Five million.
16th February 2026
No, not my current account balance!
Overnight this website, with has ostensibly a narrow subject matter, (basically documenting my personal birding and photography efforts) received its 5000000th view. I never in my wildest expectations thought that a number of this magnitude would be achieved. I obviously must be doing something right LOL, and although, in all seriousness, it's far from easy maintaining people's interest in a website of this nature, excuse the pun.
It's far easier to post on a social media platform which covers the general area where you operate because your photographs are viewed almost by default when people are looking at the general area's wildlife posts. That's not detracting from the quality of peoples images, it's just pure logic.
This is not just a case of posting sightings from your local area, that's easy, even the mundane repetition is seen as acceptable! There are a few people 'I know locally' who think that way, and sniff at someone as just a photographer.
I'd like to invite some of them to have a try at something like this and see how far they get!
There are two main areas of difficulty;
One is getting the images to back your dialogue up. "A picture paints a thousand words!" as the saying goes. Of most relevancy is that you can't rely on other people's images to illustrate your writings!!
The second is attempting to write a blog post in an entertaining style that carries the reader along with you during your efforts to photograph these birds. It's no good just attaching a 'One Liner' to a photograph, that doesn't work. It appears that I have intermittent success in this area - based on viewers comments!
To finish, I'd like to thank the people who regularly look at this website and especially for the very kind comments I receive - it matters.
I intend to carry on for as long as I can hold a camera and lens, and look forward to spring arriving with plenty of nice birds.
Many thanks,
Steve
Overnight this website, with has ostensibly a narrow subject matter, (basically documenting my personal birding and photography efforts) received its 5000000th view. I never in my wildest expectations thought that a number of this magnitude would be achieved. I obviously must be doing something right LOL, and although, in all seriousness, it's far from easy maintaining people's interest in a website of this nature, excuse the pun.
It's far easier to post on a social media platform which covers the general area where you operate because your photographs are viewed almost by default when people are looking at the general area's wildlife posts. That's not detracting from the quality of peoples images, it's just pure logic.
This is not just a case of posting sightings from your local area, that's easy, even the mundane repetition is seen as acceptable! There are a few people 'I know locally' who think that way, and sniff at someone as just a photographer.
I'd like to invite some of them to have a try at something like this and see how far they get!
There are two main areas of difficulty;
One is getting the images to back your dialogue up. "A picture paints a thousand words!" as the saying goes. Of most relevancy is that you can't rely on other people's images to illustrate your writings!!
The second is attempting to write a blog post in an entertaining style that carries the reader along with you during your efforts to photograph these birds. It's no good just attaching a 'One Liner' to a photograph, that doesn't work. It appears that I have intermittent success in this area - based on viewers comments!
To finish, I'd like to thank the people who regularly look at this website and especially for the very kind comments I receive - it matters.
I intend to carry on for as long as I can hold a camera and lens, and look forward to spring arriving with plenty of nice birds.
Many thanks,
Steve