A little hummer flew into a glass window on the second floor today where my daughter lives. She called right away, and when I went upstairs I saw the poor peep was knocked out but still breathing. Last week a hawk flew into the glass balcony and was not as fortunate. But that’s a path of the feather for another time. Perhaps though, the hawk’s fatal crash made it that much more pressing to me that this little bird live at least for today.<\/p>\n
We spent perhaps two hours with the small creature. It really is quite breath taking to hold something that is usually moving at the speed of light. Wizzzz, Swooosh, Zipppp. Humming birds are so fast it’s hard to he appreciate all of the detail on their tiny feathers. The iridescent sheen in the sunlight caught all of the blues, teal and green down her back. And that tongue! It was longer than her beak and was simply amazing to watch as it found every crevasse in the redneck’s wise old palm.<\/p>\n