We rescue several a day that get "trapped" in our back snow porch. There's enough big openings to fly a baby pterodactyl through, but the hummingbirds seem to generally be looking straight ahead, and then fly in a left-to-right/right-to-left motion in front of the glass, in apparent panic, followed by exhaustion.
We can reach them easily so it's a matter of just bringing both hands slowly togethether until the hummingbird is cupped inside them, and then releasing them. They feel like velvet. They seem to have become accustomed to being handled a bit (unsure if it's the same ones we're catching over and over). They used to fly out of sight when released, whereas now they just fly 10 feet away to the nearest tree and then back to the feeder. Tom C. >From: "John Celio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> >To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> >Subject: Peso: Hummingbird trapped >Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 14:17:33 -0700 > >http://www.neovenator.com/special/hummingbird.jpg > >A few weeks back, this hummingbird got it's dumb self stuck flying around >the skylight at work, unable to figure out that if it only went *down*, it >could fly out the giant shop door. > > >In other news, now that I've got my computer running properly, I hope to be >a little more active around here again. > >John > >P.S.: has anyone seen any of those "I am a Pentaxian" t-shirts for sale or >auction? >-- >http://www.neovenator.com >http://www.cafepress.com/neovenatorphoto > > >-- >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >PDML@pdml.net >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
