Aurora borealis: 15 minutes of fame in Bird Watching magazine

May 31, 2005

15 minutes of fame in Bird Watching magazine

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Well, normal service is resumed for now. Though hopefully I'll be able to persuade Sean to let me showcase some more of his photography (this is a nice way of saying hopefully he'll make my blog that bit more colourful and high-class with his excellent photos...)

Still, it's all very promising here just at the moment. The northerly wind has died off, and Metcheck (see the Weather Starling below for a link) has us down for easterlies backing south-east by the weekend. Whoo-hoo! I've got to do some breeding wader surveys for FWAG over the weekend, so if there's any justice they'll coincide with my stumbling across something decent.

Plus, fame for this blog at last! Okay, not exactly on a Belle de Jour scale, but fame nonetheless. Wait for it... Bird Watching magazine! There's an article in the June issue on the subject of birding blogs, which rather sweetly includes Aurora Borealis in a list of "Top Birding Blogs". With a subtitle that infers it's inspirational, I'm hugely flattered. (And somewhat flustered - there's probably some colourful views and sentiments expressed in here which might not be too palatable to some Bird Watching readers. Oh well, no time to censor it...)

To be fair, I had a little advance warning of this happy event when the author Katie Fuller mentioned it to me in correspondence. (Katie Fuller of the excellent Bogbumper blog linked below). I'm sure Bird Watching won't mind me blithely reproducing the fragment of the article where Aurora Borealis is mentioned... after all, they never asked me if they could reproduce any of the pages of the blog... in retrospect, of course they're welcome. And I hope Bird Watching's readership enjoy Aurora Borealis, now officially "an interesting perspective on birds from someone much further north than most of us"!