No pix, it all happened so fast.
No, really.
I was sitting in the Zombie Mancave™, an airplane hanger-like metal structure that is about 16 feet high in the center, this afternoon, enjoying tunes and contemplating the loss of my job: today was the last day.
It is very sunny and hot today and more so sitting in a metal building like an idiot. But I like it. It has a 14 foot wide roll up door at one end and that makes a huge opening in which it is basically being outdoors.
That door lets in every thing nature has to offer. A snake came slithering in the other night during a downpour; box turtles wander in and all sorts of flying things up to starlings.
Today a hummingbird flew in and got confused and panicked. It was flying all around, looking at the light reflecting off the steel of the building but getting trapped at the back.
It's about 100 degrees in the back of the Mancave and the poor bird is back there crashing around. Finally it lands on a tiny bolt sticking out of the ceiling. I decided to open the roll-up door fully and shut off the lights to help. Bird stayed confused.
I decided to yell at the bird, and chided it that even bugs figure it out. No good.
Bird finally falls out of the air to the ground having what I can only imagine to be heat stroke or something like that.
I grabbed a nearby washcloth (been washing cars) and as gently as a ruffian like me could scooped the bird up, snatched a bottle of water and dashed out to a shady part of the lawn. I laid it down in the grass, belly down and wings spread. It looked at me and blinked and just laid there.
I poured water all around it, some on the beak and some on the tail. I waited and watched. It just laid there.
Then it drank!
Then it just laid there.
Freak out a little: OMG!
I chided the bird again: "I tried, dammit".
I poured more water around it and stuck my finger under its belly. It just looked at me.
Suddenly it just took off, an explosion of wings and water spray in my face. It made a chirpy noise and flew off like it was supposed to.
Victory!
(Now I'm a veterinarian! Woooo!)