite alarm. I suppose I value it because I hear it so rarely. Over the last ...]]></description>
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Sat, 11 Jun 2011 23:00:00 -0400
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<title>Butterflies, birds and crickets make interesting summer reading</title>
<description><![CDATA[    A good book can make or break a summer vacation. Whether under a beach umbrella or in a comfortable easy chair, any curious naturalist will enjoy these recent titles.   <li><strong>&quot;Winged Obsession: The Pursuit of the Worlds Most Notorious Butter...]]></description>
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Sat, 04 Jun 2011 13:00:00 -0400
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<title>Two birds added to life list</title>
<description><![CDATA[      Like most birders, I keep a life list. It is simply a list of the first time and place I saw any particular species. Compared to some, Im a casual lister; my U.S. list is 500-plus, but I dont know the exact number. Its not that important.  But I stil...]]></description>
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Sat, 28 May 2011 23:00:00 -0400
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<title>Tree rat rediscovered after 113-year absence</title>
<description><![CDATA[It hardly seems possible that in 2011 new species of vertebrates continue to be discovered or rediscovered. And Im not sure which is more exciting &#8212; finding a new species or rediscovering one thought to be extinct. But every year one or two reports o...]]></description>
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Sat, 21 May 2011 23:02:32 -0400
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<title>Orioles like nectar, oranges, grape jelly</title>
<description><![CDATA[        The cool, wet weather weve had this spring has probably attracted more early season hummingbirds than usual to nectar feeders. Unseasonably cool, wet weather makes a dependable food supply invaluable to hummers.  Hummingbirds, though, are just one ...]]></description>
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Sat, 14 May 2011 23:00:00 -0400
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<title>Jamaica a pleasant birding surprise</title>
<description><![CDATA[    Biologists love to see species they have never seen before. The best places to see endemic species (those that occur only in isolated geographic areas) are islands. Remote islands far from mainland areas are often most famous for their endemic species....]]></description>
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Sat, 07 May 2011 23:00:00 -0400
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<title>Spring still good time to feed</title>
<description><![CDATA[    Now that trilliums and May apples are up, theres little doubt that spring is here. Time to take the bird feeders down, right. Not necessarily. Nyjer, nectar, and mealworms are great warm weather foods for a variety of backyard birds.  I provide nyjer (...]]></description>
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Sat, 30 Apr 2011 23:00:00 -0400
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<title>Ruby-throats are back early</title>
<description><![CDATA[By the time you read this, ruby-throated hummingbirds should be visiting a nectar feeder on your back porch. Theyre back early again this year. At one of my favorite websites, <a href="http://www.hummingbirds.net" title="http://www.hummingbirds.net" target...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[ (Scott Shalaway)]]>
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Sat, 23 Apr 2011 23:00:00 -0400
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<title>Birds coexist by using different resources</title>
<description><![CDATA[    Over the next eight weeks, neotropical migratory birds will return. Some will move on; others will stay and nest locally. On a good morning, birders can count 30 or more species feeding in the treetops.  But seeing many species together, often in feedi...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[ (Scott Shalaway)]]>
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Sat, 16 Apr 2011 23:00:00 -0400
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<title>Birds provide soundtrack for Masters</title>
<description><![CDATA[    I havent played a round of golf since college, but each spring I try to catch a few hours of the televised weekend portions of the Masters golf tournament. The competition can be dramatic, but I tune in to hear bird song.  The Masters takes place at Au...]]></description>
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Sat, 09 Apr 2011 23:00:00 -0400
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<title>Must-have birding applications</title>
<description><![CDATA[    Every year as spring migration begins, I get letters from readers who ask, &quot;How can I learn bird songs.&quot;   Invariably Ive recommended various collections of bird songs on CDs such as The Peterson Field Guide to Bird Songs: Eastern and Central...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[ (Scott Shalaway)]]>
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Sat, 02 Apr 2011 23:00:00 -0400
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<title>Four popular birding magazines</title>
<description><![CDATA[    Subscribers to Birders World magazine may be surprised when the April issue of the magazine arrives. It has a new name -- BirdWatching. After more than 24 years in print as Birders World, it seems a significant change, so I asked editor Chuck Hagner wh...]]></description>
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Sat, 26 Mar 2011 23:00:00 -0400
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<title>The hole story on nesting boxes</title>
<description><![CDATA[      The first day of spring always reminds that its nest box season. Its time to build and place a few more nest boxes for my favorite birds -- the cavity-nesters. This group includes bluebirds, chickadees, titmice, house wrens, tree swallows, screech-ow...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[ (Scott Shalaway)]]>
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Sat, 19 Mar 2011 23:00:00 -0400
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<title>Robins return may be short trip</title>
<description><![CDATA[    When I was a kid, one of the things I learned on television was that, &quot;Its not nice to fool Mother Nature.&quot; Apparently, however, its OK for Mother Nature to fool me.  On March 2 and 3, blue skies, sunshine, and temperatures in the 50s put a s...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[ (Scott Shalaway)]]>
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Sat, 12 Mar 2011 23:00:00 -0500
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<title>Vernal pools becoming hot spots </title>
<description><![CDATA[    As you head to the woods seeking relief from late winter cabin fever, youre virtually certain to stumble upon vernal pools -- small bodies of water that collect in depressions in the landscape.   Melting snow and late winter rains fill these shallow de...]]></description>
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Sat, 05 Mar 2011 23:00:00 -0500
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