Terry MacAlmon

Last Saturday Terry MacAlmon preached at Breslau All Nations Church B.A.N.C. Everyone was very excited that he had come to the B.A.N.C. because he is a very famous singer. However he also had a sense of humor, for example when God touches you fall down. He said just laying there, sucking carpet because someone had remain laying for 4 days once. That someone was laying for 4 days because God decided to bring him to heaven for 4 days. Accept everyone thought he was dead....sucking carpet what a joke. Anyway back to the topic. Well Terry had known Pastor Chamberlain (my gram pa) for a while I think. Terry called him brother Harold. Well they are friends. SUCKING CARPET! Ha, ha, ha! That was pretty funny. Well since this blog is about nature I might as well write about it;

Birds-This weekend there were many species of birds including what I thought was a Red-breasted Nuthatch. Even Kim who had taken birds for granted had found an interest for birds. She spotted some Blue Jays and said in Montreal ( where she lives) White-breasted Nuthatches feed on her hand. In Lynde's Conservation Area we have those feed in huge flocks at our hand. They even had a ride in my bucket of seed! I tried not to laugh but I couldn't help it and I scared the birds away.

Petz 5-For this paragraph my brother Jesse will be giving his opinion to this game (he wants me to do this)Okay, Jesse is talking
This game is so much fun, but there's something that I can't figure out. It's how to get to those two places. Its umm the lake and the bedroom. It doesn't tell you. And I really want to go there. And that's it. I like that chess game too. I don't want to do this anymore. Sammy that's all I'm doing Okay, Sammy.

Refreshing/Renewing Church

These past months my grandfather has been changing the church to a better place, if you wish to find this story out read on:

First my grandparents discovered there was a out-dated-church that needed someone to update it. My grandpa accepted the task and he got some workers, meanwhile he preached every Sunday 'till he got enough workers. Then they had to tear apart the Sanctuary. The next few Sundays everyone went downstairs to worship Jesus while the workers were getting rid of everything in there. After they built the new stage etc., etc. we praised God upstairs. Currently they are working on all the offices,
So we just pray in Jesus name that this church will be fixed and that he will direct us to the to right paths.

By the way today happens to be Sunday also........I totally forgot, I've got to get dressed and all ready..........................................Guess what I just said Jesus, then Max started barking like crazy.
So we know JC is in the house!!!!!
Hallelujah.
Okay Max you can stop barking it's just God, well, sure you can worship!
What is that, well you know, the one who created you and all.

1......2......3.......STOP BARKING MAX!!!!!!!!

Zack & Josh

Tonight we had some special guests, they were Zack and Josh. We played online games at the church and later we showed them our four wheelers. They came inside and of course I showed them my blog. Only Josh was a little bit interested, Zack was busy playing Jesse's nintendoDS. Of course you know how fast you can get addicted to them and now Zachary wants one. You know what is going to happen next, don't you... My guess is Joshua will want a DS when he spotted Zack playing with it. Then they'll be haunted by they evil power of...................................
ADDICTED. Okay, maybe I got a little exaggerated but still DS games look pretty realistic. Anyway, back to the topic; but Jean Claude is here so I will do a blog later.
TTYL,
Sam/Birdman
ThE Birdman

Great Birding Sites

Here are some bird sites that I recommend to you:
http://www.birds.cornell.edu
http://ebird.org/content/canada
http://www.hww.com
www.randomhouse.com/audubon
Hope these websites are helpful to you,
Birdman

Arizona Unidentified Birds

What is this?
What is this?
What is this?
Here is have found a parrot in Mexico, it was even tame enough to go in my hand.

Maybe it is an wild Amazon Parrot?

Every winter we go to Arizona, always finding new birds and other weird animals in the early morning. Here is the story of one of our trips:

It all began when our grandparents moved to Phoenix, Arizona so we decided to go there too. We signed out of school and we started to pack but it surprisingly didn't take very long. So we were ready to go and we were on the road. It took us 4 days and we made many stops to get souvenirs including a fancy wood-carved roadrunner.

By the time we were unpacked it was bedtime. So the next morning at 6 we went birding, but there wasn't any birds. But we continued walking until it was 8 and......There was birds here, there, over there, EVERYWHERE! IT WAS PORING WITH BIRDS! We didn't know which ones to identify first. So I just set my camera to rapidly taking pictures while I spinned around...Of course that wasn't exactly what happened I just took pictures of many birds, so beautiful I didn't know what they were?

