Liebster Award, thanks stellingsma2010!

My dear blogging friend stellingsma2010 of the blog hansstellingsma has been so kind to nominate Dear Kitty. Some blog for the Liebster Award.

Thank you so much for this kind gesture!

Rules for the Liebster Award:

Post 11 random facts about yourself.

Answer 11 questions asked by the person who nominated you.

Nominate 11 bloggers, the bloggers you award are to do the same.

Let them know you nominated them (by commenting on their blog etc.)

Eleven facts about myself:

1. Recently, I saw many beautiful birds near the Pyrenees in Spain. See here.

2. Where did most visits to my blog come from today so far?

Country	Views
United States	1,558
Jamaica	58
United Kingdom	37
Netherlands	24
Canada	9
France	9
Belgium	8
Australia	7
India	5
South Africa	5
Germany	4
Qatar	4
Italy	4

3. Where did most visits to my blog come from this month?

Top Views by Country for 30 days ending 2014-11-17 (Summarized)

Country	Views
United States	33,509
United Kingdom	1,972
Jamaica	681
Netherlands	589
Canada	481
Australia	430
Germany	406
France	336
India	269
Romania	165
Sweden	163
Italy	138
Spain	113
Ireland	111
Belgium	109
New Zealand	103
Belize	98
Greece	94
Switzerland	90
Brazil	88
Norway	85
Philippines	83
Indonesia	81
Turkey	78
South Africa	78
United Arab Emirates	77
Bahrain	71
Japan	68

4. Where did most visits to my blog come from this year?

Top Views by Country for 365 days ending 2014-11-17 (Summarized)

Country	Views
United States	149,141
United Kingdom	30,299
Jamaica	8,521
Netherlands	8,317
Canada	8,216
Australia	5,826
Germany	5,239
France	4,723
Sweden	4,636
India	3,803
Italy	1,899
Spain	1,881
Greece	1,775
South Africa	1,764
Romania	1,716
Belgium	1,709
Philippines	1,492
Bahrain	1,455
Ireland	1,423
New Zealand	1,408
Turkey	1,126
Indonesia	1,094
Norway	1,091
Saudi Arabia	1,026

5. Which blog posts or pages attracted most visits so far today?

Title		Views
Home page / Archives		197
Saudi princesses tortured for protesting regime’s anti-women policy		11
Will killer of Michael Brown be indicted?		11
British miners’ strike, new film		10
Rare squid beaches in Belgium		10
Turkish government deal with ISIS		10
Griffon and bearded vultures in Spain		8
Birds in Spain, last day		8
French ex-President Sarkozy’s homophobia		7
UAE princely hunters threaten Tanzanian people and wildlife		6

6. Which blog posts or pages attracted most visits this week?

2014-11-10 to Today

Title		Views
Home page / Archives		1,014
Turkish government deal with ISIS		77
Mormon founder Joseph Smith’s 40 wives		39
Old and new natural history books		39
Bahraini king’s sexual harassment of Lebanese singer		33
Most hated animals top 50		28
British homophobic religious fundamentalist TV’s financial scandal		27
About		27
USA: ancient Egyptian sarcophagus as corporate boss’ plaything		26
Dutch in Suriname, most cruel slave-masters		22
Dutch Islamophobic newspaper ‘news’ turns out to be lies		21
German anti war artist Käthe Kollwitz		21
Rare birds in North America update		20
Griffon and bearded vultures in Spain		19
Red-legged partridge and little owl near Spanish castle		19
Save walruses from Big Oil		18
Rubens, Rembrandt, differences in what they painted		18

7. Which blog posts or pages attracted most visits this month?

2014-10-18 to Today

Title		Views
Home page / Archives		4,325
Turkish government deal with ISIS		464
Most hated animals top 50		134
Rubens, Rembrandt, differences in what they painted		133
About		116
USA: ancient Egyptian sarcophagus as corporate boss’ plaything		112
Bahraini king’s sexual harassment of Lebanese singer		109
Will US soldier escape punishment for rape of Dutch girl?		108
German anti war artist Käthe Kollwitz		89
After 35 years, wounds of Vietnamese napalm girl Kim Phuc still hurt		75
Japanese forced prostitution survivors fight on		74
Dutch in Suriname, most cruel slave-masters		73
Dadabhai Naoroji not the first Indian to be elected to British parliament		73
New conservative Japanese minister in sex scandal		60
Vietnamese napalm girl Kim Phuc speaking for peace in Belgium		60

8. Which search terms brought most people to my blog this week?

2014-11-10 to Today

Search	Views
chinas problems about godwits china	5
rare birds of vietnaum	5
protest songs about racism	4
snowy owls	4
egyptian sarcophagus	3
dutch nature bridges	3
femmes hongroises	3
truth about michael browns death	2
cioppi pliocene whale	2

9. Which search terms brought most people to my blog this month?

2014-10-18 to Today

Search	Views
sarcophagus	14
egyptian sarcophagus	9
bijju	8
dear kitty some blog	8
isis torture	6
edible wild mushrooms of north america	6

10. On links to which sites did visitors to my blog click most this week?

2014-11-10 to Today

URL	Clicks
en.wikipedia.org	42
WordPress.com Media	12
independent.co.uk	8
morningstaronline.co.uk	7
commondreams.org	5
wsws.org	4
lds.org	4
alternet.org	3

11. Most popular topics Dear Kitty. Some blog has written about this week:

Topic	Views
Human rights	580
Peace and war	525
Economic, social, trade union, etc.	487
Environment	477
UK	410
history	359
Crime	352
Birds	343

My answers to stellingsma2010’s questions:

1. What’s the best thing ever in your life?

My journey to the Antarctic.

2. If you could make 1 wish what would that be?

Stop all wars.

3. What is your favorite animal?

I have many favourites. Today, it may be the wallcreeper, maybe tomorrow another species.

4. What is your biggest blooper?

So many that I am not sure which one was biggest 🙂

5. What would you do with 1.000.000 in cash?

It depends on what currency 🙂

6. What is your favorite food?

Pineapple.

7. Name 1 blogger you would like to meet in person.

Riverbend of the Baghdad Burning blog.

8. Tell us a joke?

Man in restaurant: Waiter! There is a fly in my soup!

Waiter: Don’t worry, sir; there is a spider on the bread.

9. Which man or woman you think is the hottest?

Melina Mercouri, unfortunately no longer alive.

10. Name 1 country all people should have seen in life?

Suriname.

11. Who is your biggest enemy?

Propagandists for wars and oppression.

My eleven new questions for my nominees are:

1. Which country where you have never been to would you like to visit?

2. If you could travel on a spaceship, where in space would you like to go?

3. What is your favourite bird species?

4. What is your favourite mammal species?

5. What is your favourite plant species?

6. Who is your least favourite politician?

7. If you could go back in history, to which person would you like to talk?

8. If WordPress would stop, would you continue to blog elsewhere?

9. If yes to question 8, where would you blog then?

10. About which country which you visited do you have the best memories?

11. Do you play a musical instrument? If so, which one?

My eleven nominees:

1. Victoritza

2. A Teenage Girl’s Diary

3. Maria went to town

4. Nina Kaytel

5. Love, love, love postcards

6. laurnaguistepublicist

7. Low Wire

8. Lololomay’s Music/Art site

9. Dolgheri Marina

10. Black Women Stand Up

11. mathblogger101

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