HUMMINGBIRD VIDEO

This email message was sent by Earlene Skelton Boyd, FUHS '53.
This guy found this baby hummingbird after it was attacked, and he nursed it
back to health until it decided to stay and be his pet. Very charming video,
and be sure to have your sound on. The song in the background is almost as
good as the video itself. ENJOY :-)
http://www.wimp.com/babyhummingbird/

My husband and I helped a hummingbird family a few years ago when a bad rainstorm wrecked one side of their nest and the next morning one of the babies was hanging upside down by his toe nails. We put him back in the nest and Bill took a sprig from the Jacaranda tree and made a bannister for the wrecked side. They would lean their little heads on that bannister and watch us just a few feet below their nest. Their mother was so happy that she would fly around with me as I watered the yard.

One day when I was gone, my husband saw one of the little ones trying in vain to fly out the porch skylight and looking frantic and tired so he went out with a cottage cheese carton to capture him and take him out from under the porch roof. The little guy jumped onto his finger and perched there and rested quite a while until Bill gently nudged him to fly away.

See the old messages and a picture of "our" babies:
http://crazyoldcatlady.blogspot.com/2005/05/our-hummingbird-babies.html


http://crazyoldcatlady.blogspot.com/2005/05/our-hummingbirds-spring-2005-4-days.html

Notice the twigs my husband put to hold the little guys in the nest.