Carny Deadlines: August 3, 2010

I and the Bird #131 - to The Flying Mullet by the end of the day today!

Friday Ark #307- to The Modulator by this Thursday, August5

House of Herps #9 - to Worm Salad by August 12

An Inordinate Fondness #7 - to Salagubang by August 13

Scientia Pro Publica #36 - to Reconciliation Ecology by August 13

Berry Go Round #31 - to Seeds Aside by August 25

Festival of the Trees #51 - to Orchards Forever by August 30

Carnival of Evolution #26 - to 360 Degree Skeptic by August 30

Carnival of the Blue #39- to Saipan Blog by August 30

Circus of the Spineless #53 - to Hectocotyli by August 30

Plus compilations, Bird Photography Weekly, Skywatch Friday, Today’s Flowers, My World Tuesday, and  Digiscoping Today

By N8 | On Aug 3, 2010 | Tagged | Comments (1)
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Newest Blogs in the Network: 8-1-10

Yes, this is Monday not Wednesday, but it’s also the first of the month and I’m giving you a month’s worth of new members. Apologies to the new member bloggers who have been waiting most patiently in the queue, and blog readers waiting most patiently by the RSS feed. Other parts of my life took more time and attention last month than usual, as happens from time to time.

Please welcome our new members. We’re happy to see them, one and all. Happy reading to everyone.

Art

Country Mouse Studio - Blog is about nature, wildlife and birds and why I paint the images I do

Backyard

diary of a suburban gardener - Making a suburban wildlife-friendly garden that doesn’t need watering and exploring the meanings of nature and our relationship with it.

Gardening with Binoculars - Join me in a dialog about adventures in a wildlife garden, and the native plants, birds, butterflies, and bugs we love! We’ll spend some time telling nature stories around the campfire.

Restoring The Landscape With Native Plants - The landscape restoration with native plants of a suburban yard in Minnesota. Nature observations and native plant photography

Slugyard - Slugyard hopes to encourage you and your family to pay more attention to the world just outside your door.

Views of the Ock - Blog about the wildlife that inhabit a small chalk river and the surrounding area in Oxfordshire UK

Birds

Anna Fasoli: Life as a Travelling Field Ornithologist - A blog about my travels in the field of ornithology, and other wildlife I see along the way.

LUTLEY BIRDER - Birding and visible bird migration on my local patch in the West MIdlands U.K

The Z Bird Birding Blog - BIRDS, trip reports, occasional live reporting from the Aleutians, random musings, and lame attempts at intelligence and humor

Hiking/Outdoors

First Class Great Outdoors - One high-maintenance girl’s journey to becoming an outdoors-woman

Live Free and Hike New Hampshire (NH) - Hi, I’m a proud New Hampshire resident who loves to hike with my wife, Jill, and my friends. I’ll share these adventures and my thoughts here, with you.

Natural History

Ask A Naturalist.com - Ask questions about nature and get answers from a naturalist.

Biodiversity of Argentina - Argentina – Environment – Fauna - Flora - Wildlife – Landscape - Photography – Environmental education – Ecology – Publication of autor.

Biodiversity of Bolivia - Bolivia – Environment – Fauna - Flora - Wildlife – Landscape - Photography – Environmental education – Ecology – Publication of author.

Biodiversity of Chile - Chile – Environment – Fauna - Flora - Wildlife – Landscape - Photography – Environmental education – Ecology – Publication of author.

Hill-Stead Nature Blog - Amusing, literate writing about nature with a 152-acre estate of woodland, wetland and meadow as the backdrop.  Topics are wide-ranging.  The estate, Hill-Stead Museum, is located in Farmington, CT and is listed on the National Register of Historic places

Information Central Photography - Plant and animal portraits primarily from Texas.

The journeys of Enrique Richard - landscape - photography - journeys - wildlife - folklore - nature conservation - fauna - flora…

Photography

Cadre Nature - Landscape, sky, animals, flora, waterfall, butterfly

Kenny Salazar Photography - Photographing nature to bring awareness to the beautiful world we live in.

