Comments on: Deer Touch https://thomastrock.com/deer-touch/ Mountain Cathedrals: The Outdoors From a Different Perspective Tue, 15 Jul 2025 23:35:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Thomas https://thomastrock.com/deer-touch/#comment-558 Mon, 11 Jul 2016 19:17:55 +0000 http://thomastrock.com/?p=454#comment-558 In reply to Rocky.

Hi Rocky,

Thanks for the comment.

I have tried to get birds at our feeder to land on my hand but no luck. Been very close, and have been about eyeball to eyeball with them, but none have landed on my hand.

Yet.

Except – I have had many hummingbirds land on my fingers when I put them on the feeder perch. Talk about tiny! The hummers also liked to buzz about four inches in front of my eyes and hover for a while as I felt the wind from their wings on my face. A bit unnerving, as they do have a rather sharp beak and like to dart this way and that.

This happened years ago as I must have lived in a migration route for hummingbirds or something. I still treasure the memories as there were several dozen hummers around at any given time of the day. Getting them to land on my fingers was something I never grew tired of.

]]> By: Rocky https://thomastrock.com/deer-touch/#comment-557 Mon, 11 Jul 2016 18:19:40 +0000 http://thomastrock.com/?p=454#comment-557 There isn’t much that is more humbling than to have direct contact with a wild animal. Somehow my sister got wild birds to come to her hand to pick up peanuts. She took me on the path into the forest so I could witness it myself. Even as a first time visitor, I had both chickadees and red breasted nuthatches land on my hand to take a peanut. They felt like postage stamps with claws. If you closed your eyes, you could tell which one was on your hand by the feel of their toenails. God created them a bit differently, for their own purposes. Thanks for sharing another marvel.

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