10 November 2024
It’s time to rejoice and I virtually missed it! Fortuitously the crows jogged my memory that …

Seventeen years in the past yesterday, 9 November 2007, I printed the primary weblog put up of my running a blog “profession.”
As of this morning I’ve written 6,282 articles however not all of them are winners. On the weblog’s anniversary I search for the most well-liked articles within the final 12 months.
One Day Wonders: These Prime 5 posts induced the largest single day surge in viewers. Click on the hyperlinks if you happen to haven’t learn them.
- What Occurs When a Dam is Eliminated? Locks and Dam #3 had been about to be faraway from the Monongahela River at Elizabeth. What would occur? (3 July; 7,265 readers)
- Roost Rings on Radar Watch increasing rings on radar when hundreds of purple martins depart their roosts unexpectedly. (16 July; 3,446 readers)
- Black Walnuts Amazingly widespread as a result of it consists of photograph and video of FLORY machines sweeping and vacuuming walnut orchards. (23 Nov final 12 months; 3,121 readers)
- Appalachia’s Mango Ripens Subsequent Month Pawpaws are widespread! (27 Aug; 2,214 readers)
- Rising From the Deep An outdated bridge and city emerge as Youghiogheny River Lake drops in drought. (23 Nov; 1,860 readers)
Outdated Faithfuls: Which articles steadily collect essentially the most consideration? Two articles had greater than 12,000 viewers up to now 12 months.
I believe some (perhaps most?) individuals trying to find this title had been disillusioned to seek out it’s not a few human invasion. It’s about noticed lanternflies.
This text was a joke in regards to the resemblance of the Devils Tower to a big petrified tree stump. I’m shocked that viewers are nonetheless drawn in 12 months after 12 months.
Each day readership hums alongside at 700-800 readers (YOU!) and soars to a brand new document of seven,200 viewers in sudden methods.
Thanks, my readers, on your enthusiasm. I couldn’t have blogged on daily basis for 17 years with out you. And an enormous thanks to all of the photographers who let me use your pictures. I’ve made plenty of new mates.
Completely satisfied Fowl-thday, Outdoors My Window!

p.s. That is my weblog’s birthday, not my birthday. I’m a heck-uv-a lot older than 17!