In addition to the main pages of the Suffolk Nats website and White Admiral on line you can now read the Suffolk Nature Blog.

You may have read about Blogs (or ‘web logs’) in the press or discovered them on the internet yourself. Whilst I have seen them described as ‘on line ramblings by people with no life’ hopefully our Blog will be a useful adjunct to our member services.

The Aim of the Blog?

To put it simply the aim is to share information across the membership. And, since the Blog is open to public view it may be hoped to encourage a few new members in time.

What will appear on the Blog?

The Blog will contain short notes or pieces of writing concerned only with Natural History in Suffolk.

        This could be sightings of rare or unusual species.
        It could be interesting or unusual behaviour of birds, mammals or insects.
        Perhaps it will be unusual forms of flowers, trees or other plants that someone has seen.

Maybe a member wants to ask a question that someone else may know the answer to or is just so pleased with a recently taken photo that they would like to share it with others.

Additional benefits

We will also regularly publish updated details or changes to SNS field trips, and any important information from the SNS Council on the Blog. In this way we can get changes to events or sudden information notified to members instantly, for no cost where it is usually impossible to send in a printed form.

Can photographs be submitted?

Articles on the Blog can be short or long and can have photographs in them. Articles can be submitted (posted) into different sections of the Blog (listed on the left hand side of the page). For example there is one section especially for SNS and other natural history events taking place in Suffolk. The number of sections will I hope increase with time. There is already a photo gallery.

So I have to keep logging on to see if anything is new!

No. By becoming a registered ‘member’of our Blog you can choose to have an email sent to you when a new entry is posted. You can also choose to have notification of new postings only in those sections you are interested in. You can de-register at any time.

Who will be writing the entries on the Blog?

Hopefully you will. Any SNS member can e-mail giving him a pen name to appear on the blog and a password and then by using these you will be able to write articles on the Blog! It is as easy as browsing the internet, you need no special software. Anyone can do it. You can find further information on the SNS website just click here.

As always, this will work only if we use it. The Blog could be a really great way to spread information around county naturalists, flag up sites and species at risk and get in touch with like minded naturalists. But, if nobody uses it, it will simply disappear. So if you have access to the internet please try it out at:
http://snblog.boxvalley.co.uk/