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	<description>Jim Braswell is a professional nature and wildlife photographer based in Missouri, working under the name Show Me Nature Photography.</description>
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		<title>Fun Friday: &#8220;Totally Organic Pesticide&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 12:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s &#8220;Fun Friday&#8221; post images were made during a recent 3-day, private photo workshop I held with friend and nature lover, Adam Jack (@wildobs for you Twitter friends). While kayaking in one of my favorite locations, we were shooting active warblers as they searched for insects along the creek. This Prothonotary Warbler (Protonotaria citrea) was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meep, Meep!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 11:49:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although the fabled roadrunner of cartoon fame sounded something like this, I never heard a peep out of the Greater Roadrunners (Geococcyx californianus) I saw. They were always quiet, but the cartoon had the speed correct! Several times, a roadrunner would ramble in to the water hole to get a drink and to look for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Golden Bird</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 09:19:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another &#8220;life&#8221; bird I photographed in the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas was the Golden-fronted Woodpecker (Melanerpes aurifrons), a Texas specialty (although a few can be found in southwest Oklahoma). When we started out the morning, we put some bird food around the water hole, hoping to attract such birds &#8230; seems like it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Makeup On and Nowhere to Go!</title>
		<link>http://blog.showmenaturephotography.com/9418/blog/makeup-on-and-nowhere-to-go/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 09:22:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During my recent south Texas bird photography trip in the Rio Grande Valley area, I was fortunate to see/photograph quite a few Painted Buntings (Passerina ciris). This was not a life bird for me (I saw one several years ago on the Wichita Mountains NWR, in Oklahoma), but one that I don&#8217;t think I would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Chick Time Again!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 09:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Late last week, I visited the nearby Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias). You might remember some of my posts from the rookery last year. Since then, I&#8217;ve talked to the landowner and received permission to trim a few limbs out of the trees there, to gain a better view of the nests. So, over the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fun Friday: &#8220;Here&#8217;s Looking At You, Kid&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 11:43:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s Fun Friday post comes from yesterday&#8217;s kayaking adventure: &#160; &#160; &#160; This American Beaver (Castor canadensis) suddenly appeared, only about 10 feet away from the kayak as I sat near the beaver lodge, waiting for one of the residents to come by. This image is uncropped and was at the minimum focus distance for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A &#8220;Lifer&#8221; from the Kayak</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 09:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I still have a lot of south Texas birds to feature, but today&#8217;s post is another local &#8220;lifer&#8221; for me. I have kayaked the past two mornings and yesterday I found two &#8220;life&#8221; birds (one still being identified). The one I managed to identify is a Wilson&#8217;s Warbler (Wilsonia pusilla), which, according to 2 reference [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Mess With Texas!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 09:54:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the common anti-littering slogans of Texas &#8230; also, a slogan that would be quite appropriate for this little guy, the Western Diamondback Rattlesnake (Crotalus atrox): &#160; The classical defensive, strike-ready position And what wonderful camouflage this reptile has: &#160; &#160; And a closeup shows some of the characteristics this venomous snake exhibits &#8230; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>South Texas &#8230; More Than Just Birds!</title>
		<link>http://blog.showmenaturephotography.com/9312/blog/south-texas-more-than-just-birds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 09:48:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Still downloading and editing my many images from the south Texas photography trip, so while I round up and edit the many bird images, I&#8217;ll share another critter that I saw quite often at the water holes of the south Texas ranch &#8230; the Mexican Ground Squirrel (Spermophilus mexicanus): &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; These [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Really Groovy Bird!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 13:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another &#8220;life&#8221; bird I was fortunate to photograph in last week&#8217;s south Texas trip was the Grooved-billed Ani (Crotophaga ani): &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; The Groove-billed Ani is a rather large bird (~13 inches long) and belong to the cuckoo family. The range for this bird is north Mexico and into south Texas, [...]]]></description>
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