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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, June 8, 2016
Backyard bird watching with Harry by Harry Johnson
Spring and summer migrations
It’s the end of spring and the start of sum-
mer here in the Illinois Valley. During this time
of the year you’ll notice many different birds
coming and going in your backyard. The annual
migration is one of the greatest and hardest ad-
ventures a bird can ever do.
Here are some migration facts for you:
1. Most migratory birds travel at night,
relying on starlight for navigational clues. They
recognize constellations and get critical direc-
tional information from the position of the stars
in the night sky.
2. Bright lights in buildings lure countless
migratory birds into collisions, but “lights out”
programs in cities along the flyways can have
a profound impact. Bird deaths declined by 80
percent when lights were turned off at night at
Chicago’s McCormick Place, and that’s just one
building.
3. Tiny songbirds can migrate hundreds of
miles a day, rocketing through their spring routes
up to three times faster than researchers used to
believe.
4. The beams of New York’s annual 9/11
“Tribute in Light” are bright enough to throw
millions of birds off their migratory course. So,
New York City Audubon members and volun-
teers work on site to have the lights turned off at
intervals, letting birds regain their bearing and
resume their flights unharmed.
5. Almost all migratory birds are threat-
ened somewhere along their ranges, with only 9
percent of all migratory species protected year
round in all of their habitats.
Here are some of the longest migrations
in the bird world:
1. Sooty shearwater (40,000 miles). The
sooty shearwater travels from the Falkland
Islands in the spring to Arctic waters to feed
throughout summer. They can cover as much as
310 miles a day.
2. Pied wheatear (11,184 miles). You
don’t have to be big to travel far and the Pied
Wheatear proves it. This small insect eating bird
travels from the extreme southeast of Europe
to China. They winter in India and northeastern
Africa.
3. Pectoral sandpiper (18,000 miles). For
some of us, it’s hard to imagine driving our car
18,000 miles in a year, now imagine flying that
distance in the average course of a year, each and
ever year of your life. The pectoral sandpiper
travels from breeding grounds in the tundra of
northeast Asia or Alaska and central Canada,
all the way down to wintering grounds in South
America, with the Asian breeders going as far as
Australia.
4. Short-tailed shearwater (27,000 miles).
Another Shearwater with an affinity for travel,
though it doesn’t travel as far as its cousin. The
short-tailed shearwater travels the Pacific every
year. They move from the breeding grounds in
Australia up to the Aleutian Islands and Kam-
chatka in the far north. They travel down the west
coast of North America on their way back south.
5. Arctic tern (44,000 miles). The Arctic
tern travels twice the distance previously thought,
traveling an average of 44,000 miles per year.
That gives it the longest migration of any bird in
the world. The Arctic tern travels from Greenland
all the way down to the Weddell Sea in Antarc-
tica. That’s pole to pole. That’s mind blowing.
The longest nonstop flight ever recorder:
bar-tailed godwit (7,145 miles). Many species
travel amazing distances over the course of a
season, but not nonstop. The bar-tailed godwit a
migrating water bird. This bird flew 7,145 miles
from Alaska to New Zealand in nine days, with-
out ever once stopping for food, water or to rest.
What is the longest hummingbird migra-
tion? The rufous hummingbird has the longest
migration of any hummingbird species with
a distance of more that 3,000 miles. They can
travel from Alaska and their nesting grounds to
its winter habitat in Mexico.
What about the shortest migration? This
goes to the mountain quail. They live primarily in
areas of dense cover in the wooded foothills and
mountains along the West Coast of the United
States. In the fall these birds congregate into fam-
ily groups of up to 20 birds and make their way
from their summer homes to the sheltered valley
below the snowline in the winter. This seasonal
journey by the quail may cover distances of up to
20 miles by foot.
If you have any questions or comments you
can contact me at birdwatching@frontiernet.net.
The above is from Harry Johnson in
O’Brien and birdwatchersdigest.com, treehugger.
com, hummingbirdsformon.com and the Audubon
Society.
Rufous hummingbird in flight.
