Aparna, you have already taken the lead, so why don¹t you go ahead and put together a list of us in BLR? If we are going to do this on a regular basis, I would suggest that we identify two or three good spots to watch butterflies in and around BLR and start counting butterflies there twice a month. That will be a very important dataset in the long term from which we will learn a lot. Watching butterflies together on its own is good, but systematic population-level data collection will go a much longer way. I am willing to do this on GKVK campus, so people from that part of town can join me if they wish. Rohit Girotra goes to the reserve forest near house on a regular basis, maybe a team from that part of town can start working there. Perhaps the various local teams could meet once in a while to exchange notes on species identification, compile data and chat about butterflies.
With best regards, Krushnamegh. ------------------------------------------------- Krushnamegh Kunte, PhD Ramanujan Fellow and Reader National Center for Biological Sciences (NCBS) Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) GKVK, Bellary Road, Bengaluru 560065, India. Ph: +91 80 2366-6001/02/18/19, ext 6410 Ph (London): +44 7831-204-169 Mobile: + 91 9483-525-925 Email: [email protected], [email protected] Website: http://biodiversitylab.org/ Indian Foundation for Butterflies: http://ifoundbutterflies.org/ Emails: [email protected], [email protected] From: Aparna V K <[email protected]> Reply-To: butterflyindia <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 09:25:25 +0530 To: butterflyindia <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [ButterflyIndia] Butterfly India needs a little more support from us. Hi, A while ago there was a discussion on the group to start outings in different regions. Can we start this again? A lot of new comers like me can learn a lot through such outings and interactions. I live in bangalore and I see that quite a few of us from around here. Can we start 2 outings per month basis? I am willing to co-ordinate the arrangements. -- Aparna On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Krushnamegh Kunte <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Dear Nelson, > > I agree with all your points. I had talked to Rohan and Vijay two weeks ago > and Rohan had agreed to give weekend updates from Fecaebook if any interesting > images had been posted there that week. Ashok and others could also post links > to the blog whenever anything interesting gets posted. > > > > With best regards, > > Krushnamegh. > ------------------------------------------------- > > Krushnamegh Kunte, PhD > > Ramanujan Fellow and Reader > National Center for Biological Sciences (NCBS) > Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) > GKVK, Bellary Road, > Bengaluru 560065, India. > Ph: +91 80 2366-6001/02, extension 6410 > Mobile: + 91 9403-975-925 > Email: [email protected] <http://[email protected]> , > [email protected] <http://[email protected]> > Website: http://biodiversitylab.org/ > > Indian Foundation for Butterflies: http://ifoundbutterflies.org/ > Emails: [email protected] > <http://[email protected]> , [email protected] > <http://[email protected]> > > > > From: Nelson Rodrigues <[email protected] <http://[email protected]> > > Reply-To: butterflyindia <[email protected] > <http://[email protected]> > > Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 21:01:29 -0800 (PST) > To: butterflyindia <[email protected] > <http://[email protected]> > > Subject: [ButterflyIndia] Butterfly India needs a little more support from > us. > > > > > > > > > > > And that includes me... > > yes friends, once upon a time we used to receive lots of images from all of > us, now the numbers have come down as all of us can see. > > A great performance comes from the artist and the audience applause, very > often nice pictures come up but the response from our end is almost > missing..Very often krushnamegh and Isaac Kehimkar have some encouraging > words to say, I think we all ought to emulate them. That is what will > encourage the others to send more of their images. > > A good butterfly photographer from Mumbai told me a few months ago," I > prefer to post on Facebook as there is some response from the viewers.... > When i send the images to Butterfly India is as if i have posted them > against some dead wall" > > Vijay Barve the leader of the group is trying his best with new themes but i > am sure the response from the rest of us could be better, As Butterfly > India has more than 1000 members > > We have to work on two fronts one will to get people to send pictures , the > other side will be to ask members to send words of encouragement to those > who have posted if you are reluctant to post your letter on the group > please send a a personal message to the contributor. Almost all artists > like some feedback on their work. > > Also most of us check the mails on weekends unfortunately sometimes there is > no mail on these two vital days, could we have another moderator who will > help out on these two days. > > Suggestion no 3 would be Could someone pick up the images from facebook and > upload it on this site on a once a week basis. All the photos can come > under one mail entitled...Images from Facebook this week. Of course a common > consensus is required regarding this suggestion. > > Any other suggestions from readers how we can revitalise this group are > welcome > > Nelson Rodrigues > > > > > > > > > -- Enjoy