Kootenay Nature Photos - Wildlife photography with an emphasis on birds, from the southeastern area of British Columbia.

Völgyi Sándor’s blog - Nature Photography & Photo Gallery

By wren | On Aug 2, 2010 | Tagged | Comments (2)
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Community Bulletin Board - August 1, 2010

No new news this week.

Don’t be shy! If you have contests or promotions, an upcoming blogoversary, want to share a new project you’re involved in or a cause you believe in, have items you wish to sell, want to solicit feedback from the NBN community, or anything else that might be of interest to our members, don’t hesitate to email me!

Submissions can be sent to canadianowlet [at] gmail [dot] com, with the subject line “NBN Bulletin Board”. Don’t forget to include your blog’s name and URL. The weekly board will be posted every Sunday.

Contests and Promotions

Amber of Birder’s Lounge is continuing her photo ID challenge for 2010 under the name Challenge for Charity. Try your hand at identifying a series of photos; the person with the most correct receives a $10 donation to the charity of their choice.

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Friday Roundup: July 30, 2010

Berry Go Round #30 - Come together at Brainripples

Friday Ark #306- at The Modulator

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Carny Deadlines: July 27, 2010

Festival of the Trees #50 - to Growing With Science Blog by tomorrow, July 28

Berry Go Round #30 - to Brainripples by tomorrow, July 28

Friday Ark #306- to The Modulator by this Thursday, July 29

Scientia Pro Publica #36 - to The Allotrope by Friday, July 30

Carnival of Evolution #25 - to The Thoughtful Animal by Friday, July 30

Carnival of the Blue #38- to The Arthropoda by July Friday, 30

Circus of the Spineless #52 - to The Birder’s Lounge by Friday, July 30

I and the Bird #131 - to The Flying Mullet by August 3

House of Herps #9 - to Worm Salad by August 12

An Inordinate Fondness #7 - to Salagubang by Sunday, July 18

Plus compilations, Bird Photography Weekly, Skywatch Friday, Today’s Flowers, My World Tuesday, and  Digiscoping Today

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Community Bulletin Board - July 25, 2010

No new news this week.

Don’t be shy! If you have contests or promotions, an upcoming blogoversary, want to share a new project you’re involved in or a cause you believe in, have items you wish to sell, want to solicit feedback from the NBN community, or anything else that might be of interest to our members, don’t hesitate to email me!

Submissions can be sent to canadianowlet [at] gmail [dot] com, with the subject line “NBN Bulletin Board”. Don’t forget to include your blog’s name and URL. The weekly board will be posted every Sunday.

Contests and Promotions

As a token of appreciation to the visitors to her blog (frequent or sometimes), Karen of KaHolly is giving away a set of six handmade notecards featuring a Bald Eagle photograph taken by herself. Drop by and leave a comment on any post during the month of July and you’ll be entered into a draw for these lovely cards. Read the full notice here, or just swing by Karen’s blog and while away some time reading her enjoyable and informative posts. Last chance to enter is this Saturday, so make sure you swing by and leave a comment!

Amber of Birder’s Lounge is continuing her photo ID challenge for 2010 under the name Challenge for Charity. Try your hand at identifying a series of photos; the person with the most correct receives a $10 donation to the charity of their choice.

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Friday Roundup: July 23, 2010

An Inordinate Fondness #6- Beetle Surprise at Insect Art

Scientia Pro Publica #35 - Kind of Curious carries the SPP flag this edition

House of Herps #8- Back home to the home site for the eighth edition.

I and the Bird #130- Another one for the birds at Count your Chicken! We’re taking over!

Friday Ark #305- at The Modulator

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Carny Deadlines: July 20, 2010

I and the Bird #130 - to Count Your Chicken! We’re Taking Over! by the end of the day today!