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Church News
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
Pray More
Let me ask you a question. Do you believe God answers
prayer?
Do you believe that God can still heal the sick, that he
can cause the blind to see, cause the lame to walk, and cause
the most hardened hearts to change? Do you believe that God
can still turn people like Saul into someone like the Apostle
Paul?
The Centurion in Luke 7:1-10 believed it. In fact he was
so confident that the power of God as manifested through
Jesus Christ could do all those things that he didn’t even need
Jesus to come to his house. He KNEW Jesus could do it; even
from afar. He had no doubt about the power of God.
You might remember Roma Downey from the hit CBS
show “Touched by an Angel” or, more recently, her television
series called “Answered Prayers” on TLC. She wrote an ar-
ticle for “Fox News,” which said: “If you believe in the power
of prayer, would you please pray more? More and more, I’m
convinced that the world would be a much better place if
we took prayer more seriously. Prayer is not just a spiritual
practice, it’s the means by which God changes our lives and
changes the world.
I believe she’s right. I believe that much of the civil un-
rest we’re seeing here at home and the violence we see abroad
is growing because we just don’t pray anymore. The only time
we’re willing to go down on our knees before God is when
things have gotten so bad that we’re finally out of options.
But that’s not how it’s supposed to be. Prayer is like
spiritual breathing. If you stopped breathing you’d stop living.
Prayer is how we stay connected with God; it’s how we talk
to him; how he leads us and how he responds to us. The New
Testament teaches that prayer isn’t just something we should
do occasionally; it’s something we do continually. 1 Thessalo-
nians 5:17 says, “pray without ceasing.”
If anyone had an excuse not to pray it was Jesus; he
already had everything He needed and all the power and
provision in the world. Yet the Gospels note that Jesus “often
withdrew to lonely places to pray.” (Luke 5:16)
The best thing we can do for a broken heart and a broken
world today is to get on our knees & pray. When we do, we’ll
find God is already there. As Romans 8:26 puts it: “In the
same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not
know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself inter-
cedes for us.”
Start today. Pray more.
Community Bible Church
Self Discipline
Proverbs 16:32 (NKJV) He who is slow to
anger is better than the mighty, and he who
rules his spirit than he who takes a city.
Media can be addicting: computers,
I-pads, notebooks, or cell phones. The doors
they open can also be addicting: texting,
internet, email, facebook, or twitter. I read
a story not too long ago about a young lady
who was texting while she was driving, and
she crashed her car. You would have thought
that would have taught her a lesson, but ap-
parently not – because she was in an acci-
dent again. This time it cost her life; she was
texting while driving again. She apparently
could not bring herself to use the self control
necessary to shut off her phone and pay at-
tention to her driving.
There are many areas of life in
which we need to exert self control that
doesn’t deal with media. What about eat-
ing? One’s consumption of food may consist
of eating too much or of eating the wrong
kinds of foods. Maybe lack of self-control is
shown by drug use or alcohol use. Maybe it
could be our tempers.
How many times have I run into
people who could not keep a lid on their
tempers? The damage they leave behind
them is tragic to see. They leave behind
damaged wives, children, parents, siblings or
friends who have been bitterly and viciously
attacked – verbally and physically. As I have
counseled over the years, I have talked to
thoroughly damaged wives or husbands who
at one time stood at an altar and declared
before those assembled witnesses that they
would love, honor, and cherish their spouse
– and yet they have been virtually destroyed
by that spouse.
James 3:6 talks of the undisciplined
tongue this way: “The tongue also is a fire,
a world of evil among the parts of the body.
It corrupts the whole person, sets the whole
course of his life on fire, and is itself set on
fire by hell.” Children may be the most dam-
aged by the uncontrolled mouth used upon
them because they are still forming their
self-image and will probably at some level
silently accept as true the words spewed out
at them.
How well do you control yourself?
You may think it is impossible, but let me
encourage you with this, “with God nothing
is impossible.” Come see us this Sunday.
