In Memory of My Hummingbird

This post is in memory of my beautiful little hummingbird who.....

died yesterday.  She/he was with us since we moved into this house and I think she or he was about five years old.

 She was very tame.

She kept guard over the feeder.

She was at the deck on the rope each morning.

She let you walk up to her.

Her beautiful body has been donated to the Swan Lake Nature House for them to use for education with children.

At Swan Lake they quick freeze the body of the bird and then they take it out and arrange the wings stretched out as if they are flying.  So she will fly forever.

 We called her Nancy.

She was an Anna's Hummingbird and she stayed here all winter.  They even have their babies in the winter months.

She had tiny feet.  So pretty.

 At first she was just a baby.

I found her in the morning just under the rope she slept on, I took her inside and called the Wild Arc and they said I was doing everything that one could do.

These are all pictures of her and the various family of hummingbirds at the feeders.

 She was my best friend even though I got angry with her for attacking other hummingbirds. I will miss her constant presence in my yard and my deck.  She lived with me in the house for a day as she went into torpor. I did everything I could to get her to come out of the deep sleep of torpor but she stayed beside me in a box all day, moving her wings a bit and her heart was beating and when I left and went upstairs for about twenty minutes and came back she had died after I left her alone. I had tried giving her sugar nectar with an eye dropper but she could not eat. The vet had thought she would die right away but she stayed with me for the whole day.  At least she was in a warm box in the warmth of the house with soft blankets. There had been some fighting with other hummingbirds at the feeder the day before so I guess she got injured or was just too old to live.

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