We began putting birdseed out in our backyard and soon I found myself buying a 8kg bag of it. We had to refill 9 bird feeders daily. It was a lot of work but it was worth it. I finally got a field guide to Arizona Birds. And we saw quail, finches, hawks, wrens, thrushes, roadrunners, and lots lots more.

Thank you mom and dad for taking me here, IT WAS AN AWESOME TIME!!!!!!!!!!!

Baltimore Oriole

Baltimore Orioles have always excited me, the beutiful marking on their feathers or their interesting cup shaped nests. I have seen many orioles here in Kitchener and I found a oriole nest. But in Point Pelee there were orioles everywhere! I will tell about that story later. Anyway, here is some information about orioles you might want to know:

Baltimore Oriole
Icterus galbula
L 8.75" ws 11.5" wt 1.2 0z (33 g)
Shape like Bullock's, but averages slightly smaller.
Some very drab females are difficult to distinguish
from Bullock's.
Voice: Song a short series of rich, clear, whistled
notes pidoo tewdi tewidi yewdi tew tidew; variable in
pattern, with pauses between each phrase; often
gives simple two-note whistle hulee and varia-
tions. Call a dry, harsh, uneven rattle. Flight call
a husky, tinny, trumpeting veet.

Bye, Birdman

Very Close Pictures(Part 2)

Here I am going to tell you the full story of these very close up pictures:

It all began when we went out to buy birdseed. There was a variety of choices and we chose a mix seed bag. Then we went home and I made many types of feeders including water bottle feeders. I put the seed in them and they came right away. So I decided to tame them, I brought out all the required birding supplies and I was ready to go. I waited for hours standing with birdseed in my hand. Then finally a very brave chickadee finally came and took some seeds. Since then birds will come to my hand. Including nuthatches. But I couldn't have done it without cousin Ruth buying some birdfeeder parts. Here is a edited video of them on my hand.

Very Close Pictures

White-breasted Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch
Black-capped Chickadee

My Art

Here is a picture I drew.

White-breasted Nuthatch/Birding With Ruth

Here is a White-breasted Nuthatch feeding at our backyard feeder.

This weekend I went birding with my cousin Ruth. She picked me up at 9. We drove over to Linear Trail, which is 8kms long. We might have walked about 2 or 3 km of it but we still managed to identify 24 species of birds! Including a rare crossbreed between a Mallard and a Snow Goose. We also saw Cedar Waxwings, European Starlings, Northern Cardinals and lots more. It was very exciting and we were there for 2 and a half hours! After that we went to Ruth's house and had a snack, guess what we saw there........A Red-breasted Nuthatch!!!!!!!!!!!! Thats makes 25 species of birds. Wow the last time I saw that many was at Point Pelee! Anyway, after that we went to the swamp but we only saw Mallards and geese. So we decided to have lunch at Wendy's. Chicken, chicken I love chicken.......Hey, Samuel snap out of it. Oh fine , but here is a secret.................................................................CHICKEN!!! OK I'll stop being silly!
Anyway, I had a great time thank you cousin Ruth!!!!!
I forgot my camera though:-(

Four Wheelers

My brother and I ready to go four wheeling.
All set to go!

This weekend we went to Kitchener and my brother and I were busy playing our Nintendo DS's and our dad had left to get us a surprise. When he came back he asked us to look in the trailer......There was a four wheeler! We were amazed. Soon we found ourselves driving the four wheeler. But this soon went into a fight to who would go on it. Our dad solved the problem and bought another one. The next day my dad and I got all ready for the trip, at 10 Jesse woke up. He wanted to go so he had to ride with my dad. My mom took some pictures and we were off. We agreed that we would go on our birding trail. I had some difficulties but it was still fun!
Thank you dad for making this very fun trip possible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Your the best!!!!

Our Dog

Our dog has grown very much and is alsmost full grown. He is just about trained for many tricks like shake or to keep a treat on his head until I saw "Okay" then he will shake it off his head an eat it. Anyway here are some pictures of him:

Who thinks he has grown a lot?

He is 16 pounds already!