In Christ,
Pastor Dave
Places of Worship
BRIDGEVIEW
COMMUNITY CHURCH
5181 Holland Loop Rd., CJ
541-592-3923
“Come Join the Worship!”
Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m.
Pastor Sonny Moore
www.kbcc.us
COMMUNITY BIBLE CHURCH
Pastor Dave Gordon
113 S. Caves Ave., CJ
Office: 541-592-3896
Email: cbccca@gmail.com
Sunday Worship - 10:30 a.m.
Christian Academy
Pre-K to 12th grade
Awana - Wednesdays - 6 p.m.
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7th DAY ADVENTIST
265 S. Old Stage Rd., CJ
Sabbath School - 9:30 a.m.
Saturday Worship 11 a.m.
Pastor Christian Martin
Church (541) 592-3218
Madrone Adventist School
541-592-3330
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ST. PATRICK OF THE FOREST
CATHOLIC CHURCH
407 W. River St., CJ
541-592-3658
Fr. William Holtzinger, Pastor
Mass - Sunday 11 a.m..
Sacrament of Reconciliation
Sunday - 10:30 a.m.
Holy Days TBA
* * *
IMMANUEL UNITED
METHODIST CHURCH
200 Watkins St., CJ
Phone 541-592-3876
Pastor Charles Chase
Sunday School - 9:15 a.m.
Sunday Worship - 9:15 a.m.
Child-care for small children
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TAKILMA BIBLE CHURCH
10343 Takilma Road, Takilma
Pastor Dan Robinson
Bible Study / Prayer Time
9:30 a.m.
Morning Worship 11 a.m
Wednesday Bible Study
7 p.m
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Illinois Valley Praise Center
28569 Redwood Hwy. CJ
Non-denominational
Bible-believing Church
Sunday school – 9:30 a.m.
Sunday Service – 10:30 a.m.
Thursday Seekers
Meeting – 7 p.m.
Youth Group Thursday – 7 p.m.
www.ivpraisecenter.com
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First Baptist Church of Selma
18285 Redwood Hwy., Selma
541-597-4169
Pastor Monty Pope
Sunday School - 9:45 a.m.
Worship - 11 a.m.
GOOD SHEPHERD
LUTHERAN CHURCH
East River Street
& Lewis Court, CJ
Annemarie Richardson
Lay Pastor.
Sunday School - 9:15 a.m.
Sunday Worship - 10 a.m.
Church Phone: 541-592-2290
www.goodshepherdlutheraniv.net
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VALLEY EVANGELICAL
FREE CHURCH
498 Laurel Road, CJ
P.O. Box 1248
Pastor Marvin Porter
Sunday School - 9:45 a.m.
Worship Service - 11 a.m.
evfree@frontiernet.net
541-592-6160
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FOUNTAIN OF LIFE
ASSEMBLY OF GOD
451 S. Junction Ave., CJ
541-592-3956
Pastor Mark McLean
Morning Worship
9:30 & 11 a.m.
Wednesday - 7 p.m.
Adult Bible Study
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ST. MATTHIAS EPISCOPAL
CHURCH
25904 Redwood Hwy., CJ
541-592-2006
Rev. Bryant Bechtold
Sunday Worship
Service 10:30 a.m.
THE CHURCH OF JESUS
CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY
SAINTS
209 S. Junction Ave., CJ
Sacrament Meet - 10 a.m.
Sunday School - 11:20 a.m.
Priesthood, Relief Soc. -
12:10 p.m.
Bishop
Larry Hammersmith
541-592-3919
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Illinois Valley Baptist Church
541-592-6149
102 South Redwood Hwy
(in the County Building)
Pastor Steve Root
Sunday Worship 10:30 AM
Wednesday Bible Study, Prayer
& Youth Program 7:00 PM
Friday Ladies Bible Study
11:00 AM
Ministry at CBC
Sunday, June 12
Morning Worship – 10:30 a.m.
Prayer and Praise – 6 p.m.
Community Christian Academy
Accepting Registrations for next year
Preschool – High School
Free Vacation Bible School
June 20-24
9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Age 3 to Grade 6
Registration at 8:30
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