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Hummingbird!
16 years ago
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I just had the neatest experience with nature...and probably the coolest I've had in a long while.
A few minutes ago, I was holding a hummingbird in my hands :D
The poor little girl had gotten herself stuck under our back deck and was panicking. I was trying to gently nudge her out, but she ended up landing on the brick wall. I never thought that I'd get close enough, but I decided to try to see if I could take more direct approach to getting her away from the overhang. She actually let me pick her up! I brought her over to the feeder to see if she'd drink and regain her energy. She didn't want to drink, but did sit in my hand for a minute or so before taking off without so much as a hint of any problems.
Hummingbirds are just so cool! :D
A few minutes ago, I was holding a hummingbird in my hands :D
The poor little girl had gotten herself stuck under our back deck and was panicking. I was trying to gently nudge her out, but she ended up landing on the brick wall. I never thought that I'd get close enough, but I decided to try to see if I could take more direct approach to getting her away from the overhang. She actually let me pick her up! I brought her over to the feeder to see if she'd drink and regain her energy. She didn't want to drink, but did sit in my hand for a minute or so before taking off without so much as a hint of any problems.
Hummingbirds are just so cool! :D
Moongara
~moongara
I saw a hummingbird yesterday, it was pretty close but not as close you did. I can only imagine what it would be like to hold ones. Hummingbirds really are amazing creatures. They look so fragile and yet they aren't. I heard something interesting about hummingbirds, they are like cold blooded animals in that they can slow down their metabolisms when it gets cold so they don't need as much energy to survive.
LINCARD1000
~lincard1000
You know it's small experiences like that, that make you stop and consider just how marvelous nature and life can be sometimes, isn't it?
