Of all people, I am certain that this following little hummingbird legend originally from South America will greatly delight your heart. Done in a Haida Manga style, this cartoon illustrates some more facets of hummingbird medicine...

About 7 years ago, I caught two hummingbird making love: After a solid two weeks of flirting and dancing around each other, they ended up zooming by me as I was standing observing them, forearms and elbows over the mid-height wall that connects to the entrance of my place.

All of a sudden, about six feet away form me stalled the female, hovering about 2 inches from the ground while the male took an hyperbolic turn up to stall about 25 feet off the ground, carefully positioning himself directly above her. He hovered there for a solid 5 seconds or so, my breath motionless.

She was still hovering seemingly motionless too and, wouldn't it have been for the distance form the ground and the sound of her wings, one could have believed that she was either dead or a fake bird. In the space of a wink, he had dropped right into her, without even making her move a iota.

During the miraculous few seconds they spend embracing each other, they formed a perfect 90 degree angle. My jaw hanging, my eyes would have looked about to fall off my face had anyone seen me. Knowing how extremely territorial they are, I felt both privileged and extremely blessed by the event and sharing.

A few weeks later, I noticed what originally seemed like an extra shout coming from the top of the sitka spruce where the male usually perches himself for surveillance. Looking more attentively, I quickly realized the result of their success, a newborn baby hummingbird, still discovering the unexpected pleasures of flying and the difficulties encountered by the presence, now out of the nest, of what we two-legged call wind. What prowess it was to see it weave its way through the air and learning the way of its parents.

Thanks again for sharing. I thought I'd repay some of the goodness you bring to our world with a bit of a story I held in when you posted about hummingbirds last time. ;)

Much blessings, keep your smile, thrive on and namaste! :)