Wild Westhampton

I posted the very first post of Wild Westhampton — The Deer in the Creek.

When I started, I didn’t expect much. Post a few pictures, tell a few stories, maybe get three readers to amuse on a regular basis. Mostly, I started to amuse myself, and to give myself an outlet that would challenge me to better my skills. I think, in that way, I have mostly been successful.

Here we are, one year later. We’re coming up on 500 posts, the magically numbered post probably occurring within the next two months. On the Beach wrote a post about this blog, and the Southampton Press even ran a story. Pretty darn cool.

I feel much stronger in making bird identifications (as well as butterflies and dragonflies) because I do a lot guide checking before making most of my ids for the posts here. I’m not always right. Often, I’m corrected, or I can’t find an id and ask for help. Running this blog has not only been a fun experience, but it has been an educational one as well.

Some folks follow links from other blogs to get here, while others are led here by Google and other search engines by keyword search. Some of the more popular searches are for Wildwood State Park & Cupsogue Beach (followed by “magical places”, “dining needles”, and “river monsters”). Some of the strangest things people seem to be searching for: “origami modular”, “deer standing in truck”, “eagle+goose”, “hermaphrodite genitalia”, “biggest deer still living in the world”, “starfish nose” and “dirty koala”. One person’s search for high tide times in Quogue led them here (I suggest here).

Just a housekeeping note… If you link to Wild Westhampton, please use wildwhb.com, not the WordPress version (the latter will still take you to wildwhb.com, but it will not look as tidy).