That's just lovely! Quite fantastic!Beyond wrote:About 5 minutes of Humming bird video, including eating out of hands, in Alaska.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUEZkwJulBY
Great tit. Photo: Raghuvanshi Rajesh
I couldn't help it. I held out my hand, even though I had nothing to offer. Sure enough, the bird landed in my hand! But it flew away immediately, as it realized that I had no food to give it.
I got an attack of acute bad conscience, so I started bringing some old bread with me when I went out so that I could offer the birds some, if I came across another one who wanted me to feed it. After a couple of weeks, when I was walking through that park again, a saw a great tit again and thought it was the same individual. I quickly reached into my bag of shredded bread and held out some crumbs to the bird. Even though it was a great tit and would have preferred some fattier food, it nevertheless flew down to me and took the bread crumbs out of my hand.
What was so special about it is that I have never seen birds as small as great tits eat out of people's hands in our public parks.
Ann
today she surprised me and walked right through a puddle on the drive! 
I did a double take as the water in the puddle was at least an inch deep! (my drive has some issues from tree roots) 
