Monthly Archives: June 2009


Featured Blog: Exploring the World of Trees

This week’s featured blog, Exploring the World of Trees by Dan Anderson, is a blog dedicated to raising the awareness of trees and their importance to our everyday lives. It strives to expose readers to interesting images, facts, and observations on a wide range of tree species from all over the world. Dan also blogs at Evergreen Tree Species. [...]

Community Bulletin Board – June 21, 2009

There’s always something going on in the nature blogger community. It was great to hear about the Birders who Blog, Tweet and Chirp field trip that guest blogger Christopher of Picus Blog wrote about earlier this week. By the sounds of it, everyone had a great time! This week we have news of another meet-up [...]

A question for our readers

We want to learn more about you and what you would like to get from the Nature Blog Network. To do this, we will feature a series of short polls most weekends. This is the first in the series. Thank you for taking the time to answer. If you’d like to expand on your answer [...]

Friday Roundup: June 19, 2009

Two carnivals this week, more coming the next… –=====– Scientia Pro Publica #6 – Science for the people at Mauka to Makai Friday Ark #248 – at the Modulator UPDATE – The Moth and Me #4 – As a welcome to our newest colleague, I forget her carnival at the North American Moths Backyard Inventory.  [...]

A Good Time was had by All: Birders who Blog, Tweet, and Chirp (Guest Post by Christopher of Picus Blog)

This past Saturday, June 13th, I had the distinct pleasure of leading a field trip of Birders who Blog, Tweet, and Chirp to Plum Island in Massachusetts plus a few locations in southern New Hampshire. The birds that we saw were not the most interesting part of the day. Whoa – did I just say [...]

Newest Blogs in the Network 6-17-2009

Please join me in welcoming the six newest members of the Nature Blog Network. Take a moment to check out their blogs and welcome them to our group. Birds Bamber Bridge Birder – Sightings, photos, and ramblings of our birding days out Birdingdude – A fun blog that covers my journey as a birder, gardener, [...]

Carny Deadlines: June 16, 2009

Carnivals locking down submissions for the near future include… –=====– Friday Ark #248 – to the Modulator by this Thursday, June 18 I and the Bird #103 – to Birdfreak by June 23 Berry Go Round #18 – to Foothills Fancies by June 26 Festival of the Trees #36 – to TGAW by June 29 [...]

Nature Blog Networking: A simple proposition

I don’t know if you guys have noticed, but the NBN toplist is slowly but steadily ticking up towards 1000 blogs.  As one tasked to write about these blogs, that’s both an exciting and overwhelming proposition.  Within those nearly thousand strong are communities within communities, groups of bloggers that share subjects or themes or common [...]

Featured Blog: The Backyard Arthropod Project

Meet this week’s featured blogger, Tim Eisele. He’s the blogger behind The Backyard Arthropod Project. Tim is not actually an entomologist, or even an expert in any of the life sciences. He is just a guy who has always been interested in insects, spiders, and other arthropods. He and his family have launched a long-term [...]

Community Bulletin Board – June 14, 2009

Here it is, your first installment of the shiny new Nature Blog Network community bulletin board! Due to the rather short time period since the initial announcement of the community board, there are only a handful of news items for this first week. However, I very much hope to see this grow in coming weeks! [...]