KM wrote:
<< Hummingbirds are the best. >>
Aren't they though? We had three of them for a while one summer. While
out
jogging, we saw a baby hummingbird fall from a tree. It had some sort of
disease, with patches of its feathers missing.
We took it home and fed it with an eyedropper and put it in a cage by an
open
window to simulate the outside, and my husband checked what to do for its
skin
condition. Amazingly, the mother showed up in a day or two and began
feeding it
through the cage! We've got it on video and it's so neat to watch.
We put the cage farther away from the window, and when the mother came
inside
to feed her little one, my husband caught her and put her in the cage so
the
little wounded one would have company. A few days later, while the cage
was
outside on the patio table, a third hummingbird showed up to feed the
little
one and eventually we got a huge cage to house all three. We always
wondered if
that was the mother and the father who came to feed it. But how did they
know
where to find the wounded one?
As soon as the little one was strong enough to survive on its own, we
released
all three of them. We still have the videos we took of these precious
birds,
our favorites.
Melinda
That is such a neat story. I just love animal stories. I think they much
smarter than we realize.