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		<title>Off the Subject</title>
		<link>http://fatfinch.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/off-the-subject/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[gamma rays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[speed of light]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We’re off the subject of birds today in order to bring you this photograph:
That is a visible light rendering of the gamma-ray sky, stitching together an entire year’s worth of observations from the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope.  One measurement made with that telescope proved, yet again, that Einstein was right that the speed of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fatfinch.wordpress.com&blog=737765&post=1551&subd=fatfinch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Songbird Creation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:22:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Navajo Creation Story]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Zolbrod]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shiprock]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Modern science tells us that birds evolved from dinosaurs.  Other stories are told too, such as this one from the Navajo creation story which tells about the creation of the smaller birds.

It is said that Monster Slayer went to his mother Changing Woman to ask where he would find the Bird Monsters. (Tsé Ninájálééh) At [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fatfinch.wordpress.com&blog=737765&post=1538&subd=fatfinch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Night Crane</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:36:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A cold front passed through three days ago, leaving us with three crystal-clear autumnal moonlit nights which, if you were warmly dressed, were well-suited to sitting out in the back yard, listening to the trumpets of evolution. The Sandhill Cranes are migrating and this year many have chosen the night flight, probably because the winds [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fatfinch.wordpress.com&blog=737765&post=1531&subd=fatfinch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Navajo Condor</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:21:47 +0000</pubDate>
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Long time readers of this blog are used to its author whining about not seeing a California Condor after several attempts at the Grand Canyon.  Another attempt, this time at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, failed last week.
But there will be no more whining about not seeing a condor.
After a trip through parts [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fatfinch.wordpress.com&blog=737765&post=1521&subd=fatfinch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Early Morning</title>
		<link>http://fatfinch.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/early-morning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Birding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blue Grouse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grand Canyon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grouse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[House Made of Dawn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hunting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There were four of them and they came at dawn.  The sun had just crested the rim far to the east and our coffee was gone. The male was domineering; discontented with his women who were dithering along behind him, vaguely flirting with two males of an alien species.  The night had been clear and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fatfinch.wordpress.com&blog=737765&post=1516&subd=fatfinch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>God Introduces New Bird</title>
		<link>http://fatfinch.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/god-introduces-new-bird/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Onion]]></category>

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The Onion, in case you haven&#8217;t stumbled across it, is a fake, humorous newspaper where you can read all sorts of imaginative stuff.  With that warning, we refer you to a recent faux article announcing that God has created a new bird.  The bird doesn&#8217;t have a name yet because,  &#8220;In keeping with tradition, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fatfinch.wordpress.com&blog=737765&post=1508&subd=fatfinch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Just a Thought</title>
		<link>http://fatfinch.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/just-a-thought/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:09:34 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Ruminations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dolphins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intelligence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a thought from Douglas Adams, the writer and dramatist who died in 2001.  I was thinking of this watching the Grand Canyon Ravens last week.  By exchanging &#8220;fly around&#8221; for &#8220;swim in the water&#8221; and &#8220;eat anything&#8221; for &#8221; eat fish&#8221;, you get exactly the same thought about animal intelligence.
Humans think they are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fatfinch.wordpress.com&blog=737765&post=1502&subd=fatfinch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sleeps with Elk</title>
		<link>http://fatfinch.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/sleeps-with-elk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Ecology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ancestral Puebloans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California Condors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grand Canyon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pinyon Jay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ravens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wapiti]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some of the Grand Canyon’s California Condors often congregate for the night on the cliffs below the South Rim’s Bright Angel Lodge, but not on the one day we could be there to witness.  That’s the trouble with Nature: She doesn’t reliably bend her schedule to fit the desires of her human species, so we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fatfinch.wordpress.com&blog=737765&post=1486&subd=fatfinch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Birds and Proper Coffee</title>
		<link>http://fatfinch.wordpress.com/2009/10/07/birds-and-proper-coffee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A great unsolved mystery of the natural world is how so many species of life on our planet survive without coffee.  Birds and other animals appear to go straight from deep sleep into instant wakefulness without the slightest need for two cups of coffee. While that seems impossible, we must not flinch in the face [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fatfinch.wordpress.com&blog=737765&post=1482&subd=fatfinch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Fat Finch Goes Birding</title>
		<link>http://fatfinch.wordpress.com/2009/10/02/the-fat-finch-goes-birding/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:58:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The staff and management of the Fat Finch are leading bird walks this weekend.  Here they are out scouting.

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