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Natureblog Network
There is hardly a nature blogger who is not checking out their statistics on Nature Blog Network.
Yes, I adm¡t it! I am also following how my blog is doing compared to other birding blogs. This can be done selecting only birding blogs. I have reached 11 at the highest - and right now at a modest 21. Sometimes I am checking out the statistics so much that I forget to write blogposts!. Today is obviously not such a day.
The blog of the blogs!
What most bloggers perhaps don't follow as closely is the excellent blog that Nature Blog Network provides. Their blog ought to be listed in the blogging statistics of the site, so there is no chance of missing it.
In a recent posting they summerize some Nature Blogs in South America and I am happy to see that my blog is mentioned and recommended. (Less happy that my name is misspelt - but that is alright - you should just see what they have done to my last name Engblom in this country! Spanish speaking people have a hard time to tackle more than two consonants in a row - and when they do they need to put a wovel before everything i.e Speak eSPANISH. Engblom has four consonants in a row and that is asking for trouble, Many times it comes out Em-blong! Poor Luciana Engblom 2 years old! Maybe I should change my name translating it to its Spanish meaning - Flor de la Pradera? Update: My name has been corrected now. Thanks Nate!).
More South America Nature Blogs
Ooops, I think I lost my thread there for a while and got distracted. Anyway, check out the above link for some suggestions. I should mention two other excellent birding blogs from Peru and a blog ifrom Brazil that I also follow closely that are not mentioned on the site.
- Teach me birdwatching by Melissa Gold-Perez. Great read of someone from starters is becoming a birdwatcher in Peru. Check for instance her recent birding visit to Ventanilla.
- Birds in Peru by Norwegian Tor Egil Høgsås. Check his photos on for example the lovely hummingbird Peruvian Sheertail.
- Rick Simpson in Brazil who helped us out during our last SE Brazil trip has an excellent blog on his web-site. His recent blogpost has some info on splits. We got three of four, had not my group been so rushed we should have gotten the Red-eyed Thornbird also at Biritiba-Mirim.
Featured Bloggers
Nature Blog Network Blog also had the good taste to allow me as guest blogger recently in a post called "Facebook for birders".
Nature blog Network Blog has done some excellent interviews of other bloggers in their Featured Blogs every Monday since November last year. This is a good source to learn about how more experienced bloggers go about their blogging. I just discovered this feature and have enjoyed the interviews with Julie Zickefoose and Beverly Robertson's Behind the bins.
PS: I am experimenting with pings and trackbacks on this post, so a teaser-comment from this post shows in the comment sections to particular posts I am metioning above. Let me know if they don't show.
Gunnar
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Oops. Sorry bout the misspelling. I'll set that right.
Thanks, Gunnar! You should be one of our featured blogs some Monday!
Checking your statistics on Nature Blog Network is so 2008!!! Now its about reading the great content that Wren and John and others post here.
LOL, TR - this may be the first time in my life I was more "this year" than "so last year"
TR, mind you I just stated blogging last december seriously with a WP theme, and entered NBN in January. It took me 3 months to find the great other stuff on the site.
BTW. Ping worked fine to the NBN with a quote, while to Blogger accounts such as Mel... Read More´s there is only a link to the my blogpost - not quote and to Tor Egil´s there is nothing. I guess that tech savvy Mel has enabled linkback in her Blogger account and that Tor Egil hasn't. Tomorrow's blog is about link-back and trackback. Been in prep for a week now! Stay put.
BTW. How do you go about to send your avatar in the comments. I bet I also get a blank face just as TR, while Nate and Wren has nice little pics. I bet there is some setting in WP to do? Or>
Nate: Thanks. No problem. I am quite used to it!
Wren: Would bwe flattered to be featured. But let me lurk and learn some more. There are still million things about blogging I don't master.
I am about to start a carnaval - I think. It is sort of a continuation of my post on How to become a birdwatcher in the 21st century and Nature blogging for beginners. This carnival will be for young birder bloggers only up to 22 years. I started birding when I was 22, but had the interest for nature since I was 5. If I'd be 10 today with the same interest for nature as then and had a point and shoot camera I'd be nature blogging in a year or so - for sure! But maybe there is already such Carnival up and running?
congrats on your standing on the nature network..i hope that you keep rising to the top...I havent added my blog to the network ...not sure what category it would be..
Keep bloggin.
Hola Gunnar,
Thanks gor your mention of my blog. I'm glad that my first La Arenilla trip was with you, I learned quite a bit, thanks!
Hope to see you soon!
Take care,
Mel
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