Help! Very Young Humming Bird - experience?

[pdpbison]

Tonight ( well, Thursday night) just before midnight, got-a-call, a gal had found a very young Hummer on the ground, in an area that has Night and Day Cats and small Dogs, her small Dog was sniffing something so whe went to look. Little Juvenile Hummer, just standing there on the ground, not a flier yet. Anyway, she got my number from an all night Vet here, and called and brought the little one over.

It wanted to perch and nap so I let it perch on my finger a while till I got a cramp in my hand, then got it set up in a screen cage on a small folded terycloth, in a Cage with drapes over it. They are endothermic by this age, and he is fully fledged but looks young to me anyway. I set a heating pad, covered in a towell, on the Cage bottom and have it on low, his little cloth is on that. Wings blurr when he adjusts his perching, but is tired so I let him sleep after a few sips of some protean-sugar-soup in a needle-less 3 mL syringe into whose small opening on the end I gently allowed his Beak tip to go a few times. So...

Anyway...

Anyone here have any experience with these?

I know they technically Hybernate every night or else they starve to death overnight. come daylight he will be HUNGRY...

Oddly, I have some decent info on what to feed him...but nothing about "how" to feed him. I know how to feed younger ones, who gape, by useing a very small Catheter directly into their Crop, and as their skin is transclucent at that age and they have no Feathers, and as they are very willing to in effect gape up and around the Catheter so it goes down in there from their doing it almost, that is actually fairly easy...but this one is older and has a longer Beak and full feathers...and I do not know if this one shall gape. His Beak is about an inch long and his size in Feathered mass is about the scale of the last joint of one's little finger, with a little tail and 'Penguin' Wings of course...and tiny feet. Hummers do not walk supposedly, but may only fly or perch or stand.

Any advise would be much appreciated...I shall be seeing about possible local rehabbers tomorrow who I have heard of that might have some experience with Hummers...but, who knows what if anything shall come of that...

If anyone can post an image on here, I can make and e-mail one to them tomorrow. From what I know I would guess he is about 20 days old or so, maybe a little more. should soon be ready to do some flying anyway.

I would conside to try and return him to his Nest area tomorrow but for worries about the Dogs and Cats which are supposed to be all around there...so...

I do not know how to post an image here, so, for that matter, if someone wished to let me know how, feel free to e-mail me at pdp1@earthlink.net...

Thanks all!

Nighty night...I am bone tired...off to bed now...

Another Day in Bird adventures...!

God Bless them...

And all of you as well...


...sigh...

Phil