Long time readers of the blog will know that although the archive goes back to January 2008 the first couple of years entries were deleted. I actually set the blog up in 2006 and the first entry was on 14 April that year so the Pembrokeshire Birds blog is 20 years old today!
I’m really chuffed that in the age of Facebook, X and other social media that it continues to be well supported and provides a useful source of information for local and visiting birders. Over the 20 years there have been more than 24000 posts with, in recent times, over 1300 per year and, with over 6 million views logged, the blog continues to be popular.
That
it does continue to be popular is due in no small part to all the
regular bloggers past and present (some sadly no longer with us) whose
names are far too numerous to mention here but thank you all. Many
thanks also to the people who have helped with running the blog, in
particular Richard Dobbins who, with his vast knowledge of birds and the birding world, ran
the blog with me for many years. Also thanks to Brian Southern who
continues to help out with emails and to Mike Young-Powell who was
involved in running the blog for several years.
In
September 2020 I handed ownership and the running of the blog to the
Pembrokeshire Bird Group so finally a massive thanks to Rosemary Royle for managing it since then and dealing with the many emails of sightings
and queries which are sent in.
Here’s to many more years of Pembrokeshire Birds!