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		<title>Purple Martins Are in Violation of the City Noise Ordinance!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 11:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thursday, August 04, 2011: It was a clear cool night with a slight breeze. Tonight, Jan Frye and Nick Flanders counted 26,300 Purple Martins flying into the Pear trees on 17th Street in Shockoe Bottom. For the record, Jan Frye &#8230; <a href="http://gonetothebirds.org/2011/08/05/purple-martins-are-in-violation-of-the-city-noise-ordinance/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gonetothebirds.org&amp;blog=8231050&amp;post=354&amp;subd=gonetothebirds&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Purple Reign Over Richmond</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 19:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Times-Dispatch dispatched a non-bird watcher to see what the Purple Martin hysteria is all about down in Shockoe Bottom in advance of the festival this Saturday and she found it pretty amazing! In case you don&#8217;t know, 25,000 or &#8230; <a href="http://gonetothebirds.org/2011/08/04/purple-reign-over-richmond/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gonetothebirds.org&amp;blog=8231050&amp;post=342&amp;subd=gonetothebirds&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Festival Highlights for This Saturday&#8217;s Purple Martin Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Baliles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Come get a raffle ticket for a free Purple Martin birdhouse! Jimmy Fitzgerald has assembled information about raising Purple Martins and has some wonderful prizes that he will raffle off!! Many other conservation organizations will be present to answer your &#8230; <a href="http://gonetothebirds.org/2011/08/02/festival-highlights-for-this-saturdays-purple-martin-festival/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gonetothebirds.org&amp;blog=8231050&amp;post=311&amp;subd=gonetothebirds&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Purple Martin Roost is Almost to 30,000 Birds!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 18:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Baliles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday, July 31st there were approximately 27,500 Purple Martins landing in the 11 Bradford Pear Trees in Shockoe Bottom roosting at their pre-migratory roost site. The peak is yet to come but it should make this weekend&#8217;s festival an &#8230; <a href="http://gonetothebirds.org/2011/08/01/purple-martin-roost-is-almost-to-30000-birds/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gonetothebirds.org&amp;blog=8231050&amp;post=326&amp;subd=gonetothebirds&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Video from July 24</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 16:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Baliles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is some video of about 10,000 Purple Martins landing in the Pear Trees in  Shockoe Bottom. Filed under: 2011 Festival<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gonetothebirds.org&amp;blog=8231050&amp;post=328&amp;subd=gonetothebirds&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Video of Martins&#8217; Hitting the Trees</title>
		<link>http://gonetothebirds.org/2011/07/28/video-of-martins-hitting-the-trees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Baliles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Video from Sue Ridd of the Purple Martins landing in the trees on 17th Street with the Monroe Building in the background. Filed under: 2011 Festival, Purple Martins<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gonetothebirds.org&amp;blog=8231050&amp;post=302&amp;subd=gonetothebirds&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Count is Over 10,000!</title>
		<link>http://gonetothebirds.org/2011/07/25/the-count-is-over-10000/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 21:50:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Baliles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There were ten diving waves of purple martins into the Bradford Pear trees on  Friday Night&#8230;&#8230;.July 22,  2011. There were at least one thousand in each wave.   So I am estimating that at least  10,000 martins are roosting in those pear &#8230; <a href="http://gonetothebirds.org/2011/07/25/the-count-is-over-10000/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gonetothebirds.org&amp;blog=8231050&amp;post=296&amp;subd=gonetothebirds&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is Dawnsong and How Does it Attract Purple Martins?</title>
		<link>http://gonetothebirds.org/2011/07/15/what-is-dawnsong-and-how-does-it-attract-purple-martins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Baliles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Purple Martin call  or song is called the &#8220;Dawn Song.&#8221; It is a recording of a male Purple Martin singing his song and made for attracting purple martins to a safe roosting site. It is usually played at dawn just &#8230; <a href="http://gonetothebirds.org/2011/07/15/what-is-dawnsong-and-how-does-it-attract-purple-martins/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gonetothebirds.org&amp;blog=8231050&amp;post=294&amp;subd=gonetothebirds&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Visit From Woodbridge to See The Purple Martins (and the Peregrines)</title>
		<link>http://gonetothebirds.org/2011/07/11/a-visit-from-woodbridge-to-see-the-purple-martins-and-the-peregrines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 22:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Baliles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent most of a day down in Richmond with my mother and my girlfriend to see the Purple Martin roost and try to see Peregrine Falcons. We first went to the VA Bazaar, which was alright, but not great, &#8230; <a href="http://gonetothebirds.org/2011/07/11/a-visit-from-woodbridge-to-see-the-purple-martins-and-the-peregrines/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gonetothebirds.org&amp;blog=8231050&amp;post=291&amp;subd=gonetothebirds&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Early Purple Martin Counts</title>
		<link>http://gonetothebirds.org/2011/07/08/early-purple-martin-counts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 15:31:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Baliles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Early Purple Martin Counts July 1 &#8211; 6,000 birds observed by  Jan Frye and Adolph White &#8211; About 10 visitors July 3 &#8211; 3,000 birds observed by  Sue Ridd, Adolph White and Sally Chamberlin &#8211; About 19 guests July 7 &#8211; &#8230; <a href="http://gonetothebirds.org/2011/07/08/early-purple-martin-counts/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gonetothebirds.org&amp;blog=8231050&amp;post=313&amp;subd=gonetothebirds&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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