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	<title> &#187; Cochise County</title>
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	<description>Observing Nature in Southeast Arizona and Beyond</description>
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		<title>Starting Fresh &#8212; 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 22:16:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arlene Ripley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(click on a photo to enlarge) The new year has arrived like a lamb &#8212; beautiful spring-like weather and lots of great birds around. It hasn&#8217;t taken long for some rare birds to show up either. My New Year&#8217;s birding resolution for 2012 is to concentrate on adding new birds to my lists &#8212; no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wrapping Up 2011</title>
		<link>http://nestbox.com/blog/2011/12/30/wrapping-up-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 05:05:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arlene Ripley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(click on a photo to enlarge) It&#8217;s hard to believe 2011 has only one more day before we ring in another year so this will be my last blog post for the year (unless a flamingo shows up in my yard tomorrow!). December 2011 has proven to be quite amazing bird-wise, so let me recap [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lunar Eclipse</title>
		<link>http://nestbox.com/blog/2011/12/10/lunar-eclipse-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 21:55:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arlene Ripley</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cochise County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dragoon Mountain Foothills]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you catch the lunar eclipse this morning? Here in Arizona we got to see part of it before sunrise. It will be two more years before the next set of lunar eclipses occur. Lunar Eclipse 12/10/11 6:33 am]]></description>
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		<title>Rarities Continued&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://nestbox.com/blog/2011/12/04/rarities-continued/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 04:21:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arlene Ripley</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chestnut-sided Warbler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dendroica pensylvanica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gavia pacifica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Larus canus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mew Gull]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pacific Loon]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(click on a photo to enlarge) If you&#8217;ve been wondering why I&#8217;ve not been blogging much lately, you can thank the &#8220;rarities.&#8221; I&#8217;ve been so busy tracking down some  of the numerous rare birds in Arizona this fall that I&#8217;ve been too exhausted to put a post together. Finally, I&#8217;m ready. After a long drive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Unexpected Migrant</title>
		<link>http://nestbox.com/blog/2011/09/25/an-unexpected-migrant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 04:12:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arlene Ripley</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gray Vireo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Virio vicinior]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(click on a photo to enlarge) Migration-wise, September is an exciting month. This one has been no exception. Rather than birding elsewhere, I prefer to stay home and watch the feeders or walk around our lot looking for the &#8220;first of season&#8221; migrants which arrive for the winter or pass through on their way south. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>September Rains</title>
		<link>http://nestbox.com/blog/2011/09/21/september-rains/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 05:18:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arlene Ripley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(click on a photo to enlarge) The monsoon season usually winds down in September but this year September felt like the beginning of the monsoon as it brought us more rain than July and August combined. Instead of our usual sunshine, we saw days like this: Rain in the Dragoons We&#8217;re not used to seeing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lizard vs. Hornworm</title>
		<link>http://nestbox.com/blog/2011/08/29/lizard-vs-hornworm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 22:53:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arlene Ripley</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aspidoscelis uniparens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Desert Grassland Whiptail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manduca sexta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tobacco Hornworm]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(click on a photo to enlarge) Anyone who has grown tomato plants soon becomes familiar with the large green caterpillars of the Sphinx Moth family that can devour a tomato plant in a matter of days. Closely related and similar in appearance, both the Tomato Hornworm (Manduca quinquemaculata) and Tobacco Hornworm (Manduca sexta) delight in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Rare Butterfly in the Yard</title>
		<link>http://nestbox.com/blog/2011/08/12/rare-butterfly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 23:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arlene Ripley</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cochise County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dragoon Mountain Foothills]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ascia monuste]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Southern White]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(click on a photo to enlarge) Thanks to a poor monsoon here in the Dragoon Mountains, there are few wildflowers blooming except for the plants we grow in our yard. To keep them going we water with stored rainwater or graywater. We try to plant only native plants but I can&#8217;t give up Lantanas because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Return of the Sulphur-bellieds</title>
		<link>http://nestbox.com/blog/2011/07/30/return-of-the-sulphur-bellieds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 03:39:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arlene Ripley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(click on a photo to enlarge) Two years ago, in June of 2009, I happily discovered a nesting pair of Sulphur-bellied Flycatchers in a sycamore wash here in the Dragoons. The wash was dry that year but the birds must have liked what they found here. Last year, when the wash was flowing almost all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>June on Fire</title>
		<link>http://nestbox.com/blog/2011/07/01/june-on-fire/</link>
		<comments>http://nestbox.com/blog/2011/07/01/june-on-fire/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 21:37:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arlene Ripley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(click on a photo to enlarge) On June 9, all sections of the Coronado National Forest were closed to public access. This was either because the forest was on fire or as a precautionary measure. Two fires were raging in south/south central Arizona. The Willow Fire in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest (Mogollon Rim) turned out [...]]]></description>
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