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	<title>Yips and Howls &#187; Wildlife Encounters</title>
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		<title>Moving Rattlesnakes Humanely</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2010/10/moving-rattlesnakes-humanely/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We don't bother the Northern Pacific Rattlesnakes that live on the wilder parts of our property. It's easy enough to walk around them.  But when they appear near our yurt and garden, it's a little close for comfort (...)]]></description>
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		<title>Paw Prints</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2010/10/paw-prints/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 02:08:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On this day of global action for climate change, I'm once again too busy on the land -- preparing garlic beds, planting cover crops, taking stock of what we need to do to manage our ponderosa pine forests and weed-infested pastures -- to participate in group events (...)]]></description>
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		<title>Autumn Frog</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2010/09/autumn-frog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 03:05:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[don't usually see Pacific Tree Frogs this time of year, so was surprised -- and delighted -- to see this one hop across my path on the last day of summer (...)]]></description>
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		<title>Race for the Pears</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2010/08/race-for-the-pears/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 20:57:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Homesteading]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's that time of year again, when my taste buds give up on peaches and berries and begin longing for crunchy pears and apples (...)]]></description>
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		<title>Temptation in the Apple Trees</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2010/07/temptation-in-the-apple-trees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cows]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I spent an afternoon in the old apple orchard to check out the bird nesting scene. The cows found this fascinating....]]></description>
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		<title>Wren Independence Day</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2010/07/wren-independence-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 02:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The house wrens nesting on our yurt porch chose this morning, the 4th of July, to shoo their young ones out of the nest.]]></description>
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		<title>Birthday Rattlesnake</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/09/birthday-rattlesnake/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:32:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've been reviewing some photos I took this summer and found one that makes my day....]]></description>
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		<title>Townsend&#8217;s Big-Eared Bat: Species of the Week</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/09/townsends-big-eared-bat/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/09/townsends-big-eared-bat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:54:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Homesteading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Species of the Week]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On our Northeast Oregon property, we have an old house that's rotting.  It has little historic or architectural value, so we've been leaning towards tearing it down. Then my nephew, Gerek, found the bat in the closet....]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Great Horned Owl: Species of the Week</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/08/great-horned-owl-species-of-the-week-2/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/08/great-horned-owl-species-of-the-week-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:16:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Northwest]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/?p=3714</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I first heard the strange noises in late June: whistling squawks that sounded like sea gulls five hundred miles off course. The calls began at sundown every evening and continued throughout the night.  I couldn't imagine what besides an owl would make so much noise after dark.   But owls hoot.  Right?  Couldn't possibly be owls, I thought....]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Northern Pacific Rattlesnake: Species of the Week</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/08/northern-pacific-rattlesnake-species-of-the-week/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/08/northern-pacific-rattlesnake-species-of-the-week/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had originally planned to post on another species this week.  In fact, I have a backlog of species that have been inspiring and distracting me.  But rattlesnakes have a way of making themselves heard above the din of all else [...]]]></description>
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