Thane has the tradition of Sunday butterflying at Yeoor / Owale/ Nagla/ Tungareshwar etc. I am sure there are some members who must be there at least 30 -35 Sundays of the year.
________________________________ From: Rajesh Sachdev <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, March 7, 2012 3:49 PM Subject: Re: [ButterflyIndia] Citywise Activities : Bangalore We , group of volunteers, visit Matheran (near Mumbai) every Friday for field visit. Anyone interested can joiI an in. -- Regards Rajesh Sachdev http://project-matheran.webs.com/ http://www.facebook.com/leopardguy On 7 March 2012 02:35, Vijay <[email protected]> wrote: > >Hi > >It will be nice to go ahead and plan few outings (preferably once a month) >initially to know members and form groups in each city. Once we know few >people, we can take up the data compilation. > >For Bangalore, Krushnamegh may announce his date and time for GKVK and members >can join him to start with. Once they are familiar with methodology, they may >replicate it in their own areas with sub groups for members. Aparna please go >ahead and plan other places, till Krushnamegh returns. > >It will be nice to have outing in each city once a month for new members to >learn form experienced members. So members form all cities are welcome to >announce the outings on group. So members from Mumbai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, >Trivendrum, Pune .... we are looking forward to announcements. > >Regards, > >Vijay > >--- In [email protected], Krushnamegh Kunte <krushnamegh@...> >wrote: >> >> 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: krushnamegh@..., krushnamegh@... >> Website: http://biodiversitylab.org/ >> >> Indian Foundation for Butterflies: http://ifoundbutterflies.org/ >> Emails: krushnamegh@..., krushnamegh@... >> >> >> >> From: Aparna V K <bizzare.appu@...> >> 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 >> > > -- Enjoy
