9 November 2013
As of today I’ve been writing Outside My Window for six years. The crows are crowing, “Yow!”
Every year I provide statistics, but since this is a Saturday I’ll keep it brief so we can get back to our errands or play time. (In my case, errands.) Here we go:
Did you know you’re one of 574 visitors per day (this year’s average) who generate 21% of all traffic to WQED.org?
Some days are more popular than others. Sadly the most visited blog entry was the news of Silver Boy’s death on June 14. More than 3,000 people read about him that day, 79 commented here, and many more commented via Facebook and at the news websites.
Falcon or Hawk? from 2011 continues to win the top prize from Google search.
My favorite photos this year are those that tell stories: Dramatic peregrines stooping to conquer, turkeys strutting their stuff, and a robin mistaking his reflection for a rival.
Three of the many blogs that taught me new things were: Juvenile peregrines have special gear to help them fly, modern cornfields are wastelands, and the Border Wall affects birds, too.
Thanks to you, my readers, we have something to crow about.
Now we are six! 🙂
(animation by Joan Guerin) bird-thday
Happy Birdday, Kate! I have been enjoying and learning from your blog since the 2010 Cathedral of Learning nesting season. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and insight with us.
Congratulations! I hope you have many more anniversaries! Keep up the good work!
May you blog on for many more years. As a reporter on our natural world you keep me grounded and protected from the toxins in our world. Live long and prosper
Happy Birthday/Anniversary Kate! You and your blog are great! THANK YOU!
Congratulations on a wonderful 6 years. May you have many more. I learn so very much each morning and I thank you for that.
Happy 6th Birdthday, Kate!
Thank you for your labor of love 🙂
congratulations, Kate, and happy 6th anniversary. Your blog is one of the first things I look at in the morning, while I sip my coffee. If i think they’d be interested, I pass it on to a collection of friends I call “bird fans.” We all enjoyed your visit to my garden club, several years ago, and it’s from that group that I gathered your “bird fans.”
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Congratulations, Kate! Like Libby, your column is what I enjoy with that all-important first cup of coffee. I often start a sentence with, “Well, I read on Kate’s blog that . . .” 🙂 Keep up the good work!
Happy Birthday! I enjoy your blog so much and continue to learn so much from you! I do the exact thing the Jennie said. Today I read on Kate’s blog…. Thanks!
I do as many crosswords, etc., as I can, but I can’t make sense of
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Whatever does it mean?! Other than Happy B-day, to which I concur!
Anne