On Sunday, one of our congregational songs was: I Sing Th’ Almighty Power Of God by Isaac Watts. When we sang the second verse, I couldn’t help but think about the creation of the birds. What a great song, what a Great Creator!

“And the evening and the morning were the fourth day. And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.” (Genesis 1:19-25 KJV)

Mountain Goat at Mount Massive ©WikiC

We sing the mighty power of God
that made the mountains rise,
that spread the flowing seas abroad
and built the lofty skies.
We sing the wisdom that ordained
the sun to rule the day;
the moon shines full at his command,
and all the stars obey.

Mountain Bluebird (Sialia currucoides)

We sing the goodness of the Lord
that filled the earth with food;
he formed the creatures with his word 
and then pronounced them good. 
Lord, how your wonders are displayed, 
where’er we turn our eyes, 
if we survey the ground we tread 
or gaze upon the skies. 

Landscape at Parrot Mountain

There’s not a plant or flower below
but makes your glories known,
and clouds arise and tempests blow
by order from your throne;
while all that borrows life from you
is ever in your care,
and everywhere that we can be,
you, God, are present there.

From the Psalter Hymnal, 1987

Mixed Flock Flyiing 122717 Merritt Is NWR by Lee

AMERICAN GOLDFINCH on thistle (Fredric D. Nisenholz / Birds & Blooms)

BUFFLEHEAD male (Wikipedia)

House Crow (Corvus splendens) by Nikhil Devasar

House Finch (Carpodacus mexicanus) (1) by Raymond Barlow

Glittering-bellied Emerald (Chlorostilbon lucidus) ©WikiC

Glistening-green Tanager (Chlorochrysa phoenicotis) Female ©BirdPhotos.com

Northern Pika (Ochotona hyperorea) ©WikiC 2017 Photo Winner

Friendly Fantail (Rhipidura albolimbata) ©Flickr Bernard Spragg

Red-Shouldered-Hawk Lucas Texas

Fire-breasted Flowerpecker (Dicaeum ignipectus) by Nikhil Devasar

Emerald Tanager (Tangara florida) ©WikiC

Eared Pitta (Hydrornis phayrei) ©WikiC

Eastern Grass Owl (Tyto longimembris) by Ian

AMERICAN TURKEYS Schuylkill Center for Envir’l Educ’n photo

Red Junglefowl (wild equivalent of domestic chicken) Frederic Pelsey photo

Spotted Thick-knee (Burhinus capensis) by Lee at Jax Zoo

Lanceolated Monklet (Micromonacha lanceolata) WikiC

WHINCHAT photo credit: Parrotletsuk.typepad.com

Double-banded Sandgrouse (Pterocles bicinctus) by kudu©©

Violet-) Crowned Woodnymph (Thalurania colombica) ©WikiC

Oriental Reed Warbler (Acrocephalus orientalis) ©WikiC

Little Penguin (Eudyptula minor) Family exiting burrow. ©WikiC

Cheer Pheasant (Catreus wallichii) ©WikiC

Bald Eagle landing ©CC0 Pixabay

Snowy Egret up close at Gatorland by Lee

Gator and Egret at Gatorland by Lee

Mountain Bluebird (Sialia currucoides) ©Elaine R Wilson WikiC

Rhinoceros Auklet (Cerorhinca monocerata) ©WikiC

Black-shouldered Kite (Elanus axillaris) by Ian

White-tailed Kite (Elanus leucurus) by Margaret Sloan

Yellow-crowned Bishop (Euplectes afer) ©WikiC

Unspotted Saw-whet Owl (Aegolius ridgwayi) ©Knut Eisermann – Macaulay Library

NORTHERN FLICKER (red-shafted form) photo credit: Evergreen State College

NORTHERN FLICKER (yellow-shafted form) photo credit: BioQuick News

Nazca Booby (Sula granti) by Ian

Light-mantled Albatross (Phoebetria palpebrata) ©WikiC

aempfer_s Woodpecker (Celeus obrieni) ©Flickr Claudlo Dlas Timm

Flame Robin (Petroica phoenicea) ©WikiC

Black Skimmer in Texas by Dan

Red-crested Turaco at Brevard Zoo by Lee

Mountain Bluebird (Sialia currucoides) ©Smediacache

Australasian Gannet (Morus serrator) by Ian

White-faced Ibis (Plegadis chihi) ©WikiC

James’s Flamingo (Phoenicoparrus jamesi) Mating Ritual ©WikiC