Lew found this hummingbird in the kitchen. It had probably been trapped in there a while; it was catatonic, its chi was ebbing. Its wings were fluffed up in an attempt to get warm. Hummingbirds are perpetual motion machines; they need to be constantly moving and eating to keep up with the high metabolism.
We mixed some agave syrup with warm water and we dipped its beak in it several times. It tilted its head back each time to swallow. Then we put it on a chair in the sun;as it warmed up, its feathers started unfluffing and when we looked a few minutes later, it had taken off.
The scrub jay is so unbelievably blue.
About Lloyd Kahn
Lloyd Kahn started building his own home in the early '60s and went on to publish books showing homeowners how they could build their own homes with their own hands. He got his start in publishing by working as the shelter editor of the
Whole Earth Catalog with Stewart Brand in the late '60s. He has since authored six highly-graphic books on homemade building, all of which are interrelated. The books, "The Shelter Library Of Building Books," include
Shelter,
Shelter II (1978),
Home Work (2004),
Builders of the Pacific Coast (2008),
Tiny Homes (2012), and
Tiny Homes on the Move (2014). Lloyd operates from Northern California studio built of recycled lumber, set in the midst of a vegetable garden, and hooked into the world via five Mac computers. You can check out videos (one with over 450,000 views) on Lloyd by doing a search on YouTube:
Well done, Bird Men! And yes, that is one seriously blue bird! Scrub jays…now I have to look them up, not like 'blue jays' at all.
wow…
Lloyd, since you seem to "capture" so many Hummingbirds, thought this might interest.
http://canadajournal.net/science/scientists-find-fault-hummingbirds-hovering-abilities-20439-2014/
Scientists find fault in hummingbirds’ hovering abilities
etc
Two Brothers Save Bald Eagle From Trap
full video at bottom of article
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/bald-eagle-selfie-sudbury-flethcer-brothers-1.3339880