The other day, I was sitting on my balcony and I heard a buzzing sound...I looked up and saw a Hummingbird, buzzing around where the hummingbird feeder use to hang...(I hung it in another place on my balcony this year), as I was watching this little tiny bird buzz around, he came to within a foot of my face and just stayed there looking at me, for a really long time....it was like he was saying "what did you do with my feeder?), then he flew off.
I immediately took the feeder down, put fresh sugar water in it, and rehung it up in its original spot.
I did not see the hummingbird after that...until....
Then a few days later, the hurricane Debby, started coming through our area, the wind and rain was coming down hard, I mean really hard...I wrapped a blanket around my shoulders and stepped out onto my balcony to watch (hoping a tree branch didn't fall down on our cars), I was getting wet from the blowing wind...there were no critters or birds around, they were all hunkering down in their nests waiting for the storm to pass...
As I was standing there, I looked towards my little Hummingbird feeder, and was fucking shocked! There in the midst of blinding rain, very strong winds, was my hummingbird, getting a drink from the feeder. He drank for a long time, the wind and rain and torment of the hurricane did not affect this little tiny bird, at all.....
For some strange reason, I felt connected to that little humminbird...in the midst of the storm, there he was going on with his life, getting a long drink, oblivious to the commotion of the weather.
This is inspiring....so much is going on in this world, so much adversity, hate, violence, global warming wars, etc...people are taking sides, its horrible...but amongst the storm, the tiniest of birds, stood firm and let the chaos go on around him, yet still was himself. Flapping his wings at lightening speed and living his life to the fullest.
We all should take note, we are nothing but the tiniest of mammals in comparison to the vastness of our world and universe...we are no bigger than that tiny hummingbird.
The tiniest of birds, withstood the angst of a huge storm, he flew against winds that should have blown him to kingdom come, yet he navigated the storm with precision and accuracy...fought against the winds and continued to live his life.
When all the other birds were hiding and hunkering down in their nests to avoid the weather and conditions of the moment....the littlest of birds was standing up, flying against the wind and battering rain...a true hero of birds..A giant among the Avian species, fearless!
Humans could take a lesson from this bird....
I named that tiny little hummingbird, "Andre"....a giant among birds, the biggest bird of all, the toughest and most resilient of birds.
S
No comments:
Post a Comment