The other evening Jan was out on the patio reading and watching the hummers, we’ve gone from two to at least four with the migration in full swing. I even installed a second feeder to cut down on the fighting at the first feeder. We can’t see the other feeder from the patio and so we can’t tell if they are using it very much. They continue to fight over the first one. Shortly after Jan had been out she came back in and told me to go out to the patio, that one of the hummers seemed injured. One of the females had been to the feeder and drank, then it flew towards the patio, went up to one of the patio windows, hovered and then just dropped to the floor! I went out and sure enough she was laying on the patio. She hadn’t flown into the window and I’m sure that she didn’t see her own reflection because of the solar screen on the window. I picked her up and she protested, so I knew she was still alive. I put her in the palm of my hand and she just lay there. I didn’t have a clue what to do with her so I just held her and cupped my other hand over her to keep her warm. I watched her and she watched me. After about 15 or 20 minutes I had Jan get some sugar water in a little shot glass and a swizzle stick. We tried to give her some sugar water as a droplet on the swizzle stick by touching the end of her beak but she didn’t act interested. None of which sounded good. A normal healthy bird wouldn’t have just stayed in my hand. But then I just removed my hand completely and she just decided to fly away. I guess we’ll never now what her problem was. This was one of those times in which I didn’t bother to get the camera out of my pocket. I guess I was more concerned about her then getting a picture. I can now say that I’ve held a hummingbird in my hand!