The birds in your backyard, to be more exact.
I hope to provide basic information about attracting birds to your yard and how to help make this a family activity with a little general birding news and fun added in.
I applied after receiving some information from the Gack Ink group I joined this month and was [...]
While categorizing my posts, I stumbled across a few old entries which I had forgotten about. Some of them, I thought, were pretty good, even if my readers did not seem to think so. None of them had generated very many comments and certainly were not responsible for any extra traffic on my [...]
What is a blog carnival? I started this post, and then realized there isn’t much point to reinventing the wheel, so to speak. I wrote a sort of introduction to blogging last summer for a friend that provides a summary. (Note, if you actually are looking to increase traffic, realize that I [...]
OK, promised rant. I shall address both sides, and I would really appreciate your comments, whether or not you agree with me. It began with a submission to last week’s Carnival of Homeschooling which was rejected on the basis of cursing in another entry:
This action was taken because HSB is a Christian blog [...]
I enjoy carnivals. It is interesting to read so many different opinions about a related topic. Most of them do not produce that much traffic, but I have had an occasional post gain some attention from a variety of blogs due to a submission to a carnival. Here are a couple you [...]
Update: My husband’s response to the notion of “dumbing down” my blog was too pithy not to share:
Yeah. You need to stop writing for 18th century farmers and start writing for 21st century college kids.
Update 2: Dharmesh Shah, the developer of Website Grader, was kind enough to stop by and tell me [...]
A few items of interest:
For those of you who love backyard birding as much as we do, here is a wonderful site which includes identification tips and an online bird guide. Also, check out Macaulay Library’s online collection of bird songs. In an event inspired by birders’ annual “Big Day“, researchers are [...]
What?! I am so glad I live in the US. For those of you who don’t know, Sandmonkey is an Egyptian blogger, blogging for what most of us take for granted: freedom.
One of the chief reasons is the fact that there has been too much heat around me lately. I no longer [...]
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