Friday Ark #305- to The Modulator by this Thursday, July 22

Berry Go Round #30 - to Brainripples by July 26

Festival of the Trees #50 - to Growing With Science Blog by July 28

Carnival of Evolution #25 - to The Thoughtful Animal by July 30

Carnival of the Blue #38- to The Arthropoda by July 30

Circus of the Spineless #52 - to The Birder’s Lounge by July 30

Plus compilations, Bird Photography Weekly, Skywatch Friday, Today’s Flowers, My World Tuesday, and  Digiscoping Today

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Nature Blog Networking: Rocky Mountain High, North

When we talk about the Rocky Mountains, Colorado generally gets all the publicity.  Maybe that’s for good reason, after all some of the most dramatic parts of that range lie within its perfectly boxed borders and it does host the Rocky Mountain National Park.  If there’s a single state with a legitimate claim to the Rockies, Colorado is it.  But mountain connoisseurs no doubt know that the mountains don’t just lose their drama and beauty once they cross that northern border.  In fact you could make a strong argument that once loosed from Colorado’s grips they become more wild, more untamed, more nature…y.

Moraine Lake, Banff NP, Canada; photo from wikipedia

Moraine Lake, Banff NP, Canada; photo from wikipedia

Fortunately the blogging doesn’t stop either.  And while many a fine blog can be found in Colorado and Utah, parts north boast their share of great nature writing too.  So we’ll continue on our quest along the spine of North America, to see what else waits for us.

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- Idaho, for its relative isolation and low population, has some great nature blogs, perhaps the increase in nature is directly proportional to the increase in fine nature blogging.  In any case, Rob’s Idaho Perspective is an excellent one.

- The city of Boise has a pair of Peregrine Falcons nesting in a box downtown.  Flight of the Peregrine Falcon is the blog set up to monitor and share their nesting success

- I’ve gone on record as encouraging non-profit organizations to get into the blogging game to stay in contact with their members and donors.  The Nature Conservancy of Idaho agrees, and keeps folks posted on Idaho Nature Notes.

- Robert Mortensen’s Idaho Birding Blog is definitely one of the best blogs in the area.  His ongoing series on Idaho birders and his successful attempts to bring people into eBird through friendly competition are especially notable.

- For such a big state, Montana doesn’t have nearly as many bloggers as it’s neighbor to the west.  but Montana Wildlife Gardener more than makes up for it with a fabulous garden of native flowers and grasses.

- Alberta is largely a prairie province but the Rockies run along its western edge, so from north of the border comes the fantastic photo-blog of Roberta Murray, Uncommon Depth.

- Also from Alberta, but focusing on growing wild plants, Gardening Zone 3b hails from the prairies of around Edmonton, where the Rockies are a influence on every part of that unique ecosystem.

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Enjoy the northern reaches of the Rocky Mountains through the words and photos of these great blogs.

Til next time!

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Community Bulletin Board - July 18, 2010

Don’t be shy! If you have contests or promotions, an upcoming blogoversary, want to share a new project you’re involved in or a cause you believe in, have items you wish to sell, want to solicit feedback from the NBN community, or anything else that might be of interest to our members, don’t hesitate to email me!

Submissions can be sent to canadianowlet [at] gmail [dot] com, with the subject line “NBN Bulletin Board”. Don’t forget to include your blog’s name and URL. The weekly board will be posted every Sunday.

Contests and Promotions

As a token of appreciation to the visitors to her blog (frequent or sometimes), Karen of KaHolly is giving away a set of six handmade notecards featuring a Bald Eagle photograph taken by herself. Drop by and leave a comment on any post during the month of July and you’ll be entered into a draw for these lovely cards. Read the full notice here, or just swing by Karen’s blog and while away some time reading her enjoyable and informative posts.

Amber of Birder’s Lounge is continuing her photo ID challenge for 2010 under the name Challenge for Charity. Try your hand at identifying a series of photos; the person with the most correct receives a $10 donation to the charity of their choice.

By Seabrooke | On Jul 18, 2010 | Comments (0)
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