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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A fellow nature lover recently told me of seeing a black squirrel repeatedly in the northern end of Central Park. The squirrel usually seen in NYC parks is the Eastern gray squirrel, Sciurus carolinensus. Eastern grays love hardwood forests that provide them with acorns, berries, bark, insects and tree buds. In the old days, before [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=outwalkingthedog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10176542&amp;post=4393&amp;subd=outwalkingthedog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Snow poured down on the city early yesterday morning. Huge white flakes quieted the traffic and veiled the water towers from view. In Riverside Park, sledders of all sizes gathered at the 108th Street slope. Looking north, the retaining wall took on a ghostly appearance. When we started our walk, snow was still coming down [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=outwalkingthedog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10176542&amp;post=4378&amp;subd=outwalkingthedog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ibsen and Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to reincarnation, I&#8217;m a died-in-the-wool skeptic. And yet. Take a look at Henrik Ibsen, the great 19th-century Norwegian playwright. Now take a look at my dog, a 21st century American mutt. You have to admit the resemblance  is striking. No signs yet of canine literary prowess or theatrical ambitions.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=outwalkingthedog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10176542&amp;post=2638&amp;subd=outwalkingthedog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Waiting Dogs of NYC</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:42:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.                            – Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest (Act Three) The modern dog spends a significant portion of his or her life waiting. Much of a dog&#8217;s waiting time happens away from human eyes, alone in houses or apartments, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=outwalkingthedog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10176542&amp;post=4327&amp;subd=outwalkingthedog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pigeons and Starlings in Flight</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watching a flock of city pigeons in flight can be mesmerizing. Here is my first attempt to capture a flock in flight, wheeling and circling over 110th Street and Broadway.  Is it my imagination or does the flock grow, attracting other birds to fly with it as if by centrifugal force? Look closely at around [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=outwalkingthedog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10176542&amp;post=4321&amp;subd=outwalkingthedog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sweet Dreams, 2011. Nice to Meet You, 2012.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 22:25:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Say goodnight, 2011. It&#8217;s been swell. But it&#8217;s time for you to go. Sweet dreams. And oh, good morning, 2012! Thank you, dear readers, for a wonderful year. Here&#8217;s to the future. HAPPY NEW YEAR!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=outwalkingthedog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10176542&amp;post=4302&amp;subd=outwalkingthedog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 14:56:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday we began our coverage of Out Walking the Dog&#8217;s Top Ten Stories of 2011 with Numbers Ten to Six. The stories explored urban coyotes and whales as well as a secret garden in the middle of New York City and two peculiar NYC plants, one of which is connected to an on-going ancient British [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=outwalkingthedog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10176542&amp;post=4285&amp;subd=outwalkingthedog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Most Popular Urban Nature Stories of 2011: Numbers 10 &#8211; 6</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:39:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today and tomorrow, we&#8217;re celebrating another year of watching New York City&#8217;s urban wildlife by looking back at Out Walking the Dog&#8217;s Top Stories of 2011.  The articles include mastodons, chihuahua-carrying hawks, whales, coyotes, rodents, burdock, peacocks and the secret garden of St. John the Divine. Today I&#8217;ll count down from Number Ten through Number [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=outwalkingthedog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10176542&amp;post=4267&amp;subd=outwalkingthedog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Christmas Plea from Dr. Astrov (1897)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 18:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Out Walking the Dog wishes all readers a very merry Christmas, Chanukkah, Kwanza, Solstice and every other possible reason for celebrating Light-out-of-Darkness. We&#8217;re still posting from the coast of British Columbia, and will be returning to the wilds of New York City next week. Wherever we travel, we are deeply grateful for your interest in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=outwalkingthedog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10176542&amp;post=4249&amp;subd=outwalkingthedog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 20:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The mountains beckoned over Trout Lake in East Vancouver. Frost was on the ground. Waterfowl swam about near the small beach, including mallards and American coots. Coots are special favorites of mine for their charmingly ungainly physiques. Since I&#8217;ve seen the little balloon-bodied, white-faced birds on Trout Lake in summer months as well, I assume [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=outwalkingthedog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10176542&amp;post=4223&amp;subd=outwalkingthedog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:44:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We landed in Vancouver, British Columbia in the wee hours of Wednesday morning. After sleeping a few hours, I took a quiet morning walk around Trout Lake in East Vancouver&#8217;s John Hendry Park. The mountains were out. On the little beach, American coots and a variety of ducks swam and foraged (more on them soon). [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=outwalkingthedog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10176542&amp;post=4200&amp;subd=outwalkingthedog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Co-existing with Urban Coyotes – even in NYC</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 21:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coyote Sightings in Queens: Is the Situation Dangerous? Residents of Jamaica, Queens have reported sightings of coyotes near the Locust Manor LIRR station. According to the usual media hype, they are being &#8220;terrorized&#8221; by dangerous predators. It&#8217;s impossible to tell from the reporting whether there is one coyote, spotted many times, or several. It&#8217;s also [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=outwalkingthedog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10176542&amp;post=4170&amp;subd=outwalkingthedog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Queens Coyotes Expand NYC Range</title>
