Liebster Award, thank you Sue!

Sue of the blog Daily Echo has been so kind to nominate Dear Kitty. Some blog for the Liebster Award.

Thank you so much for this kind gesture!

The rules of this award are:

Once you’ve been nominated, you have to post 11 things about yourself, answer 11 questions from the person who nominated you and pass it on. Choose 11 people to award, link to them, tell them about their nominations, and create 11 new questions for them.

Eleven things about myself:

1. Which posts attracted most visitors to my blog, ever since it moved to WordPress in December 2011?

Top Posts for all days ending 2013-04-20 (Summarized)

Home page / Archives		32,074
British Thatcher aide accused of child abuse		5,764
After 35 years, wounds of Vietnamese napalm girl Kim Phuc still hurt		2,224
About		1,742
Boy raped by priest, then castrated		1,609
Günter Grass poem on Greece and austerity, English translation		1,543
Bahraini king’s sexual harassment of Lebanese singer		1,373
Thatcher’s Downing Street child abuse scandal		1,015
Long-tailed tits, owls, and flowers		866
Stop whipping of raped Maldives girl		798
Thai women’s escape from Bahraini forced prostitution		773
New African monkey species discovered		741
Dinosaur discovery in France		688
BBC: Pope Ratzinger ‘covered up paedophile priests scandals’. Like US Republicans		680
Zambian lioness Lady Liuwa update		634
Britain: Tony Blair’s own Watergate scandal		629
Will US soldier escape punishment for rape of Dutch girl?		583
Scotland: giant centipede, crocodile, and other fossils brought back to life		582
Dutch war crimes in Indonesia, photos		557
Blog of the Year 2012 award, thanks dogdaz!		555
USA: ancient Egyptian sarcophagus as corporate boss’ plaything		550
King of Spain, elephant killer, petition		518
Pompeii: ancient Roman brothel restored. Roman plants		517
Galapagos islands: why Darwin’s finches differ in beak size		475
Big new spider species discovery in Sri Lanka		464
Donald Trump’s sons butcher African elephants (?)		456
Tony Blair got rich from Iraq war		416
Brigitte Bardot’s Islamophobia and anti-Semitism		414
Georgian prison sexual abuse		410
New Zealand rare whale discovery		398
Dutch Romantic paintings and African mats		381

2. Where did visitors to my blog come from, ever since 25 February 2012, when WordPress Views by Country statistics started?

Top Views by Country for all days ending 2013-04-20 (Summarized)

Country	Views
United States	66,584
United Kingdom	29,138
Canada	10,728
Netherlands	7,994
Greece	5,693
Australia	4,936
India	4,831
Romania	4,207
Germany	3,591
France	3,154
Jamaica	2,654
New Zealand	2,359
Sweden	2,226
Italy	2,125
Belgium	2,089
Spain	1,829
Philippines	1,711
Armenia	1,689
Singapore	1,596
Indonesia	1,322
Ireland	1,321
Bahrain	1,080
Saudi Arabia	1,040
Brazil	1,038

3. Where did visitors to my blog come from, this week?

Top Views by Country for 7 days ending 2013-04-20 (Summarized)

Country	Views
United States	1,631
United Kingdom	705
Canada	371
Jamaica	170
Australia	156
Tunisia	139
India	118
Netherlands	98
Greece	97
Sweden	93
Germany	79
France	73
New Zealand	46
Spain	43
Armenia	38
Belgium	37
Ireland	34
Norway	34
Singapore	33
Indonesia	31
Philippines	28
Romania	27
Saudi Arabia	23
South Africa	23
Denmark	21
Japan	21
Brazil	21
Bahrain	20
Poland	20
Thailand	19
United Arab Emirates	18
Pakistan	18
Italy	17
Republic of Korea	17
Switzerland	16
Bangladesh	15
Kenya	15

4. I have 6,850 blog posts in the category “Animals” so far.
5. Of these, 413 are in the subcategory Amphibians, 3,509 in Birds, 857 in Fish, 1,438 in Invertebrates, 2,175 in Mammals, and 1,042 in Reptiles.
6. I have 2,700 blog posts in my category Art.
7. Of these, 162 are in Architecture, 45 in Dancing, 574 in Film, 696 in Literature, 890 in Music, and 896 in Visual arts.
8. The top rated posts on my blog are:

• Stop whipping of raped Maldives girl
  5/5 (8 votes)
• British painter David Mulholland
  5/5 (7 votes)
• My readers, from where? From where not?
  5/5 (6 votes)
• Eight hawfinches, siskins, jays at the cemetery
  5/5 (5 votes)
• British Mammal Society photo competition
  5/5 (5 votes)
• Canadian native children, a cruel history
  5/5 (5 votes)
• Workers shot in Greece for protesting unpaid wages
  5/5 (5 votes)
• Stop bee-killing pesticides, Dutch parliament says
  5/5 (4 votes)
• Dutch Amsterdam feral parakeets
  5/5 (4 votes)

9. I have neglected my blog roll, so it is not very complete.

10. Which search terms to find my blog did Internauts use this month?

Search Terms for 30 days ending 2013-04-20 (Summarized)

Search	Views
iguana	50
maldives whipping	47
sri lanka new spider	43
prostitution in bahrain	34
poisonous caterpillars	31
watergate scandal	29
lady liuwa	27
caterpillars	18
bishop john francis scandal	17
new spider species	17
bahrain prostitution	16
archaeological coins of india	15
van gogh museum reopening	14
dinosaur bones	13
great egret	13
lady liuwa cubs	13
unusual birds	12
egrets birds	10
ambergris texel	10
ortello business corporation	10
wetland animals	10

11. Since my blog moved to WordPress in December 2011, there have been 198,073 views.

Sue’s eleven questions are:

1. When did you start to write?

At primary school.

2. What genre do you read most?

Books about birds.

3. What is top of your bucket list?

Going to Svalbard.

4. What is your favourite book? (Go on, pick one, hard as it is…)

The Price of My Soul, by Bernadette Devlin.

5. What landscape sings to your heart?

Antarctica.

6. Are you a dog person or a cat person?

A bird person.

7. If you could go back in time to visit, where would you go?

To just before the Iraq war started, to prevent it from starting.

8. What makes you laugh?

Charlie Chaplin’s films.

9. Do you have a favourite quote?

“The great appear great to us, only because we are on our knees: LET US RISE.” By James Connolly. Written in 1897, but still very fitting in 2013.

10. What is your favourite time of year?

April.

11. If time and money were no object, where would you most like to visit?

Socotra island.

My eleven questions for my nominees are:

1. What is your favourite insect?
2. What do you think was your best blog post ever?
3. What do you think was your worst blog post ever?
4. Which blog post by you had most views?
5. In which city would you never want to live, and why?
6. What is your favourite kind of music?
7. Did you ever have a visitor to your blog from Greenland?
8. Did you ever have a visitor to your blog from Vatican City?
9. Did you ever have a visitor to your blog from San Marino?
10. Did you ever see an albatross?
11. Did you ever see a penguin (in the wild, not in a zoo)?

My nominees are:

1. jmgoyder

2. Queen’s end

3. Calderdale Save Our Services

4. Hands Off Our Homes – Leeds

5. Lluís Bussé

6. The Adventures of Mrs. Darwin

7. Rashid’s Blog

8. Dishing it out with Clarissa

9. SzimiStyle Birding

10. The Top 10 of Anything and Everything

11. sempreventophoto’S

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