Bird Day on Galapagos

In the morning I was brought to Galapagos ... From the height of the island it would seem like freckles scattered over the green of the ocean. But I have not achieved such a height. On the contrary, with approaching Earth, I lost height. Under the wings, the water was gritting, and when in the manner of the blue -legged Olushi it was supposed to put his paws forward and prepare for landing, a gray land formed. Now it was necessary to completely forget that the person is the master on earth, and to remember that he is a guest. The Galapagos Islands were conceived by the Lord as uninhabited. Nothing was prepared for people there. He placed them one and a half thousand kilometers from the South American continent in the Pacific Ocean, in the cold course of humbulture, right at the equator. Exotic creatures are adjacent to the islands and change their data from above in accordance with the theory of Darwin. Ground iguana on the same island with a round tail (she found food on the ground), on the other island it feeds into the sea, and therefore its tail is flat (to swim). Little and sea turtles, in size and lean faces, amazing the imagination, penguins, sea lions, whales, dolphins ... harsh rocks, sand, in some places poor vegetation and lack of minerals saved this place from the king of nature. Now he goes to the islands, paying a hundred dollars for visiting (the money goes to defend from him) and shake off the dust of cities from his feet. It makes a promise not to smoke in the animal habitat (even on a boat on the way to some islands) and wash your legs along with shoes in sea water before going to the shore so as not to bring some kind of larva or seed from one island from one island. Let it come for itself or the bird will bring. But not a person. He is limited in rights. He was allocated a two -meter width of the path along which he goes. Unless, of course, one of the owners does not lie on it ... There was once in our country the day of birds. Not a tankman or paratrooper, not an employee of trade, printing, radio, television. Not even a day of dogs, horses or pigs, i.e. individuals regulated by the state. Namely, the birds that are free, cosmopolitan, flying, even if sedentary, which we do not understand and which are not even. These same birds were present as something not specific in our lives. Not figurative. They were used by smart people to enhance the expected effect, but the "personality" was lubricated. Of course, you can recall a crow and a fox, some nightingale with a donkey, etc. The humanized birds are full ... But the birds actually were inexplicable for a long time. They were an example of our idea of them. The first who seriously reacted to them in literature was A. Bitov. He wrote a great book about them and about us, calling it "Birds, or the announcement of a person." Of course, even to Andrei Georgievich, this bunch attracted the writers. They expected atrocities from him, and he ate Chizhik, as the classic wrote about a bird and a leader (also, consider, a person). However, only Bitov understood the birds and explained them to us. Russia can also be proud that the bird’s painting appeared not as an attribute, but as a character of Natalia Nesterova (see “OG”, No. 13), but in the sculpture of Lazar Gadaev. Galapagos, where in the year 365 days of birds, brought me closer to a series of gallows of air swimmers. Yes, there is a sin not to shoot them. Frigates are giant black swallows, inflating red goiter in moments of love. Albatrosses, whose wingspan prevents them from flying up from the ground and water. To climb into the air, they need to jump off the cliff; Pelicans, cormorants (some of them do not know how to fly at all) ... and, finally, my favorites are synlavic stupids - the boobies of the king of heaven. Pikeros, as they are called on the islands, without spray from a huge height crashes into the water for prey. And how they take care of the ladies, spreading the wings and alternately raising the legs. How beautiful they are, how far they are from the peoples. Fortunately. Bird Day! Spring. Fly! Or at least raise your legs. They bent at the knee, put it on the ground. Look around. Really, there is still someone to love.

Now it was necessary to completely forget that the person is the master on earth, and to remember that he is a guest. The Galapagos Islands were conceived by the Lord as uninhabited. Nothing was prepared for people there. He placed them one and a half thousand kilometers from the South American continent in the Pacific Ocean, in the cold course of humbulture, right at the equator. Exotic creatures are adjacent to the islands and change their data from above in accordance with the theory of Darwin. Ground iguana on the same island with a round tail (she found food on the ground), on the other island it feeds into the sea, and therefore its tail is flat (to swim). Little and sea turtles, in size and lean faces, amazing the imagination, penguins, sea lions, whales, dolphins ... harsh rocks, sand, in some places poor vegetation and lack of minerals saved this place from the king of nature.

Now he goes to the islands, paying a hundred dollars for visiting (the money goes to defend from him) and shake off the dust of cities from his feet. It makes a promise not to smoke in the animal habitat (even on a boat on the way to some islands) and wash your legs along with shoes in sea water before going to the shore so as not to bring some kind of larva or seed from one island from one island. Let it come for itself or the bird will bring. But not a person. He is limited in rights. He was allocated a two -meter width of the path along which he goes. Unless, of course, any of the hosts does not lie on it ...

There was once a day of birds in our country. Not a tankman or paratrooper, not an employee of trade, printing, radio, television. Not even a day of dogs, horses or pigs, i.e. individuals regulated by the state. Namely, the birds that are free, cosmopolitan, flying, even if sedentary, which we do not understand and which are not even. These same birds were present as something not specific in our lives. Not figurative. They were used by smart people to enhance the expected effect, but the "personality" was lubricated. Of course, you can recall a crow and a fox, some nightingale with a donkey, etc. The humanized birds are full ... But the birds actually were inexplicable for a long time. They were an example of our idea of them. The first who seriously reacted to them in literature was A. Bitov. He wrote a great book about them and about us, calling it "Birds, or the announcement of a person." Of course, even to Andrei Georgievich, this bunch attracted the writers. They expected atrocities from him, and he ate Chizhik, as the classic wrote about a bird and a leader (also, consider, a person). However, only Bitov understood the birds and explained them to us. Russia can also be proud that the bird’s painting appeared not as an attribute, but as a character of Natalia Nesterova (see “OG”, No. 13), but in the sculpture of Lazar Gadaev.

Galapagos, where in the year 365 days of birds, brought me closer to a series of gallows of air swimmers. Yes, there is a sin not to shoot them. Frigates are giant black swallows, inflating red goiter in moments of love. Albatrosses, whose wingspan prevents them from flying up from the ground and water. To climb into the air, they need to jump off the cliff; Pelicans, cormorants (some of them do not know how to fly at all) ... and, finally, my favorites are synlavic stupids - the boobies of the king of heaven. Pikeros, as they are called on the islands, without spray from a huge height crashes into the water for prey.

And how they take care of the ladies, spreading the wings and alternately raising the legs. How beautiful they are, how far they are from the peoples. Fortunately.

Bird Day! Spring. Fly! Or at least raise your legs. They bent at the knee, put it on the ground. Look around. Really, there is still someone to love.