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Revelation 4:11
"You are worthy, Jehovah, even our God, to receive the glory
and the honor and the power, because you created all things,
and because of your Will they existed and were created."
By the Grace of God....it's so wonderful to be alive!!

WONDERFUL!!!!

Thank you so much for sharing that with us ...

Luv BR

The Creator's master navigator!



The picture is of a seabird called the Arctic Tern.  It was taken by my friend, Tristan when we were on a trip to the coast of Northumberland.

The Arctic Tern is a stupendous traveller. Breeding in the northern latitudes up to the Arctic it migrates every fall to the Southern Ocean to spend our winter in the southern hemisphere near Antarctica. They then migrate back again and are in the northern hemisphere again in our spring.  They are quite long-lived and in a possible thirty year lifetime one of these birds may have travelled the distance to the moon and back.

How does it do it without a map, chronometer, sextant, compass?

No one really knows.

Then sings my soul my Saviour God to thee, How Great thou Art.
Peace and well being may be yours
Derek

PS.
Here is a closer picture I took of an Arctic Tern in Northumberland. This was one of my first attempts at using an ordinary digital camera connected to my birding scope with a modification utilising a small section of shed drainpipe!

This is a Painted Lady, a migrant butterfly to the UK. This tiny creature, at the mercy of the winds, migrates many hundreds of miles when it reaches our shores.
I took this picture a couple of summers ago when there was a large influx of these gems from the continent of Europe.

Beautiful Butterfly Derek!

Check these out....(wink)

WOW I didn't know their were any that looked like that..

Hi RosesinBloom,
Those Funnypics of yours are quite stimulating in a way. I can see a poem in each of them regarding the wonderful web of life on this planet of ours.

Thanks again sister
Warm Christian love
Derek

Hi all,
The moon is shining very bright tonight and it looks as though we will have a sharp frost here in the North of England which will make a change for us this very mild winter.  (Living in the north England on the latitude of central Labrador we have a very mild climate due to the Gulf Stream.)

I took this photo tonight using a coolpix camera attached to my birding scope.  (This gives c.80x)



The size of the moon relative to the size of the Sun is a great wonder, bringing about solar eclipses because the 'diameter viewing angle' of both bodies from Earth is almost exactly the same due to their relative size and distance.

Why can we refute the claims of some that the darkness as Jesus death was not a solar eclipse?
Well, it was far too long and also impossible!  On the 14th day of Nisan it was a FULL moon...Solar eclipses can only occur near the new moon, when the moon is between the earth and the sun.


I wish you all a peaceful night under the one moon for us all
Derek

Hi There Brother Derek!
I really enjoy the beautiful pictures.
There is sooo much joy in our lives, isn't there!
We truly have much to be thankful for!
Psalms 19:1
"The heavens are declaring the glory of God;
And of the work of His hands
the expanse is telling"

I was just looking at the same moon tonight, here in Dixie,
while I was out with our dog.
Christian Love

PS  
"When the moon hits your eye, like a big pizza pie...
that's amore.
Thankyou Almighty God Jehovah for the moon!
And thankyou Dean Martin for the song! ;
And thankyou Brother Derek for the picture!

Hi CR,
I am really pleased you enjoyed the pictures. I shall be posting more when I get time sister.

Without the moon affecting the tides we would not have the variety of life on earth we have.

The intertidal mud flats around the world are the most productive areas of the planet for biomass...even more productive than tropical rain forests.   Such areas feed vast flocks of shorebirds, ducks and geese.  The intertidal areas also are the nurseries for many fish species.

Truly out Creator has stocked a wonderful larder for the creatures of earth..including ourselves.

These areas are only made possible by the moon being just the right distance from the earth.

Christ peace to you all
Derek

Hey everybody

I don't have a picture right now, but I'm going to dig out my pictures of Giant Silk Moths, so tame that they would sit on our hands and follow us into our house on our pantlegs.

What I would like to share today is an amazing animal behavior that just came to my notice a couple of days ago while doing a search on feeding Starlings. This behavior is a testimony to our God's wisdom and kindness and I can hardly wait to witness it for myself. Now that I'm feeding a large flock of these birds there is hope that they will return the favour in the Spring and clean up the pesky grubs that infest our lawn and garden.

....sorta like "underarm deodor-Ant"....or is that "underwing" ..hehehe.

Love, Rez

More on "anting"
anting

Hi Rez,
Yes, quite a lot of bird species ant.
One wonders how they learnt the practice..perhaps it is instinctive? (God given) I have seen European Blackbirds (your Robin family), Wrens (winter Wren) and Woodpeckers etc., all anting to get rid of parasites.
Peace and well being to you Rez.
Your brother in Christ
Derek

Hi all,

If any of you are interested in wildlife, a young naturalist friend of mine, who I sometimes go birding with, has just got his new web site up and running. It is impressive.

They all his own pictures.....taken mainly through an ordinary coolpix camera attached to a birding scope.

I nice site to look if the creation induces a state of calm in one.

Mind you, my young friend is what we call in the UK "a twitcher" ...twitching is anything but a calm pursuit!LOL

http://www.ukwildlifeimages.org.uk/index.html

Warm Christian love
Derek

Hello my beautiful Friends......thankyou for all the pictures of the wondrous pictures of Gods Creations.....they are matchless...

I marked the site of your friend to my favorites Derek....thankyou for sharing that with us...and your pictures are amazing that you took.

And the anting is amazing....

your friend always

Sandi

Oh my! You're feeding them??? LOL - I can't stand those pests and I even love and feed multitudes of sparrows! But starlings and brown-headed cowbirds - those 2 I just loathe to see at my feeders. I've found I can discourage the starlings by not putting suet cakes within their reach, and by offering only black-oil and niger seed in the feeders instead of mixed seed. (They love cracked corn, Rez) If they can get to it, they'll herd up and zoom in to devour a suet cake in an hour, while it may take the woodpeckers and huthatches a couple of days because they're fewer of them and they're not 'hogs' about it! I've had to get a bit creative in thwarting their gluttony - so it must also be God's plan to give them shorter beaks and tongues so they cannot reach what the woodpeckers can! More reasons I don't like them.... they claim other indigenous birds nesting sites - especially are they in competition with the more desirable purple martins, they are ravenous eaters, messy, ill-mannered, grouchy and loud-mouthed! They always create a ruckus - I think the word 'caucophany' was invented to describe their squawking noise!
The cowbirds also steal indigenous birds nests - often pushing out newly-hatched baby bluebirdsand wrens to take over their nests.

Just had to say something, you starling lover, you! LOL. It does take all colors to make a rainbow, sis!

I still love ya though - 'lucky' you!



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