In the Path of Hummingbirds
June 21, 2007 by Rebecca
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Same, Rebbeca. In fact, I thought they were completely adverse to people. These are amazing photos and I’m surprised more people haven’t told you so yet.
Cheers for sharing them.
Hummingbirds acclimate to people pretty quickly. My grandpa once had one come up to his ice cream cone when he was eating it on his back porch. It hovered and looked him right in the face, inches away. The more they’re around people, the more comfortable they become with them. I’ve had them come near when I’ve been putting the feeder back up.
Still, these pictures are exceptional. What a thrill that would be!
Hey, Becca – I found out more about those photos. There’s a write-up at About.com:
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_handfed_hummingbirds.htm
The woman’s site shows these pictures, plus others. She tells how she gained the birds’ trust, too. It doesn’t seem too hard. Wouldn’t that be fun to do this summer?
Very very cool! I’m not sure I’d have the patience to do this! By the second morning I’d start saying “Come on already! Land on my hand!” I can’t imagine what tiny little fluttering humming birds would feel like on your hands! Thanks for sharing the link Kimberly!
This photo is the most amazing thing I have ever seen. I love hummingbirds. I seen one once in my life and that was from a distance.
I had no Idea they would actually get that close to you.
Thank you so much for sharing this photo. It’s beautiful.
this is such a wonderful display of how
if we are kind and treat all living things
with respect and care they will talk to
us and even listen. you must have felt
some communacation with them. we do
not need words to convey our ideas nor
do they just feel your thoughts and they
will undestand the feeling not the words
but the feelings around them . take care
dave
how did you get them to drink from your hand?
Hey how in the world do you do that that is AWSOME!! We don’t have alot of Humming birds around here will other birds? If so, tell me!!! What kind of food do you need? What store is it located at? What kind of bird do you like the best out of all of them? Mine is a Humming bird, Red bird, and a Blue Jay!!!!!!!
My Grannie used to have a couple that would come and have “coffee” with her in the morning in her garden. That was in South Texas. I used to think that woman was a Saint because those little hummingbirds would fly near here like that. Needless to say the other coffee cup had colored sugar water in it. But those little birds would look forward to their morning “coffee” with my Grandmother.
i love hummingbird i saved one hummer life at my job he ran into the glass i made some cane water in a feeding bottle and he drink some and flew away but i don’t have a picture sorry.
Hummingbirds remember you if you treat them well.
I had one follow me around for a year!
about 13 years ago, my grandpa used to set out these huge plastic hummingbird feeders in the shape of strawberries.
Every spring, if the feeders weren’t up, they would hover by the back kitchen window.
One year, I was looking out that same window when one hovered real close, looking at me.
I immediately turned and told my grandpa who had walked into the kitchen that the hummingbirds were hungry and were looking for the feeder. He obliged them of course. it was so cool to watch them dance around my grandpa as he put it up for them.
For a year afterwards (till I had to move away), that same hummingbird would often follow me around when I went to school or into town. It was nice to have the company.
Where are they? They were around during the rainy, wet and cold winter. Now that it’s sunny and springy…they’re not here!
I hope I am lucky enough to get close to my hummingbirds this summer! I can’t wait until they arrive.
Hi, my name is tandra i was writing because every day that i stand outside of my front door this humming bird flys right up to me. Now this has been going on for about a year, the same bird every day. I am starting to think its watching ovre me or somthing. I just wanted to get a little more info from someone that knows about this wonderfull bird.
Oh God! that is so beautiful. I am so happy to see that. I am just speechless. Just so enrapturing.
I’ve had them flying around me when I am putting up the feeder. However, having thm feed out of my hand would be fantastic!!
This is photoshopped. Hummingbirds are extinct.
Awesome pictures! I’ve always love hummingbirds, and always had feeders. When I was a younger, I would put my finger on the perch of the feeders so they would land on it while they fed. Granted, they were used to humans because the feeder was on the back porch, and where my family spent alot of time.
My closest hummingbird moment came when we had our garage door open one day, and a hummingbird was trapped inside between the blinds and a window inside our garage. It grew very tired in the summer heat, I was able to cup it in my hands. I then opened my hands up outside the garage, but it was too tired to fly. So, while it was resting in my hand, I walked it to our hummingbird feeder, where it hopped off my hand, perched on the feeder, rested a couple of minutes while drinking, and then flew away. Such wonderful creatures! i love them.
This is a very special gift that you have. So locely and sweet. I like it. Liz
I’ve had them come right up to me just for wearing brightly colored clothing when they are migrating through. They’re pretty hungry, I guess!
Great photos and story. The owner of a wild bird feed store once said about hummingbirds “If you could fly at 60 MPH backwards, you wouldn’t be afraid of much either!”
As nice as this seems, it is not good for the birds to become in any way reliant on supplementary food from humans. If the supply is suddenly withheld for any reason it can be disastrous for the birds. Creatures living in the natural world are invariably better off without human contact. We have done so much harm so let us not make it worse by means of misplaced kindness, especially for such an egotistical act of wanting to be close to them. Please leave them in peace.
Hummingbirds are awesome! At my grandparents house they have feeders with sugar water in them and if you sit there with your finger on the perches and hold really still, they get used to you and will sit on your finger while they eat. It is one of my most favorite memories!
Wow, that’s amazing. How often can anyone get to experience the hummingbirds on their hands?
my my greatgranmas house there are thousands and it take about 5 min for at least 2 to land on you i had fallen a sleep on her back porch and had 3 on my face lol but good pics
Photoshopped!
hey! strumming-bird…do-do birds are extinct…not hummingbirds…I have seen hummingbirds in every state I have lived in…right now in Florida
that’s awesome! but yup i think i’d get tired of trying after a few minutes, not the most patient of people. luckily, she did it for me!
And CJ is a tool.
I was sitting in my garage and heard a buzzing noise thinking it was a bee. I looked at the window to discover a hummingbird had come into the garage and was flying in front of the window trying to get out. I eventually caught him, and held him for a few moments, long enough to take a picture and let him go.
I can’t begin to gell you how thrilled I was to discover these pictures of the hummingbirds feeding out of hand. Wow!! And the reason I say that is because I’ve been having the best time with my three little hummingbirds here in Kansas!! And one of them imparticular are soo curious about me. A couple of days ago and it zipped past me, it came back and looked at me straight on and moved in a little closer to me, and again, closer. It was about a foot away and then it left. This today…again it stopped to look at me and came closer, and closer, until it was about eight inches from my face. Absolutely amazing…I actually shed tears of joy for this amazing creature. So I thought I would see what I could find about feeding them from your hand. I thought I had glimpsed over an article about that very thing and so my first search today brought me to these amazing pictures. I’m going to try it. My mom told me stories of their hummingbirds on the farm…when my dad would sit on the front porch reading his paper, one little bird would hover back and forth over the top of his paper to see what he was doing.
P.S. hummingbirds are not extinct!!!
Patty
Hi
I love these pictures and adore hummingbirds for a very special reason.
would like to invite anyone who would care to read my true hummingbird story and why I now believe that the heart does go on
please feel free to read my blog
just because you can’t see something does that mean it isn’t there?
R.I.P Danny
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=112736442&blogId=496088489