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		<title>St. Paul Island Workshop Report.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey Everyone,
I&#8217;m just back from St. Paul Island, AK in the middle of the Bering sea.
I co-led a workshop with Greg Downing and had 10 participants.
We managed to photograph all of the breeding species of birds for the Island, including the four species of Songbirds that make the Island their home.
Below is an image of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alanmurphyphotography.com/blog/?p=363</link>
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		<title>Press Release</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Winner of WildBird Magazine&#8217;s 22nd Annual Photo Contest
I was happy to find out that I won first place in the &#8220;Shorebird&#8221; category.
This was the category I wanted to win, as the prize is a fantastic pair of Zeiss Binoculars.
The winning images are in the September/October issue.

Magazine Covers
I have two cover images coming out this month.
The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alanmurphyphotography.com/blog/?p=353</link>
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		<title>2011 Workshop Dates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I now have my 2011 workshops dates available.
I will be doing them at the Casa Santa Ana in South Texas. This is a beautiful B &#038; B with grounds that back up to the Santa Ana National Wildlife refuge. It is about 20 mins from McAllen.
We will be spending 3 mornings at the feeder setups, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alanmurphyphotography.com/blog/?p=327</link>
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		<title>Fun With a Home Made Nest Box</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For years I have been wanting to get an image of a Bluebird on a natural tree cavity.
The chances of finding a nest cavity that is low enough to the ground for photography is slim, so I decided to take matters into my own hands.
The first step was scouting for a dead tree that had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alanmurphyphotography.com/blog/?p=242</link>
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		<title>How to Photograph a Kingfisher</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During my last workshop in South Texas in Feb 2010, we noticed a Belted Kingfisher on the ranch pond.
We quickly did a set-up for this beautiful bird. The first thing we did was to set up a long perch in the water. I have found that Kingfishers prefer a perch in the water over one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alanmurphyphotography.com/blog/?p=303</link>
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		<title>Getting the White-tipped Dove up on a Rock</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The White-tipped Dove is a speciality bird of the Rio-Grande Valley in Texas. It can only be found in this part of the US.
I have always set myself a goal to get ground feeding birds like Quail, Dove etc up on a stump or rock when I photograph them.
This is a low percentage shot, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alanmurphyphotography.com/blog/?p=181</link>
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		<title>Wildbird Magazine Article</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you pick up a copy or subscribe to Wildbird magazine, you will find a four page article I did on Woodpecker set-ups for the Jan/Feb 2010 issue.


Only two spots left for my South Texas workshop April 12-15.
This is the only opening I have left for any workshop in the lower 48 states for 2010.
Let [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alanmurphyphotography.com/blog/?p=144</link>
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		<title>Set-up Heaven</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just returned from scouting new locations for future workshops and boy, did I find a gem.
The owners of this property have been putting out fruit every morning for years, at about 7 am each morning like clockwork, the birds arrive.
There were over 30 Kiskadees flying in to pick up grapes, along with three Altimira [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alanmurphyphotography.com/blog/?p=112</link>
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		<title>In Hog Heaven Shooting Raptors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent a nice few days on a friends ranch just south of San Antonio, TX. One of the ranch hands who was a hunter had shot a wild boar/hog and allowed me to have it to use to attrach birds of pray.
The first thing I did was to find a location that had a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alanmurphyphotography.com/blog/?p=88</link>
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		<title>Perch Placement Delima</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So now that you are doing set-ups and choosing your own perches, have you given any thought as to what angle you place the perch around your set-up?
Well I have been playing around with this for many years. Here&#8217;s what I have settled on doing.
If you place the perch going away from you, the bird will land with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alanmurphyphotography.com/blog/?p=82</link>
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