		<link>http://outwalkingthedog.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/queens-coyotes-expand-nyc-range/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 02:34:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Out Walking the Dog</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coyotes have taken up residence in another New York City borough.  They&#8217;ve long been living in the wilds of the Bronx.  Now continued coyote sightings and encounters confirm that at least one animal, and possibly several, are living near the Locust Manor Long Island Railroad station in Jamaica, Queens. The local media is playing up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=outwalkingthedog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10176542&amp;post=4159&amp;subd=outwalkingthedog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Everything changes: Two Days at the Beach</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Out Walking the Dog</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two November days on a familiar beach served to remind me that everything changes, and a beach, perhaps, most of all. Day One Tiny animal holes dot the wet sand. The surface of the beach is pretty empty, except for a few remnants of life. Like this brilliant piece of seaweed. Or this lovely mussel [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=outwalkingthedog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10176542&amp;post=4134&amp;subd=outwalkingthedog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hawk of the Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 13:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Out Walking the Dog</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I&#8217;ve said before, bare branches make for fine hawk watching. From late summer through early fall, I wondered where Riverside Park&#8217;s red-tails were hanging out. A Parks employee told me to try the playground near Grant&#8217;s Tomb, but I found no raptors other than the bird on top of this little structure near the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=outwalkingthedog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10176542&amp;post=4118&amp;subd=outwalkingthedog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NYC Raven: The Scold of Broadway</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Out Walking the Dog</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A belligerent raven, sculpted by Peter Woytuk, hangs out near the entrance to the subway station on Broadway and 72nd Street. The big bronze bird appears to have taken on the character of a neighborhood scold. &#8220;Ever hear of personal space, pal? Back off, or I bite.&#8221; An equal opportunity scold, the raven&#8217;s most common [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=outwalkingthedog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10176542&amp;post=4101&amp;subd=outwalkingthedog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sweetgum Seed Balls: Eyeballs and Ankle Biters</title>
		<link>http://outwalkingthedog.wordpress.com/2011/12/07/sweetgum-seed-balls-eyeballs-and-ankle-biters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Riverside Park&#8217;s Sweetgum trees have lost their lovely leaves. The bare branches are hung with seed balls that look like Christmas tree decorations. If you like your tree decorated in drab brown, that is. The little balls seem to be empty houses, the light, winged seeds having flown out through the tiny windows to colonize [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=outwalkingthedog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10176542&amp;post=4089&amp;subd=outwalkingthedog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Swans on Long Island</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Out Walking the Dog</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Mecox Bay, on the eastern shore of Long Island, some swans are year-round residents.  In early September, this family, consisting of an adult pair and two cygnets, swam the bay together, and dipped for seaweed and small creatures Large flocks of adult swans had gathered on the bay. By the end of November, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=outwalkingthedog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10176542&amp;post=4066&amp;subd=outwalkingthedog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New York Rats and Garbage</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a terrific little video by Assignment Earth on New York rats. It features State Senator Bill Perkins, Rodent Expert Stephen Frantz, and a lively cast of street rats. Frantz clearly and knowledgeably makes the point that NYC&#8217;s rat problem is caused by humans and can be solved by humans. The message is simple: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=outwalkingthedog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10176542&amp;post=3698&amp;subd=outwalkingthedog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Water Tower Drama: Hawk versus Crow</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 23:13:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am trying to work, when the cawing of crows catches my attention. Grateful for the distraction, I rush happily to the window. A crow perches on a water tower. Nice, but why the loud caws?  Aha! Just a little further east, a red-tailed hawk is perched on another water tower. I grab the camera, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=outwalkingthedog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10176542&amp;post=3989&amp;subd=outwalkingthedog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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