Birds In Hymns – With Songs and Honors Sounding Loud – Isaac Watts Praise the LORD! For it is good to sing praises to our God; For it is pleasant, and praise is beautiful. (Psalms 147:1 NKJV) Words – By Isaac Watts, The Psalms of David, 1719 Music – By Bedford, William Wheale, 1729 Alternate … Continue reading
Formed By Him – Music Making Birds
Do Birds Truly Make Music? (from Creation Moments) The flowers appear on the earth; the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land. (Song of Solomon 2:12) The Bible speaks of bird calls as songs, as most of us do. However, evolutionary theory has led some scientists … Continue reading
Formed By Him – Silver Birds
Silver is a metallic chemical element with the chemical symbol Ag (Latin: argentum, from the Indo-European root *arg- for “grey” or “shining”) and atomic number 47. A soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it has the highest electrical conductivity of any element and the highest thermal conductivity of any metal. Silver has long been valued as … Continue reading
Interesting Things – Dinosaur Blood
Dinosaur Blood by Creation Moments Job 40:15 “Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.” A short while ago, Creation Moments reported the case of blood cells being discovered in a fossilized T. rex bone. Today, we report on another case. While most fossil bones have lithified, or turned … Continue reading
Ian’s Bird of the Week – White-tailed Kite
Ian’s Bird of the Week – White-tailed Kite ~ by Ian Montgomery Newsletter ~ 1-06-11 It was only when I was recently preparing this photo for the website, that I noticed that this White-tailed Kite was carrying a small mammal, probably a mouse given the location and the length of the tail, so I thought … Continue reading
Birds of the Bible – Falcon – Caracara
The first Birds of the Bible – Falcons blog introduced the North American members of the Falcon – Falconidae Family. Then the next article, Birds of the Bible – Falcons II, introduced more of the 65 Falcon family members, mainly just the falcons, and provided links to videos of them. The Caracaras are a part … Continue reading
Macrocephalon Maleo – The Mute Missionary…
Macrocephalon Maleo – The Mute Missionary… ~ by a j mithra The Maleo, Macrocephalon maleo, is a medium-sized (approximately 55cm long) blackish megapode with bare yellow facial skin, reddish-brown iris, reddish-orange beak and rosy salmon underparts. The crown is ornamented with a black helmet casque. The greyish blue feet have four long sharp claws, separated … Continue reading
Raining Red-winged Blackbirds
Many have heard the news today about the many (4,000-5,000 at last count) Red-winged Blackbirds that they found in Arkansas. They fell from the sky on New Year’s Eve. “The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission spokesman Keith Stephens says the birds fell in an area about a mile long and a half-mile wide (1 1/2 … Continue reading
Ian’s Bird of the Week – Metallic Starling
Ian’s Bird of the Week – Metallic Starling ~ by Ian Montgomery Newsletter: 1-2-2011 Here’s a local bird to welcome in the New Year: the Metallic Starling. The Common Starling has given starlings a bad name by being feral (introduced) in many parts of the world including Australia, South Africa and North America and feral … Continue reading
2010 in review
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 130,000 times in 2010. If it were an exhibit at … Continue reading
Happy New Year – First Bird for 2011?
Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old. (Matthew 13:52 KJV) Happy 2011 to all of you. As we start the New Year, lets keep the old … Continue reading
Thank You – 200,000
During the wee hours this morning, the pages visited counter passed the 200,000 mark. I want thank all of our readers who have come to this blog. Hopefully you have found the information you have sought and maybe even found other articles of interest. The count was started when the blog was moved here to … Continue reading
