Thanks for tagging this blog, Carolyn!

Carolyn has tagged this blog. Thank you so much!

Tagging is a bit similar to blogger awards, but it still has its own rules.

The rules of tagging are:

1. Post these rules.

2. Post a photo of yourself and eleven random facts about you.

3. Answer the questions given to you in the tagger’s post.

4. Create eleven new questions and tag new people to answer them.

5. Go to their blog/twitter and let them know they have been tagged.

11 random facts about me:

1. The visitors to Dear Kitty. Some blog during the last three months came from:

Top Views by Country for 90 days ending 2013-03-04 (Summarized)

Country	Views
United States	20,790
United Kingdom	7,401
Canada	4,050
Netherlands	2,212
India	1,810
Australia	1,445
Romania	1,302
Greece	1,168
Germany	1,116
Jamaica	1,115
France	906
Italy	715
New Zealand	644
Singapore	574
Spain	572
Armenia	545
Philippines	510
Belgium	415
Bahrain	410
Indonesia	397
Saudi Arabia	392
Ireland	377
Brazil	333
Japan	320
Sweden	312
Turkey	291
United Arab Emirates	280
Pakistan	279
Hong Kong	270
South Africa	249
Poland	248
Switzerland	248
Malaysia	245
Russian Federation	199
Norway	192
Mexico	189
Portugal	177
Serbia	167
Venezuela	161
Egypt	159
Denmark	155

2. Which search engines brought visitors to my blog, since it moved to WordPress in December 2011?

Referrer		Views
Search Engines		78,858
Google Search 36,488 Google Image Search 34,808 Bing 2,732 Yahoo Search 2,538 Yahoo Image Search 422 search.babylon.com 269 Google Mobile 238 AOL 205 Ask.com 174 isearch.avg.com 146 search-results.com 127 Conduit.com Search 126 mywebsearch.com 122 Yahoo Mobile 75 WordPress.com Search 62 search.bt.com 56 search.comcast.net 48 Bing Mobile 44 dogpile.com 31 sweetim.com 28 search.sky.com 20 swagbucks.com 12 search.softonic.com 12 talktalk.co.uk 12 search.incredimail.com 11 earthlink.net 9 orange.co.uk 7 t-online.de 7 search.virginmedia.com 6 peoplepc.com 4 icq.com 4 search.com 3 Yandex 3 search.imesh.com 3 kvasir.no 2 walla.co 2

3. My most visited blog posts this week:

Top Posts for 7 days ending 2013-03-04 (Summarized)

2013-02-25 to Today

Title		Views
Home page / Archives		472
Versatile Blogger Award, thanks tuttacronaca!		84
Bahraini king’s sexual harassment of Lebanese singer		56
Kenyan boy saves lion, cattle lives		52
British Mammal Society photo competition		45
Zambian lioness Lady Liuwa update		36
Temporarily turning off my “like” notifications		31
United States war in Africa		25
After horsemeat, donkey meat scandal		23
Reptiles, amphibians as pest control, video		18
Bird watching in India		18
Neonicotinoids kill grassland birds		18
Birds help lichen grow		18
To the cranes in France		18
Welcome subscriber #900, Kate!		17
Britain: Tony Blair’s own Watergate scandal		17
Dutch bittern video		17
What freshwater seals eat		16
Thai women’s escape from Bahraini forced prostitution		16
Bahrain dictatorship bans Guy Fawkes masks		16
Turtle shell evolution		15
About		15
Indonesian wayang theatre		14
Cuckoo spring migration back from Africa		14
Dutch queen selling warships to Oman dictatorship		13
Pompeii: ancient Roman brothel restored. Roman plants		13
Canada: many dinosaur bones found		13
Scotland: giant centipede, crocodile, and other fossils brought back to life		13
Israeli segregated public transport		12
Worm species discovery, new for Europe		12
Ghanaian women’s forced prostitution in Bahrain		11
Jerusalem’s golden butterfly, a new species		11
Kestrel and great egrets		11
New Zealand ‘extinct’ petrel rediscovered		11
Galapagos islands: why Darwin’s finches differ in beak size		10
World’s biggest bird count results		10
USA: ancient Egyptian sarcophagus as corporate boss’ plaything		10
Siskins, hawfinch, brambling video		10
Plants etc. in the botanical gardens		10

4. Which links do internauts click on my blog, ever since it moved to WordPress?

Clicks for all days ending 2013-03-04 (Summarized)

URL	Clicks
gravatar.com	866
en.wikipedia.org	521
21stcenturywire.com	251
morningstaronline.co.uk	180
aangirfan.blogspot.com	175
socialistworker.co.uk	170
dearkitty1.files.wordpress.com	147
mirror.co.uk	139
focus.de/kultur/buecher/europas-schande-das-gedicht-von-guenter-grass-im-wortlaut_aid_758777.html	125
actuable.es/peticiones/que-rey-juan-carlos-i-deje-ser-presidente-honor-de	114
wsws.org	95
gonzoj.wordpress.com/2012/10/30/margaret-thatchers-top-aide-peter-morrison-in-paedophile-ring/	86
thisismoney.co.uk/news/article-2224167/Former-Minister-says-Thatcher-aide-paedophile-preyed-boys-home–Hague-known.html?ITO=1490	85

