Mystery Blogger Award, thanks Dolly!

My dear blogging friend Dolly of the koolkosherkitchen blog has nominated Dear Kitty. Some blog for the Mystery Blogging Award.

Thank you for this kind gesture! It is a new award for me.

Thank you, Okoto Enigma, for creating this award!

The rules of this award are:

Display the award logo/image on your blog

List the rules

Thank the blogger who nominated you and provide a link to the nominator’s blog

Mention the creator of the award and provide a link as well

Tell your readers 3 things about yourself

Answer 5 questions from the nominator

Nominate 10 -20 bloggers

Three things about myself:

1. I heard ring-necked parakeets and a wood pigeon outside my window today.

2. Which of my blog posts and pages attracted most visits today so far?

Title		Views
Home page / Archives		26
African penguin news on World Oceans Day		12
Bearded vulture on Texel island		11
Gay animal sex		11
Donald Trump, a Scottish poem		9
British violent racists use London Bridge atrocity as pretext		8
‘Oldest human fossils discovered in Morocco’		8
Trump administration threatens American sage grouse		7
British artists about why they vote Labour		5
Butterflies, damselflies, abandoned church in Italy		5

3. Which of my blog posts and pages attracted most visits this year?

Top Posts for 365 days ending 2017-06-08 (Summarized)

Title		Views
Home page / Archives		11,368
Massive animal abuse in Belgian corporate slaughterhouse		2,324
Gay animal sex		1,539
Rubens, Rembrandt, differences in what they painted		1,165
Bahraini king’s sexual harassment of Lebanese singer		561
Anti-Trump demonstration Amsterdam tomorrow, Dam to Museumplein		469
United States Ku Klux Klan propaganda		466
About		452
After Iraq, will Bush destroy archaeological treasures of Iran?		450
Dutch anti-Trump demonstration, 20 January, Amsterdam		444
Dutch in Suriname, most cruel slave-masters		399
Colonia Dignidad, Pinochet’s nazi cult torture camp, on film		383
United States ‘War on Poverty’ during the Vietnam war		383
British Museum’s Reading Room, what will happen?		381
Dadabhai Naoroji not the first Indian to be elected to British parliament		355
Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and Thomas Paine		348
Che Guevara’s favourite poems discovered		343
Women’s march against Trump, Amsterdam 21 January		342
Helen Keller photo rediscovered after 120 years		332
Crowned sandgrouse, lanner falcon, more birds, video		325
Most hated animals top 50		322
How Spain’s Franco dictatorship censored music		317
UK: Blairites: We are Thatcherites (not Labourites)		315

Dolly’s five questions, and my answers, are:

1. Would you rather it was always winter, or always summer? Neither. All seasons have their special attractions. Eg, in winter there are birds unique to winter. In summer, birds unique to summer; etc.

2. Which global event marked 2016 for you? Election of Donald Trump as president of the USA; and the resistance to him.

3. Do you prefer e-mails or telephone calls? E-mails; as phone calls tend to come at crucial moments of cooking, etc.

4. What is your first thought when you wake up in the morning? Is it sunny or cloudy?

5. What is your comfort food? Pineapple.

Five questions for my nominees:

1. What is your favourite bird?

2. What is your favourite mammal?

3. What is your favourite fish?

4. What is your favourite insect?

5. What is your favourite plant?

My nominees are:

1. A Tepid Wary

2. It Is What It Is

3. Առլեն Շահվերդյան. հեղինակային բլոգ-կայք

4. ABC of Spirit Talk with Carolyn Page

5. CIGUDEG pleis bilong tu mi

6. Manolis

7. paintdigi

8. Isolated girl

9. Erika Kind

10. Paris: People, Places and Bling

11. We Hold These Truths To Be Self-Evident

12. Tish Farrell

13. idealisticrebel