{"id":132788,"date":"2023-03-23T06:05:39","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T12:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=132788"},"modified":"2023-03-23T07:04:17","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T13:04:17","slug":"feathered-photographys-most-popular-posts-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/23\/feathered-photographys-most-popular-posts-of-all-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Feathered Photography&#8217;s Most Popular Posts Of All Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;m (we&#8217;re) waiting for better shooting weather so I can get out in the field again I thought this would be a good time to address some questions I get from readers occasionally that I&#8217;ve never adequately responded to.<\/p>\n<p>Those questions are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>How long have you been blogging?<\/em> I published my first post on August 18, 2010.<\/li>\n<li><em>How many posts have you published?<\/em> In the 4,400 days since my first post I&#8217;ve published 3,953 blog posts. In the first few months I only published sporadically.<\/li>\n<li><em>What have been your most popular posts? <\/em>I&#8217;ll define &#8220;most popular&#8221; as those posts that have had the most views. The top five are listed in order below, with links to those posts and the number of views they&#8217;ve had since the date they were published.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/27\/a-guide-to-aging-bald-eagles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Guide to Aging Bald Eagles<\/a><\/span><\/span> &#8211; (126, 636 views, published 1-27-2013). Much of the popularity of this post is a result of various birding sites and eagle webcam sites linking to it over the years. Many of my current blog followers found Feathered Photography through this post.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/22\/a-guide-to-aging-bald-eagles-and-how-to-distinguish-immature-bald-eagles-from-golden-eagles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Guide to Aging Bald Eagles and How To Distinguish Immature Bald Eagles From Golden Eagles<\/a><\/span><\/span> &#8211; (52,204 views, published 11-22-2017). An update to and extension of the previous post, so parts of the two posts are similar.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/05\/long-tailed-weasel-efficient-hunter-and-cannibal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Long-tailed Weasel &#8211; Efficient Hunter and Cannibal<\/a><\/span><\/span> &#8211; (34, 731 views, published 3-5-2011)<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/02\/barn-owls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Barn Owls In Flight<\/a><\/span><\/span> &#8211; (26,737 views, published 11-2-2010)<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/31\/capitalization-of-bird-common-names\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Capitalization of Bird Common Names<\/a><\/span><\/span> &#8211; (21,499 views, published 1-31-2018). I was surprised by the response to this post. Apparently lots of folks have pretty strong opinions about capitalization of bird names.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll close by answering a fourth question I get occasionally that I&#8217;ve never responded to because I can only guess at the answer. That question is: <em>What has been your most popular photo over the years?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My best guess would be&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"41247\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/04\/anatomy-of-a-magpie-nest\/black-billed-magpie-6445b-ron-dudley\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/black-billed-magpie-6445b-ron-dudley.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,635\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;RON DUDLEY&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 7D&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1268329796&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;500&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0005&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"black-billed magpie 6445b ron dudley\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/black-billed-magpie-6445b-ron-dudley.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-41247 size-full\" title=\"black-billed-magpie-6445b-ron-dudley\" src=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/black-billed-magpie-6445b-ron-dudley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/black-billed-magpie-6445b-ron-dudley.jpg 900w, https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/black-billed-magpie-6445b-ron-dudley-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/black-billed-magpie-6445b-ron-dudley-768x542.jpg 768w, https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/black-billed-magpie-6445b-ron-dudley-150x106.jpg 150w, https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/black-billed-magpie-6445b-ron-dudley-400x282.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>this one. You&#8217;ve seen it before but I think it answers the question. Several others come in a close second.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any influence over the weather, please arrange for some clear skies and better light for northern Utah sometime soon. Cabin fever has me clawing at the walls.<\/p>\n<p>Ron<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;m (we&#8217;re) waiting for better shooting weather so I can get out in the field again I thought this would be a good time to address some questions I get from readers occasionally that I&#8217;ve never adequately responded to.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/23\/feathered-photographys-most-popular-posts-of-all-time\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[334],"tags":[43,45,3842,153,209,6823],"class_list":["post-132788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-birds","tag-bald-eagle","tag-barn-owl","tag-capitalization-of-bird-common-names","tag-golden-eagle","tag-long-tailed-weasel","tag-most-popular-blog-posts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/black-billed-magpie-6445b-ron-dudley.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1zzJh-yxK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132788"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132827,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132788\/revisions\/132827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}