5. Which gravatars got the most clicks from my blog, ever since it moved to WordPress?

Clicks for all days ending 2013-03-04 (Summarized)

gravatar.com/petrel41	67
gravatar.com/marinakanavaki	64
gravatar.com/narhvalur	23
gravatar.com/fluxnews	23
gravatar.com/edamib	20
gravatar.com/natycalinescu	19
gravatar.com/dragoscalinescu	18
gravatar.com/kotev1000	16
gravatar.com/metaretriever2	15
gravatar.com/clanmother	14
gravatar.com/waldotomosky	14
gravatar.com/gdartdesign	13
gravatar.com/magdalena36	12
gravatar.com/kingroar	11
gravatar.com/schtiel	11
gravatar.com/cindyknoke	11
gravatar.com/freetagzone	10
gravatar.com/mmmarzipan	10
gravatar.com/vickynanjapa	9
gravatar.com/bgeorgeb	9
gravatar.com/rhubblog	8
gravatar.com/eda8975682d6d1f11b74766ef96bb6d0	8
gravatar.com/smpages	8
gravatar.com/carinaragno	8
gravatar.com/rab10001	8
gravatar.com/rentalmobilkebayoran	8
gravatar.com/ongenocide	7
gravatar.com	7
gravatar.com/misbehavedwoman	6
gravatar.com/juliannedavidson	6
gravatar.com/manipalphotoblog	6
gravatar.com/aspergersgirls	6
gravatar.com/lesleycarter	5
gravatar.com/deeacalinescu	5
gravatar.com/tomsimard	5
gravatar.com/fivereflections	5
gravatar.com/wickedandweirdaroundtheworld	5
gravatar.com/bublibeauty	5
gravatar.com/iwtkangaroo	5
gravatar.com/exploredreamdiscovertours	5
gravatar.com/nkin	5
gravatar.com/alruss	5
gravatar.com/xrayspectator	5
gravatar.com/outdoorpictures	5

6. Which search terms were used most to find my blog this week?

2013-02-25 to Today

Search	Views
great egret	8
african plants	7
jerusalem fritillary	6
watergate scandal	6
manet london	5
jerusalem’s golden butterfly.	5
tropical rainforest flowers	5
anne franks sister	5
lady liuwa update	4
analysis aurora massacre	4
biggest squid	4
dinosaur statues in roundabouts in scotland	4
plateosaurus	4

7. My blog posts with the most comments:

Post	Comments
Blog of the Year 2012 award, thanks dogdaz!	111
Very Inspiring Blogger Award, thanks Arlen!	55
Blog of the Year 2012 award, thanks Russell!	54
Humpback whale beaches on Dutch island	35
Versatile Blogger Award again, thanks Miss Marzipan!	34
Blog of the Year 2012 award, thanks waji!	31
Beached humpback whale Netherlands, videos	30
Blog of the Year 2012 award, thanks Miss Marzipan!	30
Woodpecker, blackbird on balcony	29
Very Inspiring Blogger award, thanks II 4S Aopmrdd!	29
Dutch stranded humpback whale update	28

* Based on the 1000 most recent comments.

8. Also about comments at my blog; according to WordPress statistics:

Comments per month:	947
Total comments:	47,454
Most active recent day:	February 12, 2013
Most active time of day:	07:00

9. I had no Internet gravatar photo until  recently. Thanks, Arlen Shahverdyan, for your advice to get one, resulting in my red-billed firefinch gravatar.

10. From the WordPress notifications:

On Friday February 22, 2013 you surpassed your previous record of most likes in one day ( 488 ) for your posts on Dear Kitty. Some blog.

11. So far, November 2012 is my month with most blog posts: 348.

Carolyn’s questions, and my replies, are:

1. If life was ‘just a bowl of cherries’… which fruit would you rather be? Strawberry.

2. Who is your favourite singer? Maria Farantouri.

3. Snow or Beach? Maybe snow on a beach.

4. Did you have a favourite toy when growing up? Did it have a name? Did you take it with you everywhere you went? Yes, a little textile polar bear. Its name refered to ice. No, I did not take it everywhere; like, not to school.

5. What are your favourite things to do on weekends? Birdwatching; sleeping a little longer.

6. Did you have a hobby when you were a kid? Playing soccer.

7. Are you a sporty type, or more the studious type? Maybe you are both…! I study a lot, and used to be in soccer, track and field, chess and table tennis clubs.

8. If you were in a raft in the middle of the ocean, who would you like for company? A very good sailor who would know how to reach land or alarm a passing ship.

9. Do you keep your birthday cards? No.

10. Is life what you expected as a child? No, it is different, but still good 🙂

11. Do you have a pet? No. I used to have a terrarium with native frogs. But they kept leaping out. So, I set them free.

And my nominees are:

1. Views From A Small Island

2. ~ Loredana Milu ~

3.  Natalia Maks

4. How to Cross an Ocean

5. kirstywirsty

6. The Balsamean

7. andrei plimbarici

8. Where Lemons Blossom

9. Rising Continent

My new questions for my nominees are:

1. Which bird species, which you have never seen yet, would you like to see?

2. Which mammal species, which you have never seen yet, would you like to see?

3. Which reptile or amphibian species, which you have never seen yet, would you like to see?

4. Which fish species, which you have never seen yet, would you like to see?

5. Which insect or other invertebrate species, which you have never seen yet, would you like to see?

6. Which plant species, which you have never seen yet, would you like to see?

7. To which planet in the solar system would you like to go in a spaceship?

8. Which subject do you think there should be more of/should have been more of at school?

9. Who do you think is the worst man still alive at the moment?

10. Who do you think is the worst woman still alive at the moment?

11. Who do you think is the worst woman or man no longer alive at the moment?

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