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	<subtitle type="text">chronicles and musings of an urban field ecologist</subtitle>

	<updated>2025-11-23T18:12:31Z</updated>

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			<name>Nuthatch</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[a belated goodbye]]></title>
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		<id>https://bootstrap-analysis.com/?p=1316</id>
		<updated>2025-11-17T16:41:39Z</updated>
		<published>2024-01-11T12:58:26Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://bootstrap-analysis.com" term="Cat blogging" /><category scheme="https://bootstrap-analysis.com" term="best of" /><category scheme="https://bootstrap-analysis.com" term="best ofJ" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Juniper Grace Born March 2007. Adopted from the Dearborn Animal Shelter in December 2008 by Julie and Darrin. Loved so very, very much for 14 years. Released from her suffering on January 11, 2023 after a short but rapid decline from pancreatic cancer. Juniper came to us after the loss of our cat Kady as [&#8230;]]]></summary>

		
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			<name>Nuthatch</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[my year in birds: 2022]]></title>
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		<id>https://bootstrap-analysis.com/?p=1285</id>
		<updated>2025-11-16T20:51:13Z</updated>
		<published>2023-01-04T13:24:54Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://bootstrap-analysis.com" term="Flotsam and jetsam" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Not much happening worthwhile in 2022. Total life birds: 1115. An armchair tick with taxonomic changes. Total ABA-area birds: 589. Ditto. Total state birds: 333. No change. Plenty of opportunity, though. Michigan hosted two Limpkins, a Variegated Flycatcher, a Southern Lapwing&#8230; but even chasing birds was just not really feasible for us this year. Home [&#8230;]]]></summary>

		
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		<author>
			<name>Nuthatch</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[the pets of popes]]></title>
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		<id>https://bootstrap-analysis.com/?p=1159</id>
		<updated>2025-11-19T16:14:53Z</updated>
		<published>2022-01-25T15:45:39Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://bootstrap-analysis.com" term="Birds" /><category scheme="https://bootstrap-analysis.com" term="best of" /><category scheme="https://bootstrap-analysis.com" term="best ofJ" /><category scheme="https://bootstrap-analysis.com" term="best ofV" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[A recent opinion piece by Frank Bruni in the New York Times pointed out the absurdity of the Pope&#8217;s recent castigation of childless pet owners: we are selfish and our lack of procreation diminishes our humanity. Whoa. I am years past any outrage at the Catholic church, especially on the topic of reproduction. However, something [&#8230;]]]></summary>

		
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		<author>
			<name>Nuthatch</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[my year in birds: 2021]]></title>
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		<id>https://bootstrap-analysis.com/?p=1029</id>
		<updated>2025-11-16T20:50:53Z</updated>
		<published>2022-01-01T19:44:41Z</published>
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		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Well, here we are, it was 2020 all over again due to the covid-19 pandemic &#8212; at least for us. We did not travel, but we did a little birding close to home. Total life birds: 1114. Two armchair ticks with taxonomic changes. There were actually a few losses but more gains, although I confess [&#8230;]]]></summary>

		
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		<author>
			<name>Nuthatch</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[I&#8217;m turning into John Boenher!]]></title>
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		<id>http://bootstrap-analysis.com/?p=643</id>
		<updated>2025-11-16T20:54:50Z</updated>
		<published>2021-04-29T15:38:57Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://bootstrap-analysis.com" term="Flotsam and jetsam" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Media was bringing this up all week. Still cried when I saw it!]]></summary>

		
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		<author>
			<name>Nuthatch</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[my year in birds: 2020]]></title>
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		<id>http://bootstrap-analysis.com/?p=633</id>
		<updated>2025-11-16T20:51:04Z</updated>
		<published>2021-01-05T16:40:24Z</published>
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		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Well, here we are, mired in the stay-at-home covid-19 pandemic. I know a lot of people did a lot of local birding in 2020, for lack of travel and other safe activities. I was home, but pre-occupied with other stuff. Total life birds: 1112. Nothing new, although I think the recent split of Mexican Duck [&#8230;]]]></summary>

		
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		<author>
			<name>Nuthatch</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[my year in birds: 2019]]></title>
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		<id>http://bootstrap-analysis.com/?p=623</id>
		<updated>2025-11-16T20:51:26Z</updated>
		<published>2020-01-03T15:41:18Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://bootstrap-analysis.com" term="Flotsam and jetsam" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Well, I did do a little traveling in 2019: to Wisconsin for my sister-in-law&#8217;s birthday, and to Montana for spouse&#8217;s old friends reunion. I&#8217;d been to both states before, so no lifers on these trips. My life bird this year was Whooping Crane, in my home county. Total life birds: 1112 Total ABA-area birds: 587. [&#8230;]]]></summary>

		
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		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Nuthatch</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[my year in birds: 2018]]></title>
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		<id>http://bootstrap-analysis.com/?p=607</id>
		<updated>2025-11-16T20:51:33Z</updated>
		<published>2018-12-31T13:40:19Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://bootstrap-analysis.com" term="Flotsam and jetsam" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[&#8220;Birding&#8221; in the sense of really spending time in the field looking for birds has largely fallen by the wayside. My work over the past few years expanded into broader ecological endeavors, heavy on botany and entomology. But in keeping with tradition, here is my catch up post. Some new life birds since the last [&#8230;]]]></summary>

		
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		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Nuthatch</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[10 years with &#8220;the bug&#8221;!]]></title>
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		<id>http://bootstrap-analysis.com/?p=609</id>
		<updated>2025-11-23T18:12:31Z</updated>
		<published>2018-12-23T13:43:29Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://bootstrap-analysis.com" term="Cat blogging" /><category scheme="https://bootstrap-analysis.com" term="best of 2" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Juniper (a.k.a. Juni, June Bug, The Bug, My Beautiful Girl) has been with us for ten years now. At nearly 12 years old, she is still as goofy, sweet, and playful as ever. We lost our beloved Sophie in 2013 and it was devastating for all of us, including Juniper. She was clearly depressed for [&#8230;]]]></summary>

		
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		<author>
			<name>Nuthatch</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[still with me?]]></title>
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		<id>http://bootstrap-analysis.com/?p=608</id>
		<updated>2025-11-16T20:55:33Z</updated>
		<published>2018-12-19T13:06:11Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://bootstrap-analysis.com" term="Flotsam and jetsam" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Did you think I had just given up, abandoning bootstrap to the graveyard of dead blogs? The last few years have been a crush of winding down my university job, taking an offered premature retirement, and transitioning to more freelance work and more free time (in theory, at least). Although I have kept several of [&#8230;]]]></summary>

		
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