My yard always seems filled with hummingbirds in the Spring. They feed from the huge Salvia bushes in the back and my neighbor upstairs has a feeder for them. They always make nests in places where we have to walk through to get from one place to another - and then they are bothered and they make a new nest elsewhere. But this year, Mama H made her nest right by my back window and made it very clear that she knows who I am and she will tolerate me. I would look out the window and she would be right there in my face, beating her little wings, and reminding me to not pull anything fancy. And she let me walk by without moving her nest this year. So I got to watch a little baby hummingbird be born and grow. I watched it groom itself and flap its wings to get ready to fly away. And then one day it was gone. It almost broke my heart.
But then a couple days later, when I was out working in the yard, both the mama and baby got right in my face and lit on a branch next to me and let me hang out for a minute with them. It was the most beautiful thing that Ive experienced in a very long time. And with that moment came a mama sparrow with her baby - and they both lit on a branch next to me as well. I felt like the princess in a Disney movie. I felt like I had been allowed to join a special club.
