Sun Dublan
Each After its Own Kind  

This evening as we were sitting out side in the cool we were noticing the calls of the different birds that live around our house. The whistle of the noisy black bird contrasted greatly with the soft cooing of the morning dove. Then came a very distinctive cooing of the ring necked dove. This reminded me of how I learned of the ring necked dove.

About five years ago Naoma and I would swim in our pool early in the morning and in the evening. We noticed that each morning a dove would come and sit on Sister Parsons T.V. antenna. I noticed that this particular dove had a very different call than the white winged doves with which I was very familiar. I had even put words to the varied call of the white winged dove. This dove that sat on the antenna had a very different cooing call. Year after year we noticed that what we thought was the same old dove came back each year and sat on the same antenna all summer long. After noticing this same call of this different dove for four or five years I began to suspect that this old dove had transmitted this strange different call to his posterity.

I often thought to myself that it was very strange that this dove did not call like the others of his species. When we began to put out wheat for the birds many white winged doves began to come and eat. I could not see well enough to distinguish the birds individually. Ventura began to tell me that our old dove from the antenna was coming to eat the wheat, and that he knew him from his lighter color and the black ring around his neck. I realized then that our old bird with the strange call was not a white winged dove but belonged to the species of the ringed neck dove that I had seen in the deserts of Arizona.

Soon Ventura informed me that five or six of the ringed necked doves were coming to eat the wheat. We could hear the same different coo of the ringed neck doves coming from different directions. I was convinced that all of the different doves and birds were true to the God given command to reproduce each in its own sphere and element, each after its own kind. What a wonderful lesson came to me to strengthen my testimony about the words of the Lord.

When I was a very young boy, I made a collection of many different birds nests and their eggs. I discovered then that each bird within its spieces had the same kind of nests and the same color, size, and markings of its eggs. The humming birds tiny nest was made up mainly of the downey cotton from the cottonwood tree lined with soft feathers inside. The tiny eggs were white tinged just a little with pale blue. I only found two eggs to the nest. I was intrgued to find that all of the nests of the Baltimore Oriole were a finely woven nest of horse hair hanging from the small branches high in the trees. I wondered at the time where each pair of Orioles could find enough loose horse hair to weave that beautiful nest. Inside they lined the bottom of the hanging nest with soft down and feathers. I could see that the nest was secured in such a way that when it swayed in the wind that the eggs would not fall out or be damaged. I wondered if in some places the Orioles would be forced to use some other kind of hair or fiber to use for their beautifully woven nests. All of the Oriol nests that I ever saw were made and woven tightly with the strong hair of the horses tail or mane.

The Boatailed Grackle always reinforced the bottom of their nest with mud mixed with strong roots and grass. Their eggs were a dark greenish blue with curious lines and blobs of dark color. The Swallow of course built their nests of adobe seeking out a sheltered place in the rafters of a room or porch. I think we here in Mexico have taken the lesson from the Swallow and build our houses from adobe, which are durable and warm in winter and cool in summer. The cliff swallow usually finds a sheltered overhang and builds a different adobe nest hanging from the roof of the rock. It builds starting from the top leaving a small entrance hole on one side of the nest. Usually they build in colonies with many nests hanging from the rock. I think I have made the point that each spieces of bird has its own way to live its life. Each build their nest, lay the same amount of eggs, and raise their young according to the instinct and the program that the Lord has given them.

All of the beasts. The fouls, the fishes, the insects, and all creeping things are obeying the Lords command. Even the plants in all of their varieties are fulfilling the measure of their creation.

Only the domesticated animals that man has changed vary their habits and their ways of doing things. Man has developed many different varieties and breeds of cattle, horses, sheep and all the different domesticated animals. In the plant world man has domesticated and changed thousands of plants. Only the plants that remain in the wild continue to multiply in their own sphere according to the command of our Heavenly Father.

In the beginning God commanded Adam and Eve too multiply and replenish the earth that they might have joy and rejoicing in their posterity. God also gave man his free agency to choose his life and what he'll do. Isn't it wonderful that we can choose our own way and are free to progress and grow according to the plan of our Heavenly Father. We are not subject to live by instinct and the program that the Lord has given to each species of the beasts, the fowls, the fishes, the insects and all wild plant and animal life. The Lord gave them all a commandment to multiply and replenish the earth each in its own sphere and species, each after its own kind.

That is why we can identify each species by their looks and markings according to their calls and their habits. The burro by its bray, and the horse by its whinny. Each bird spieces by its size, color, and markings. Each species by its song, nest, and eating habits.

5/4/2005 Webmaster: Troy Bowman