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		<title>A different kind of snowy white with many insects</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Buckbrush Ceanothus (Ceanothus cuneatus) has started blooming with bright white flowers at lower elevations in the San Rafael Mountains, and should probably peak in the next couple weeks. Insects, especially buzzing honeybees, are harvesting the nectar and pollen from the snowy blossoms. 
Another very popular nectar source are the whitish urn-shaped flowers of manzanita. Some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://natureshutterbug.com/wordpress/2010/02/17/a-different-kind-of-snowy-white-with-many-insects/</link>
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		<title>Books &amp; Video</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In some of my photos of the male catkins of the Alder tree (last post and slideshow) , there are a few smaller appendages above the long pendant male catkins. I wondered if they were new male catkins or new female catkins. (Note &#8211; clicking on bold text in post opens a referenced link.)

Thanks to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://natureshutterbug.com/wordpress/2010/01/29/books-video/</link>
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		<title>Alder and Owl</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On a whim, and only after the sky seemed to be clearing, I set out on Saturday (January 16th), the last day before a two-week rain stretch. The exploration was along Happy Canyon Road and then Sunset Valley Road. While looking for plants, I eyed the many bare roadcuts and thought of the projected rain [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://natureshutterbug.com/wordpress/2010/01/19/alder-and-owl/</link>
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		<title>A plant with wintery, woollen attire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Silktassel, a dioecious shrub has two  kinds  of plant &#8211; male and female, each with its own kind of catkin &#8211; i.e this species has two &#8220;homes&#8221;, where di=two and oeci=home, creating the term dioecious.
The catkins start growing in late summer and consist of tightly packed fluffy bracts. During winter, the male staminate catkins elongate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://natureshutterbug.com/wordpress/2010/01/12/a-plant-with-wintery-woollen-attire/</link>
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		<title>Overload protection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had hoped to make a few more photo excursions over the holiday season, but that never happened because my internal overload protection device automatically tripped. Instead, I spent time chilling out, or more accurately, toasting up with a few good books.

I finished off &#8220;Desert Journal&#8221; By Raymond B. Cowles, an interesting book of Southern [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://natureshutterbug.com/wordpress/2010/01/07/overload-protection/</link>
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		<title>First week after Winter Solstice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On December 21st, the shortening of the day length reached a minimum at Winter Solstice. Until June 21, 2010, sunshine hours will increase daily. During this last week since the Winter Solstice, while visiting along Alisal Road to Figueroa Mountain Road, green shoots and young plants were seen in abundance, even as many &#8220;fall&#8221; trees [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://natureshutterbug.com/wordpress/2009/12/27/first-week-after-winter-solstice/</link>
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		<title>Old leaves, new leaves</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I made it out to Happy Canyon and Sunset Valley Roads on Sunday to photograph fall color along the creeks by the sides of those roads. There were some wonderful displays here and there, and I may have erred in some of the images with respect to identifying Sycamore and Big-leaf Maple leaves where it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://natureshutterbug.com/wordpress/2009/12/10/old-leaves-new-leaves/</link>
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		<title>Goleta Birds, November 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Because of a need for exercise and sun, I had considered shooting in the back country today. However, after yesterday&#8217;s sighting of the Sandhill Crane, I decided to photograph Goleta birds instead. Unfortunately, the Sandhill Crane was not at Devereux Slough this morning.
I then went to Lake Los Carneros, where I was fortunate to see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://natureshutterbug.com/wordpress/2009/11/02/goleta-birds-november-1/</link>
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		<title>Fall Color 2009 Trip</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In southern California, many of the local native plants follow different activities in the four seasons. A few of them, generally in moister areas, provide displays of fall color. On Saturday, I was part of a SBBG field trip to find fall color in the back country along Highway33,  Lockwood Valley Road (a land of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://natureshutterbug.com/wordpress/2009/10/28/fall-color-2009-trip/</link>
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		<title>Ternphony</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Terns over Devereux slough; terns at Sands; terns were quite a presence at Coal Oil Point Reserve yesterday. Despite low water levels at Devereux, until the rain of a week or so ago, fish must not be scarce.
One could hardly fail to notice the energetic wings beating in characteristic tern rhythm in the sky, swooping [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://natureshutterbug.com/wordpress/2009/10/19/ternphony/</link>
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		<title>INTERNATIONAL DAY OF CLIMATE ACTION</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have not had the time to go out and take pictures that are worthy of a post &#8211; just a few here and there. Additionally,  from July to about now, it is very dry and hot under the rainless summer skies, so fire is always of concern. Fires have increased dramatically in the last [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://natureshutterbug.com/wordpress/2009/10/04/international-day-of-climate-action/</link>
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		<title>Madiba ‘humbled’ by Mandela Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nelson Mandela will turn 91 on Saturday, a day that will be commemorated world wide as the first internationally recognised &#8216;Mandela Day&#8217;. Madiba will celebrate his birthday in Johannesburg but parties honouring him have been organised across the globe.
The main Mandela Day festivities will take place in New York City, where international stars and dignitaries [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://natureshutterbug.com/wordpress/2009/07/18/madiba-%e2%80%98humbled%e2%80%99-by-mandela-day/</link>
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		<title>More Mesa &#8211; Kites, Hawk, Owl, Youngsters, Toxic Weed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, Valerie told me that she had seen five white-tailed kites on the eastern end of More Mesa perched in the same tree close to the main trail. I went out a  few days later one Sunday evening, and was able to photograph a youngster, whose rusty feathers had almost faded to white and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://natureshutterbug.com/wordpress/2009/06/12/more-mesa-kites-hawk-owl-youngsters-toxic-weed/</link>
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		<title>CCBER Flourishing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been fortunate to attend, when possible, CCBER Monday evening one-hour seminars on subjects in which I have much interest but little knowledge &#8211; a good background to the nature photography I enjoy. I was also fortunate to see the formation of CCBER and their moving into new quarters, and seeing them grow and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://natureshutterbug.com/wordpress/2009/06/12/ccber-flourishing/</link>
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		<title>Harvest or Earth Brodiaea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A chain of events, starting this year with my providing a map to Lara Hartley, resulted in the travel by Wayne Armstrong, brodiaea researcher (amongst other things), to Figueroa Mountain to investigate the brodiaea at the location in question. 
Because Wayne constructed an extremely interesting page of his visit, I decided to create this post [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://natureshutterbug.com/wordpress/2009/06/04/harvest-or-earth-brodiaea/</link>
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