Monthly Archives: March 2009


Carny Deadlines: March 31, 2009

Hope you got your submissions in to the great monthly carnivals that are publishing this very week.  That roundup is on Friday, but there’s no time the present to get ready for the next round… ======= I and the Bird #97- to Great Auk – or Greatest Auk? by the end of the day today! [...]

By N8 | On Mar 31, 2009 | Tagged | Comments (2)
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Nature Blog Networking: Out like a Lion

There’s a saying, and I don’t know if it’s specifically an American one, that the month of March comes “in like a lamb, and out like lion”. Basically, if the weather is calm at the beginning of the month, it’ll be the opposite at the end. Here in North Carolina we’re thankfully getting the lamb, [...]

By N8 | On Mar 31, 2009 | Tagged | Comments (3)
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Good of the Order – Change of Address Notification

Write a blog long enough and at some point in time you are bound to encounter at least a small bit of difficulty between youself and your site host. Most of the time, and with luck, it will be possible to resolve the problem in less than a day. However in some more serious situations, the [...]

By BABW | On Mar 29, 2009 | Tagged | Comments Off
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Nature News in Review – Week Ending March 27, 2009

Flora Efforts to mitigate climate change could be hampered if nations do not agree to protect the world’s forests by the end of the year. Despite FOX news proclaiming it safe, the U.S. Border Patrol delays Rio Grande plant poisoning. (Hey, its simply the process of dropping large amounts of a chemical herbicide into a [...]

By BABW | On Mar 28, 2009 | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off
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Friday Roundup: March 27, 2009

Just the one for this week, more coming the next… ======= Friday Ark #235 – The Modulator, keeping us in business. No Tangled Bank, but more news on something to fill the void next week

By N8 | On Mar 27, 2009 | Tagged | Comments Off
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Newest Blogs in the Network 3-25-2009

Wow, amazing sites keep coming in to the Nature Blog Network. Please give these 16 new blogs a warm NBN welcome by checking them out… BIRDS Bourbon, Bastards and Birds – The strange and terrible saga of being a birdwatcher. Currently being brought to you from Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. Pacific NW Backyard Birder [...]

By Mike | On Mar 25, 2009 | Tagged | Comments Off
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Carny Deadlines: March 24, 2009

Deadlines for this week and the next few… ======= Tangled Bank #127 – Still no news on whether this carnival will be resurrected, but the next edition is scheduled for this week at the Moore Group Blog so get your stuff in soon, I guess. Friday Ark #235 – to the Modulator by March 26 [...]

By N8 | On Mar 24, 2009 | Tagged | Comments Off
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Nature Blog Networking: Spring flowers

I admit to a northern hemisphere bias here, even though the NBN as a whole has several excellent southern hemisphere members as well.  I suppose I should try to mitigate that bias as best I can, but this time of year it’s awfully hard to.  You see, the equinox is behind us, and here in [...]

By N8 | On Mar 24, 2009 | Tagged | Comments (2)
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Nature News in Review – Week Ending March 20, 2009

Flora Cyclopogon elatus orchid species rediscovered in Florida swamp. (Here’s the link to the Flickr image mentioned but not shown in the article.) “In the absence of trees, our communities would simply collapse.” – Andrew Dokurugu, a project officer for Tree Aid. Fauna European and Peruvian herpetologists have discovered the smallest frog yet known from [...]

By BABW | On Mar 21, 2009 | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off
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Friday Roundup: March 20, 2009

Excellent carnivals up this week in the NBN-osphere ======= The Moth and Me #1 – Celebrate the lost lepidopterans at the first edition of this carnival at the North American Moths Backyard Inventory I and the Bird #96 – More like I am the Bird at the Birdchaser Friday Ark #235 – Don’t forget the [...]

By N8 | On Mar 20, 2009 | Tagged | Comments Off
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