The Suffolk Nature Blog

Suffolk Flora ready for the AGM

Blogmaster — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:32:33 +0000

Martin Sanford has now confirmed that copies of the new 'Flora of Suffolk' will be ready for sale on the ...

81st AGM of the SNS

Blogmaster — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:15:53 +0000

The SNS AGM is on Weds April 21st in the Wolsey Room of the Holiday Inn, Copdock, Ipswich followed by the launch of the new FLORA OF SUFFOLK .... read on for more details ...

Autumn Members Evening

Blogmaster — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:12:40 +0000

The SNS Autumn Members Evening

Thursday November 19th at the Holiday Inn, Ipswich
7 pm for a 7:30 start

Come ...

SNS 5th Drawing and Photography Competition 2010

Blogmaster — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:34:33 +0000
For the 5th year running the Suffolk Naturalists' Society is running a competition for all ages to draw and photograph insects and other invertebrates ......

A Flora of Suffolk ~ pre publication offer

Blogmaster — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:19:34 +0000
A new county flora for Suffolk by Martin Sanford and Richard Fisk is set for publication in March 2010

Geo Suffolk - New Newsletter available

Blogmaster — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:11:32 +0100
Download the second edition of GeoSuffolk Times ... Places to go this Autumn & future events

New bumblebee heading your way

Adrian Knowles — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:04:43 +0100
A couple of times recently I have seen the bumblebee Bombus hypnorum in my garden in Capel St Mary. There ...

A few thoughts for Butterfly Recorders,

Apatura — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 08:07:38 +0100
July is the best time for butterfly numbers and diversity, which makes it a good time to find those special species ..

SNS Weather update

Blogmaster — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:24:52 +0100
Although the SNS Weather Records have been a little slow to be updated in the last couple of months due ...

Plague

Adrian Knowles — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:33:38 +0100
Has anyone else been plagued by greenfly or other aphids this afternoon? There have been clouds of them in my ...

New Geology Newsletter

Adrian Chalkley — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:30:44 +0100
GeoSuffolk, the county organisation concerned with increasing knowledge about the Geological Diversity of Suffolk has published a new leaflet entitled ...

An Amazing Stag Beetle - 36 hours dead but still moving!

Adrian Chalkley — Sat, 30 May 2009 18:17:50 +0100
I ran my usual May course this week at Flatford Field Studies Centre on identification of freshwater invertebrates but the most unusual find was a stag beetle ....

Painted Lady migration

A Lurker — Wed, 27 May 2009 23:58:59 +0100
Reading on the Norfolk Wildlife Forum there has been a fantastic influx of Painted Ladies from Northern Europe recently. The ...

Weather data for January to March is now available .....

Blogmaster — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 22:39:47 +0100
Weather data for January to March 2009 is now available for download in the same format as was used for ...

July Field Trip to Wheatfen Reserve

Blogmaster — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:21:11 +0000
On Sunday, 5th July at 11.00 a.m there is a joint field meeting with the Norfolk & Norwich Naturalists' Society
at the ...

The Suffolk Weather Data page. New Year update.

Blogmaster — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:38:47 +0000
The complete yearly weather data spreadsheet for Boxford, Suffolk is now available.

Wasp spider

John Harrold — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:43:52 +0100

I have found Wasp Spiders (Argiope bruennichi) in Wenhaston for three years now, and this year they are particularly numerous ...

SNS Geology Group field trips 2008 CANCELLED

Caroline Markham — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:40:19 +0100

Following a letter I have received today from the SNS Chairman, it is no longer possible to run the SNS Geology Group ...

SNS Geological Group Waveney Valley Field Trip April 26th

Caroline Markham — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:02:37 +0100

Led by Tim Holt-Wilson, the first of this year’s Suffolk Naturalists’ Society Geological Group field trips is on Saturday April 26...

A winter hedgerow?

Ilex — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:28:58 +0000
Yesterday was one of those great winter days, cold enough to be crisp and sunny enough to almost warrent sunglasses. It was interesting to see the remains ....

Wild Arums shooting already?

Ilex — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:31:13 +0000
Wild Arums shooting already?

Is it me or do things really start earlier each year? A quick look in my ...

Nominations requested for SNS Council by January 31st

Blogmaster — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:51:32 +0000
Two council members retire at the AGM

Building Stones God's Square Bury St Edmunds

Caroline Markham — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 10:42:47 +0000

The building stones page of www.geosuffolk.co.uk has an updated version of Bob Markham's map of 'God's Square' Bury St Edmunds - ...

Building Stones God's Square Bury St Edmunds

Caroline Markham — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 15:07:40 +0100
The SNS Geological Group walk on Saturday 14th July will be looking at the limestones and other rocks in the Cathedral ...

Whirligigs attacked by Water Crickets in Boxford

Ilex — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 20:44:38 +0100
Part one of a Nature Notebook about Hol Brook Stream

Fungus i.d.

Bio Med — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 21:29:34 +0100
I'm looking for some help in identifying some photos (not the best format for i.d.) of fungi. Any suggestions would ...

Ash trees on the decline?

Ilex — Mon, 14 May 2007 21:32:03 +0100
Ash trees around Boxford are still not in leaf, many buds and twigs appear dead because ..

SNS Members Surveys

Blogmaster — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 22:14:33 +0100
Why not join in with one of the SNS Members Surveys? Read on for more information ....

SNS Geological Group Meetings

Blogmaster — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 22:49:03 +0100
read this post to see the Geological Group meetings for 2007 ......

UK-wide White-letter Hairstreak Project

Apatura — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:12:09 +0000
A Butterfly Conservation project to search for elm and White-letter Hairstreaks nationwide. Why not join in?