This is the 2000th blog here. It’s been fun, and we’ve hardly got started yet! Here are a few personal highlights from the first 2000: First blog – nothing very special here, I admit. First Guest Blog – by Reservoir Cats’s Mr White – still makes me laugh I got a bear! – IM(H)O, one…
Category: This blog and its milestones
Your reading
Results from the readers’ poll:
The growth of the readership of this blog
2012: 50,867 unique readers 2013: 71,658 unique readers 2014: 135,053 unique readers …and you are all very welcome.
Your feedback on this blog
Here is a selection (every 10th comment, listed chronologically (earliest at top of list)) of the free-text comments in answer to ‘Your opportunity to give feedback of any kind on my blog or anything else you like’. Excellent, well informed. Always very interesting and refreshing to read what needs to be said unencumbered by…
Last chance…
Comments Off on Last chance…
…to have a go at this little ornithological brain twister. Entries close at midday. A copy of A Sparrowhawk’s Lament to the winning entry.
This blog – 2 landmarks (of a sort)
The first post on this blog was on 21 April 2011, a few days before I left the RSPB. Today saw the 1500th blog post here, and, by chance, the 20,000th comment on that blog too. Early on, I told you what this blog would do, and I’m glad to see that I have held…
This blog has Klout
June was quite a busy month for this blog what with all that stuff about Hen Harriers and grouse moors and the ever-growing number of signatures on this e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting in England. However, it was the two blogs about Simon Barnes’s imminent departure from The Times that caused the biggest stir…
Readers’ survey – the politics of it all.
Four out of five respondents to the readers’ survey said that they would vote Labour rather than Conservative if the general election took place tomorrow. Don’t worry – it isn’t happening tomorrow. [Click here, here and here for other results from this survey] There were over 600 of you who I will describe as ‘Labour’…
Who you are? First results of readers’ survey
Here are the first results from the survey of readers (carried out between Saturday and Thursday). I closed the survey at 854 responses as that was twice the number of respondents when the same questions were asked in December 2012 (and was arrived at in a shorter period of time). Last month (January 2014) this…
Likes and dislikes, adverts etc
I added ‘like’ and ‘dislike’ buttons to this site a few months ago. They appear on every page, every blog post and every comment. I added them to the site because a few people asked for them, and they are often found on websites like mine. It’s entirely up to you if you use them…