Senin, 31 Mei 2010

Another Hummingbird Encounter

Yesterday afternoon I heard the landlady calling my name so I went out to see what was going on.  She had a towel in her hands and unwrapped it to show me a hummingbird.  Apparently he had flown into her house and bumped himself on something and she was afraid that he was injured.  We got down one of our feeders and she held him up to it and he ate really well.  Poor fellow must have been really hungry and scared; although he didn't seem to mind us handling him.  They are fairly used to us though as they come and sit and watch us and fly right up to within a few inches of my face when I am outside.  They are fairly curious little birds.
 He looked like one of his wings was injured so she went back downstairs to look for something to keep him in while he recovered. 
 Anyway, a little while later she came back up and told me that she had opened all the doors and windows in the house, put the feeder and the bird in the kitchen by the window and he was eating like crazy.  Shortly after another hummingbird flew past the window and he saw it.  She said he just up and flew off out the window to join his buddies. I am calling it a "he" as he was brightly colored and the females usually have a duller coloration.
His coloration doesn't show up very well in the picture; they are really pretty in the sunlight.

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