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      <title>BirdBlog</title>
      <link>http://birdblog.merseyblogs.co.uk/</link>
      <description>John Dempsey has been a properish birder for more than 30 years and compiled the Daily Post "Country Matters" column. Birdblog looks at birding in Merseyside, Lancs and beyond!</description>
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      <copyright>Copyright 2009</copyright>
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         <title>Rich completes his oakwoods trilogy</title>
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         <title>Makes a change from Canadas</title>
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         <title>Red Veined Darters</title>
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         <title>Bad days at Blog rock</title>
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         <title>The slow, screaming hours of a heatwave</title>
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         <title>Pond daddy</title>
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         <title>Reality bites.</title>
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         <title>Pink toads and the Sands of Time</title>
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         <title>I'll sleep when I'm dead: Birding Finland/Norway 10.06.09 - 18.06.09</title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:55:40 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title>Okay, okay, we've been away</title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title>More "Wild Merseyside"...</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><img alt="coverwm.jpg" src="http://birdblog.merseyblogs.co.uk/coverwm.jpg" width="260" height="367" class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;" /></span> As usual, many thanks to all you splendid people out there who are buying my book, "<a href="http://www.merseyshop.com/products/productdetail.php?category_id=94&product_id=1307&variation_id=2864&search_term">Wild Merseyside"</a>. 
I've spent the last few days dropping off copies at various places where you all go birding - so if you don't have a copy yet, at a paltry £4.99 you too could enjoy my ramblings and dicey photography (thank God for Steve Young, Rich Steel and Andy Bate).
Fresh batch of copies now at <a href="http://www.rspb.org.uk/reserves/guide/m/marshside/index.asp">Marshside RSPB</a> and the <a href="http://www.at-infocus.co.uk/martinmere.html">In Focus</a> store at Martin Mere, so there's no excuse not to get a copy....
Just think of the fun you can have boring people with "Wild Merseyside" facts at your summer barbecues, or you could use the book to start seawatching - once we're past June, the birds are back in the bay again big time.]]></description>
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          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category">Buying "Wild Merseyside"</category>
        
        
         <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:57:15 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title>Redstarts by Rich Steel</title>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title>Two Little Stints</title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:50:59 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title>The difference between small and very far away...</title>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:26:33 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title>Strange Days</title>
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