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	<description>Observing Nature in Southeast Arizona and Beyond</description>
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		<title>Exploring Baja Sur (Mexico) &#8212; part 2</title>
		<link>http://nestbox.com/blog/2010/03/09/exploring-baja-sur2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arlene Ripley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[La Paz Cactus Sanctuary]]></category>

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Even in a semi-tropical place like  Baja you can&#8217;t depend on the weather. Our second full day was supposed to be a trip to La Paz where we would boat out to one of the islands in the Sea of Cortez where there is a large sea lion colony and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exploring Baja Sur (Mexico) &#8212; day 1</title>
		<link>http://nestbox.com/blog/2010/03/06/exploring-baja-sur_1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 05:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arlene Ripley</dc:creator>
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Living so close to Mexico and never having visited there (a shopping trip to Nogales doesn&#8217;t count!), we decided to take a week to explore the southern end of Baja California (Baja Sur). We&#8217;ve always been fascinated with Baja, especially after reading John Steinbeck&#8217;s The Log from the Sea of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Waning Days of Winter</title>
		<link>http://nestbox.com/blog/2010/02/19/waning-days-of-winter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 03:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arlene Ripley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cochise County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Curve-billed Thrasher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gila Woodpecker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Western Scrub-Jay]]></category>

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In the past week, I&#8217;ve noticed signs of spring. The cottonwoods in Tucson are leafing out, some of the flowers already spent. In St. David, about a thousand feet higher than Tucson, buds are swelling and almost ready to burst. Here in the Dragoon Mountain foothills, another thousand feet higher [...]]]></description>
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		<title>B&amp;B Birding</title>
		<link>http://nestbox.com/blog/2010/02/11/bb-birding/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:56:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arlene Ripley</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Golden-crowned Sparrow]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pine Siskin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spotted Towhee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yellow-rumped Warbler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zonotrichia atricapilla]]></category>

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B&#38;Bs that cater to birders are very popular here in SE Arizona. Fortunately you don&#8217;t have to be a guest to visit some of them, and those that only cater to guests often open their doors to birders when rarities show up. So all it took was a phone call [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The White Flycatcher</title>
		<link>http://nestbox.com/blog/2010/01/29/white-flycatcher/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 04:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arlene Ripley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Common Moorhen. Pied-billed Grebe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leucistic Vermilion Flycatcher]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Yellow Warbler]]></category>

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Over a week ago now (I&#8217;ve been doing domestic stuff like painting walls and got behind with blogging), I visited Sweetwater Wetlands Park in west central Tucson. It&#8217;s a convenient stop, just off of I-10 a bit northwest of the Prince Rd. exit. I hadn&#8217;t been to Sweetwater in months [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Bluebird Winter</title>
		<link>http://nestbox.com/blog/2010/01/16/bluebird-winter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 22:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arlene Ripley</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cochise County]]></category>
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This has turned into the winter of the bluebird. Even lowland areas such as downtown Tucson are reporting flocks of Western Bluebirds. If I drive to the old water tanks along the Forest Road in the nearby Coronado National Forest, I never fail to find many Western Bluebirds at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rose-throated Becard</title>
		<link>http://nestbox.com/blog/2010/01/07/rose-throated-becard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 03:53:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arlene Ripley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, seven days into the new year, we finally took the time to drive to Tumacacori in Santa Cruz County to the now famous Santa Gertrudis Lane to look for the Rose-throated Becard and other rarities that have been reported there over the last few weeks. We didn&#8217;t get off to an auspicious start &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Year&#8217;s Day 2010</title>
		<link>http://nestbox.com/blog/2010/01/03/new-years-day-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 04:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arlene Ripley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A beautiful start to 2010&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.a day at Whitewater Draw Wildlife Area in the Sulphur Springs Valley of Cochise County watching thousands of Sandhill Cranes. Happy New Year everyone!

(click on photo to enlarge)


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		<title>Happy Holidays</title>
		<link>http://nestbox.com/blog/2009/12/25/happy-holidays/</link>
		<comments>http://nestbox.com/blog/2009/12/25/happy-holidays/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 18:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arlene Ripley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks and Best Wishes to all who have visited the &#8220;Curious Naturalist&#8221; over the past year. I have enjoyed and appreciated your comments and I look forward to sharing more observations and adventures in 2010.


The male Pyrrhuloxia is decked out in his holiday finest!






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		<title>The Hole in the Tree</title>
		<link>http://nestbox.com/blog/2009/12/19/hole-in-the-tree/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:18:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arlene Ripley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Buteo jamaicensis fuertesi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ladder-backed Woodpecker]]></category>

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On Wednesday (12/16) I was scouting some areas in the national forest looking for good birding spots for the December 18  St. David Audubon Christmas Bird Count. As I expected, bird numbers and diversity were quite low thanks to a &#8220;non-monsoon&#8221; year.
As I sat in the parking area of my [...]]]></description>
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