One Lovely Blog Award

My dear blogging friend betternotbroken was so kind to nominate my blog for the One Lovely Blog Award.

Thanks so much!

The rules of the One Lovely Blog Award are:

Give credit to the awesome person who nominated you,
Describe seven things about yourself,
Nominate 15 other bloggers [presumably, linking to them, and telling them about it at their blogs].

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My list of seven things about me:

1. This morning, the sun shines outside after rain yesterday.

2. Which blog posts or pages attracted most visits to my blog today so far?

Title		Views
Home page / Archives		54
Hunch-backed dolphins off Bahrain		6
August 2014, most visits ever to my blog		5
Bird book exhibition in The Hague, the Netherlands		5
Young Sandwich terns with rings seen again		4
500,000 visits milestone on this blog, thanks!		3
Marzipan seals		3
British government accused of helping monarchist torturers in Nepal		3
English birds news update		3
Bahrain arrest of human rights activist, oppression of workers		3

3. Which blog posts or pages attracted most visits to my blog this week?

2014-08-25 to Today

Title		Views
Home page / Archives		937
Bahraini king’s sexual harassment of Lebanese singer		46
Ancient Phoenician ship discovered near Malta		40
Saudi woman gets 150 whip lashes for driving		31
Orphaned hippo Douglas is back in te wild		30
United Nations condemn U.S. police brutality		28
Dutch in Suriname, most cruel slave-masters		27
Poisonous caterpillars infest Spurn Point in England		22
Greenbelt Christian festival in Britain		20
ISIS torture based on Guantanamo torture		20
British actor Richard Attenborough helped honour Nelson Mandela		18
About		16
Japanese forced prostitution women’s stories		16
Sandhurst, British academy for Arabian princely military dictators		15
Christine Lagarde, IMF boss, in Sarkozy financial scandal		15

4. Where did visits to my blog come from mostly today so far?

Country	Views
United States	192
Jamaica	26
United Kingdom	23
Sweden	16
Netherlands	5
Australia	5
Republic of Korea	4
India	4
France	3
Japan	3
Italy	2
Indonesia	2
Germany	2

5. Where did visits to my blog come from mostly this month?

Country	Views
United States	18,896
United Kingdom	2,182
Netherlands	795
Jamaica	662
Sweden	600
Germany	391
Canada	374
Australia	373
France	275
India	214
Romania	178
Philippines	154
Belgium	136
South Africa	125
Italy	100
Indonesia	97
New Zealand	96
Greece	95
Bahrain	90
Russian Federation	90
Norway	86
Switzerland	75
Japan	75
Saudi Arabia	72
Ireland	70
Turkey	69
Poland	57
Thailand	57
Singapore	56
Spain	56
United Arab Emirates	56
Israel	52
Pakistan	51
Egypt	51
Brazil	50

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

Search	Views
whipping women	12
protests in ukraine against military conscription	10
most hated animal in the world	9
elm guest house kitty	9
poisonous caterpillars	7
i am mike brown	6
michael brown rap song	6
lurgan shooting of eugene mc guigan	5
who is isis and what have they been recently doing that caused the u.s. to renew a bombing campaign in iraq?	4
isis made in usa	4
bijju animal	4
famous dutch painters	4

7. Which Internet search terms brought most visits to my blog, ever since the blog moved to WordPress in December 2011?

Search	Views
iguana	433
watergate scandal	386
prostitution in bahrain	366
poisonous caterpillars	275
egyptian sarcophagus	264
atsinganosaurus velauciensis	257
napalm girl	249
iraq war	208
long tailed tit	197
cercopithecus lomamiensis	189

My fifteen nominees are:

1. The Mind of Micheline

2. Juliana Mare

3. The Liberated Way

4. Nimmu’s

5. ~HeartTricks~

6. European Seabirds Blog

7. dou dou birds

8. Dianne Gray author

9. IRES: Behavioral ecology of red-backed fairy-wrens

10. Insidethelifeofmoi

11. Un café con dos de azúcar

12. P0vestiare

13. sandrafirstruleoffilmclubharris

14. Lazy Island Sundays

15. rockyourworld

george-b was so kind to give me the One Lovely Blog Award.

Thanks so much! This is my second time for that award.

george-b has a very interesting blog, he writes about many varied subjects (a bit similar to my blog in that respect 🙂 🙂 . Those subjects include animals, music, history and many others.

The rules of the One Lovely Blog Award are:

Give credit to the awesome person who nominated you,
Describe seven things about yourself,
Nominate 15 other bloggers [presumably, linking to them].

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My list of seven things about me:

1. When I was in my teens, I was in a table tennis club.

2. I was in football clubs as well.

3. I was in an athletics club (best parts: 1500 meter running and long jump).

4. At a classmate’s house, I watched aquariums and terrariums.

5. Today, I was at the cemetery. I heard a nuthatch, but not so many birds today. More dragonflies than usually, a speckled wood butterfly sitting on a leaf, and mushrooms.

6. My knee is still slowly recovering after I fell during the Rembrandt celebration.

7. The birds are coming back to the balcony, now that the house shaped feeder has been repaired.

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And now I would like to nominate the following 15 bloggers for this Award. Please note that I understand completely if you choose not to participate. As the saying goes; ‘No strings attached’!

So here are my 15 nominations:

1. InteriorStockholm

2. Trésors De Luxe

3. Love to God

4. Mirrored Images Photography

5. Cristian Mihai

6. jhasmoments

7. European Scientist and Journalist

8. Sharmishtha Basu’s poetries

9. Colddeadheart’s Blog

10. The Trail

11. Lord Brummell