My friend made this hummingbird video a few years ago (MUST SEE!)

[janx]

and now it has almost a million and a half views!

[question everything]

1. Oh, that's precious!

I hope they survived. Wonder whether they stayed in Sedona or eventually migrated south.

Amazing that they were not afraid of him, just staying watching, trusting.

[janx]

2. The Annas stay in AZ (and OR too, for that matter)

all year. They are so amazing--but very hungry and needy re calories, especially in the wind in the winter.

He fed them for years (still does).

I love the fact that they found the heating pad and settled on it.

[Alekzander]

3. Man, you picked a great day to give us all here something so beautiful, thoughtful & kind. Just

want you to know it was appreciated. Also, the music was great & relaxing.

Thanks.

[janx]

4. Life goes on!

And you are so welcome.

[Brother Buzz]

11. Anna's Hummingbirds don't migrate

Although they will leave a neighborhood to search a better food source. We have a lot of shrubbery to support a breeding pair of Anna's most of the year. They used to disappear for a month or so in the dead of winter because of a dearth of food until we hung a feeder. Now they (or their offspring) hang around all year long.

[UtahLib]

5. What a special experience.

Just watching touched my heart.

[janx]

6. Yes, it does that. n/t

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

7. Nice! Hummingbirds are beautiful and amazing.

[StarryNite]

8. Lovely!

Thank you for sharing.

[CajunBlazer]

9. Very cool!

[Dustlawyer]

10. Whenever i see a Hummingbird i think of my dad.

He and my mom lived out in the country. He had congestive heart failure and was stuck at home. He used to go to the library but couldn't anymore. I had tried to get him to use the computer we set up for him but he never tried.

He had a developed a passion for Hummingbirds and had 6 feeders along their long front porch. One day sitting out there with him watching hundreds of them feeding and chasing each other off, an amazing sight you can not imagine, he lamented not knowing if by leaving feeders out during the winter it would cause healthy birds to not migrate and possibly die in the cold. He didn't know whether to leave them for the old and sick or take them in.

I went on his computer for about thirty minutes and came back out on the porch and told him that he could leave them out without fear as the healthy ones would migrate, but it warned that if you did leave them out you had to keep it up all winter for the birds that had to stay. I also told him that I had registered him with the Texas Parks and Wildlife as a volunteer field researcher. He would have to give them information on numbers, dates, times, and what types of Humming birds he saw. I had pictures of the various types and other information. He was surprised that I had gathered all of that information so fast, information he could no longer get at the library. "You got all of that from the computer that quick?" he said. i told him, "Dad, you have the world's biggest library in your back room!" He said, "Show me!" and I did.

In no time at all he had hooked up with his class of 1950 and was trading jokes with old friends who started calling themselves the "Loopers." Should have asked what that mean't, but i guess it is not that important, he was happy again!

[Mickju]

15. Great Story

[Judi Lynn]

12. Too beautiful for words. So tiny, yet they trust him. That warmth has to make such a difference. nt

[Buckeye_Democrat]

13. AMAZING!

I assumed they would be far too skittish to let a person sit so close to them, let alone perch on the person's hand!

Thanks for sharing!

[C Moon]

14. Great! I love the part when Rocky was supervising. :D

[yortsed snacilbuper]

16. Thanks, I see ruby throated hummingbirds around here once in awhile.