Ian’s Bird of the Week – Coal Tit

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  Ian’s Bird of the Week – Coal Tit ~ Ian Montgomery Newsletter ~ 3/17/14 Here is a St Patrick’s Day special: one of only four avian species that are deemed to have Irish races, the Coal Tit. The Irish race, Parus ater hibernicus, has yellower cheeks and underparts and more cinammon flanks than its … Continue reading →

Sunday Inspiration – Great Egrets in Breeding Plumage

Sunday Inspiration – Great Egrets in Breeding Plumage

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Go out of the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons’ wives with you. Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you: birds and cattle and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, so that they may abound on the earth, and be fruitful … Continue reading →

Ian’s Bird of the Week – Red-capped Parrot

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Ian’s Bird of the Week – Red-capped Parrot ~ by Ian Montgomery Newsletter ~ 3/15/14 I’ve had a request for a Western Australian endemic from an American friend who is visiting WA this coming September. So here, Laurie, is the Red-capped Parrot which you should see there. The first photo shows a male of this … Continue reading →

Tricolored Herons at Gatorland

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the stork, the heron after its kind, the hoopoe…. (Leviticus 11:19 NKJV) Here is the next beautifully created bird seen on our trip to Gatorland this week. See the other articles listed below. Today, I want to share the Tricolored Herons (Egretta tricolor) which were in their breeding plumage busy courting and building nest. “During breeding … Continue reading →

Gatorland’s Snowy Egrets

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Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you: birds and cattle and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, so that they may abound on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth. (Genesis 8:17 NKJV) In yesterday’s blog, I told about the alligators at Gatorland. Today, … Continue reading →

Gatorland – March 2014 ~ I

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Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, each according to its kind”; and it was so. (Genesis 1:24 NKJV) Today we drove over to Gatorland in Orlando. We had heard that the “rookery” was hopping with birds making … Continue reading →

Ian’s Bird of the Week – Black-fronted Tern

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Ian’s Bird of the Week – Black-fronted Tern ~ by Ian Montgomery Newsletter ~ 3/10-14 To mark the 500th bird of the week, here is a rather special tern from New Zealand, the Black-fronted Tern, which I photographed while on the quest for the very special Black Stilt. The tern is special, as it’s a … Continue reading →

Sunday Inspiration – Thrushes

Sunday Inspiration – Thrushes

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Even the stork in the sky Knows her seasons; And the turtledove and the swift and the thrush Observe the time of their migration; But My people do not know The ordinance of the LORD. (Jeremiah 8:7 NASB) Sunday Inspiration – Thrushes This week we get to see the Lord’s creation in the Turdidae – Thrushes Family. The Muscicapidae Family also … Continue reading →

Small Fire Department Rescues Birds

Small Fire Department Rescues Birds

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SMALL FIRE DEPARTMENT RESCUES BIRDS     “We’ll have our hose ready.” “The salamanders,” said daddy, “are little creatures very much like lizards in looks, except their skin is not scaly as a lizard’s. They have four legs and a tail, and are very nice, kind and gentle. “Well, these salamanders agreed that they would … Continue reading →