Sunshine Award, thank you Afsheen Anjum!

My dear blogging friend Afsheen Anjum of the blog Dreams to Reality ! had been so generous to nominate Dear Kitty. Some blog for the Sunshine Award.

Thank you for this kind gesture!

The rules of this award are:

-Announce in a post that you received the Award and display the Award icon in your post.
-Thank the blogger who nominated you.
-Write 10 interesting things about yourself.
-Nominate 10 great and inspirable bloggers to receive the Award.
-Link your nominees and let them know they have been awarded.

Ten things about myself:

1. Most visits to my blog, so far today, came from:

Country	Views
United States	63
Jamaica	35
Singapore	20
United Kingdom	16
Australia	7
Germany	6
Romania	5
France	4
Canada	4
Sweden	4
Netherlands	2
India	2
Indonesia	1

2. Most visits to my blog this month came from:

Country	Views
United States	4,581
United Kingdom	2,107
Canada	640
Jamaica	564
Netherlands	557
Australia	535
Germany	520
Sweden	434
France	325
India	249
Italy	197
Ireland	154
Belgium	140
Singapore	136
Turkey	128
Philippines	124
Romania	115
Bahrain	113
Spain	110
South Africa	102
New Zealand	99
Greece	95
Saudi Arabia	94
Poland	83
Brazil	78
Indonesia	67
Pakistan	66
United Arab Emirates	64
Denmark	61
Norway	60
Switzerland	51
Japan	48
Hong Kong	47
Costa Rica	47
Malaysia	46
Republic of Korea	44

3. Remarkably, this month, as my reports on Costa Rica started, the blog got more visits from Costa Rica than usually.

4. Which blog posts or pages attracted most visits to my blog today?

Title		Views
Home page / Archives		50
Costa Rican bird photos		10
Famous silent film rediscovery		10
Bertolt Brecht opera on British stage		7
Long-tailed duck, video		6
Robin singing, butterfly flying at cemetery		6
Squirrel ‘shares’ food, video		5
Hitler’s propaganda in 1930s Britain		5
British woman’s ill-treatment in private prison		4
Stop anti-disabled people corporation Atos		4

5. Which blog posts or pages attracted most visits to my blog this month?

Top Posts for 30 days ending 2014-04-03 (Summarized)

Title		Views
Home page / Archives		2,391
Bahraini king’s sexual harassment of Lebanese singer		350
Rubens, Rembrandt, differences in what they painted		145
Pre-Inca archaeological discoveries in Peru		116
Most hated animals top 50		115
Two lion cubs in Lady Liuwa’s pride in Zambia		111
About		90
Dutch in Suriname, most cruel slave-masters		84
Slavery and love in Suriname, new film		76
The Lighthouse Award, thank you, Horty!		73
Poas volcano in Costa Rica		70
USA: ancient Egyptian sarcophagus as corporate boss’ plaything		67
Thai women’s escape from Bahraini forced prostitution		65
European Union greenwash, cartoon		63
Poisonous caterpillars infest Spurn Point in England		62
Costa Rican flowers, butterflies and bees		60
Dutch poet Leo Vroman dies		58
Costa Rica, Baltimore oriole and squirrel		57
Skunk Anansie singer Skin interviewed		54
UK: cash for peerages police investigation may bring Blair to court		53
Great white shark Lydia’s record-breaking journey		53
German anti war artist Käthe Kollwitz		53
Costa Rican butterflies and birds, 14 March		51
Less posts on this blog		50
To the wildlife in Costa Rica, 13 March		49
Pope Francis I, the Vatican, and the Heracles myth		47
Awards		46
Valuable sperm whale vomit discovered by small boy		46
Great spotted cuckoo in Wales		46
Costa Rica hummingbirds and other mountain birds		45
Bronzino painting restored after prude censorship		43
Frequently asked questions		41
Miniskirt ban in Italy		41
New Ukrainian government includes anti-Semites		39
Wonderful Team Member Readership Award, thank you Kelly!		36

6. While I was in Costa Rica, my blog visit numbers, ever since I moved to WordPress in December 2011, passed the 400,000 mark. The figure is 404,780 by now. Thank you, everyone!

7. Which referrers referred most to my blog this month?

Referrers for 30 days ending 2014-04-03 (Summarized)

Referrer		Views
Search Engines		8,281
WordPress Dashboard		199
WordPress.com Reader		140
r.search.yahoo.com		88
go.videoentertainmnt.com		75
Facebook		70
topix.com		55
Twitter		52
disclose.tv		35
search.tb.ask.com		26
r.duckduckgo.com		24
duckduckgo.com		15
theinsatiabletraveler.com/2014/03/12/the-horror-of-canned-lion-hunting-and-what-you-can-do-to-stop-it/		15
artisticlyxpressedthoughts.wordpress.com		15
topix.net		14
mail.aol.com		14
birdingfrontiers.com		12
en.gravatar.com/petrel41		12
kuidle.com		9
garryrogers.com		9

8. Which search terms brought most visits to my blog this month?

Search Terms for 30 days ending 2014-04-03 (Summarized)

Search	Views
lighthouse	17
vicenza italy	11
most hated animals	9
tony blair response to icc uk investigation	8
poisonous caterpillars	7
sexual assault in the united states military	7
bijju animal	6
egyptian sarcophagus	6

9. Most popular topics Dear Kitty. Some blog has written about recently:

Topic	Views
Human rights	514
Economic, social, trade union, etc.	475
Environment	390
Crime	332
Peace and war	303
UK	272
Birds	260
Netherlands	239
Biology	236

If you tag your posts effectively, this panel will show you which topics get the most traffic. Snapshot generated from your top posts over the past week.

10. 2,331 people follow my blog. 166 people follow comments at my blog.

My ten nominees are:

1. Konni Kim Designs

2. Globe Drifting

3. Just Mad Stuff

4. Voices from the Margins

5. Ronnie’s Blog

6. kyangel17

7. Stephanie Eusebi Nutrition & Wellness

8. tripelonia

9. Արսեն Նազոյան

10. Sunset Boulevard

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