Birding With My Cousin Ruth

Us Identifying Birds Online
The Swamp

Northern Pintails

Mallard

Eastern Phoebe

Geese Landing

Mallard Sunning

Praying Mantis

Today my cousin Ruth and I went birding and saw many birds and animals. Including hard to find species like a pintail and a Praying Mantis, but I'll talk about that later.

First I got all ready for birdwatching and packed some snacks, then my cousin Ruth came and picked me up. She drove me to a neighbourly famous swamp. We walked down there where a few pairs of Mallards and what Ruth thought was a female Wood Duck. Then we got back in the van and drove to they other side of the swamp, there I spotted the pintails. I took several pictures of them but only posted one on this blog.

Then we drove off to another Grand River Trail. Here it was blazing hot so we didn't stay very long but still saw a fair amount of birds.

After that we had a snack and went to a place Ruth goes to often. It was 8km. but we only walked a short distance. I saw many critters and small animals there including Praying Mantis's! All of a sudden many bikes came riding by us so we went off the trail and almost steped on a Garder Snake which slittered away so fast that I could'nt take a picture of it. So we continued walking and saw a few signs about Global Warming. As we walked tons of species of grasshoppers suddenly started hopping on our legs. We then turned around and saw many butterflies inluding Swallowtails. But it was so hot that we had to go home.

I had a great time!

Thank you Cousin Ruth.

Cousin Ruth's-Kitchener

We had just awoken and I did all my morning necessities, brush teeth, clean face, etc. I had breakfast and took Max for his morning walk. After that we packed all Max's traveling supplies and drove off to Kitchener. It took a few hours to get there so we watched several movies to pass the time. Once we arrived there we went to a church that our grandparents would be working at for a couple of months. The church has fourty acers. At that church there were two little feisty Yorkshire Terriers. Max played with them for a while and the we went to Swiss Chalet for dinner. Then we went to Cousin Ruth's house.
They had a big black dog named Dakota and he is nine years old. They also had many bird books I talked with cousin Ruth for a while about birds then visited Dakota.
Bye,Bird man


Pug vs. Yorshire Terrier
Pug says-Hey, Mr. Fluffy Pants, get out of here! Yorshire Terrier says-No, Mr. Grumpy Gibbles! Pug says-Take that and that and that!!! Yorshire Terrier says-Alright, alright can I at least have one of your puppies. PLEASE! Pug says-NO! Yorshire Terrier says-Just one tiny pup! Pug says- NO! AND BE OFF WITH YOU!!

Neighbourly Skunks!

We think our neighbour Tim has a neighbour of skunks in his backyard because it has so much garbage. Across the road from us Antoinet also thinks so and its smells over there. When walk over to get the mail (the mailbox is by Tim's house) we smell........guess,...........guess, ........really, guess...SKUNK! The garbage in Tim's backyard has been there for a long time. He has alsomst finshed cleaning his house and ABOUT TO TAKE OUT THE GARBAGE!!

We have shelter under our fort which is perfect for skunks and they might move over here.
Bye, Birdman

Musselman's Lake - Cedar Beach

Mclaggan Bay (Pictures)

Hot Summer Days

This summer is eceptionaly hot, so hot that today I can't take Max for a walk. Today it is 40 degrees Celsius and Pugs are prone to heatstroke. Even my back has turned brown and I rarely exercise on my trampoline. Of course the picture of Max was early and only 20 degrees Celsius and he wasn't panting rapidly (a sign of heatstroke).

Anyway I don't have much time to write because were going to the Lake.

Bye,BIRD MAN

Squirrels, squirrels, squirrels

Today when I went outside to feed the pond fish, a loud banging came from the corner of our yard, I soon found out it was a Black Squirrel. It was destroying the bird feeder I had just made after it ate most of the seed! There was also a Eastern Chipmunk that wasn't doing much harm.



There is a skunk or should I say family of skunks living in our neighbours yard. They spray every morning and the smell stays all day. One time they came right in our front yard when my dad was loading his truck for the morning's work. My dad was surprised and a little scared when he noticed them. My dad was blessed that he did not get sprayed.

Even for skunks to come in the front yard with humans and lights on. Well, you just can't predict what an animal will do next.
BIRDMAN

Summer Holidays

Since it is Summer Holidays I will post a blog more often.

Busy Training Max

I'm sorry that I did not make a blog in a very long time. My family and I were busy training Max so I did'nt have a chance to right on my blog. I will try to post a blog sometime soon.

Bye,

Birdman