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Fearless Hummingbird Feeds Baby Sitting in Human Hands
Seeing a hummingbird up close is one thing, but witnessing a mother feed it’s young in your hand, is on another level.
This was the case when Peter, a man from Saratoga, CA, found a baby hummingbird that had fallen from it’s nest resting on the sidewalk. He picked up the little bird and made the decision to care for it on his own.
It isn’t recommended to handle wild animals, even birds, if found. Wild animals can be very hard to care for, and you may be doing more harm than good.
But for Peter, there was no question what he needed to do.
Peter decided to take the little fledgling outside as he was nursing it back to health. Perching the little bird on a stick, he would take it around to the flowers to get nectar, and allowed it to stretch it’s wings. The little bird had an apparent broken wing. As he was holding the baby bird cupped in his hands, to his amazement, the momma bird came back. She would approach Peter very closely, flying around his head at first. Immediately the baby would call out for it’s mother, and cautiously the mother approached.
Then she finally got the courage to land, feeding her little fledgling, in Peter’s hand! This would happen on a daily basis as Peter was nursing the young bird back to health.
While most are thinking that this is a pretty unusual thing considering it had been handled by a human, the fact is, hummingbirds have no sense of smell and do not abandon their young because of a human touch, like most birds do. Hummingbirds are also less frightened by humans, in most cases, because their habitats are around human development. But, for a wild bird to feel comfortable enough to land on a human hand is the amazing part. The mother, before giving birth, would stay around Peter’s home seeing him regularly. This may have been the reason.
Maybe she sensed he was not a threat, as we would like to imagine. Or, maybe her instinct to feed her baby was so strong that it didn’t matter. Either way, this was a beautiful sight to behold. And for Peter, an experience I’m sure he’ll never forget.
The baby bird was eventually taken to a nature center, where he was treated and later released into the wild.
Source: clearperspectives
