Ravin’ about Corvid Hybrids: Something to Crow About! Dr. James J. S. Johnson HOODED CROW (World Life Expectancy photo) “Every raven after his kind” (Leviticus 11:15) Who provides for the raven his food? When his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of food. (Job 38:41) Consider the ravens: for they neither sow … Continue reading
“Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south?” (Job 39:26 KJV) The next upper display case had Hawks and Owl specimen. The three Hawks give a size perspective of those hawks. The largest is the Red-Shouldered Hawk, then the Northern Harrier (female), and the Broad-Winged Hawk. “And the owl, … Continue reading
Just realized I didn’t post this. Again, it is a duplicate of a Waterman Bird Collection – Part II – Petrel & Crow article on the Birds of the Bible for Kids blog. [I am behind in blogging] This time it is about the Leach’s Storm Petrel and the Crow. As promised, in Waterman Bird Collection … Continue reading
Today’s Peanut’s cartoon reminds me of the birds we saw at the Jacksonville Zoo recently. It had rained before and it rained while we were visiting. “Poor Woodstock.. When he gets wet, he looks like an English Sheep-Bird!” [In case you can’t read it] “Who does great things, and unsearchable, Marvelous things without number. He … Continue reading
On the way to South Carolina we visited the Jacksonville Zoo. The birds were a bit damp as it had just rained. Here is one of the avian wonders that Dan captured with his camera. and for a long time birds and hedgehogs, and ibises and ravens shall dwell in it: and the measuring line of desolation … Continue reading
The next set of birds from the Waterman Bird Collection at BJU has five specimens. Four of these birds are found in or near water, but the Crow is not really known as a water bird. [This is a copy of the Waterman Bird Collection – Part II from Birds of the Bible for Kids] … Continue reading
In A Pleasant Surprise At The BJU Homecoming the Waterman Bird Collection, in the Science building, was introduced. This post will start introducing you to these wonderfully preserved specimens of birds that lived over a hundred years ago. At first, it bothered me about the use of birds in this manner, even though many museums have displays … Continue reading
Dan and I rode up to Greenville, South Carolina to attend the 2018 BJU Homecoming. We had two main events that we attended. When we parked quite a way from the place we were to be, I sort of grumbled because of the long walk with my walker [The campus is on hills]. Yet, the … Continue reading
This was shared on Facebook. I enjoy the beach and deer, but never saw one doing this. Seems to enjoy himself/herself. “As the deer pants for the water brooks, So my soul pants for You, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God; When shall I come and appear before God?” (Psalms 42:1-2 … Continue reading
YouTube Video by stonecabinphotos – “A Great Blue Heron spears and swallows a huge carp at Bosque del Apache NWR on 29 Oct 2013. The process took 11 minutes.” I have seen them do this, but never with a fish this large. Watched this Great Blue catch a catfish at Circle B Reserve, but it was … Continue reading
“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. And God made the beast of the earth according to its kind, cattle according to its kind, and everything that creeps on … Continue reading
Ian’s Bird of the Moment – Black-breasted Buzzard by Ian Montgomery You may remember in the last Bird of the Moment, in April I went to Cumberland Dam near Georgetown in Northern Queensland in the hope of photographing Red-browed Pardalotes but came away instead with photos of nesting Masked Finches. In May I set off … Continue reading
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