Pet hummingbird?

That is so neat! I have feeders and each year I have a 'family' return to visit. I have had them land on my red hat but never had anything like that. One thing I HAVE noticed is that they are not too afraid of people.
 
Fountain E. Conner said:
We have feeders every year. Hummingbirds are pretty agressive. When my wife and I eat on the back deck the "boss bird" will challenge us for our right to be there.

They can be VERY territorial, dive bombing each other and defending feeding patches.

One year I taught a course in Tropical Ecology in Belize and we saw both sabrewings (largest hummingbirds) and manakins (second largest). The sabrewing came down a river about 50 yards wide and we could hear him approaching from way off, as well as while he fed on the other side of the river. The manakin was feeding on a bush, while we waited to leave for the airport. The manakin was about the size of a dove and the sabrewing was larger=about the size of a mockingbird. BTW: We saw southern mockingbirds (different from our northern mockingbirds) and they didn't look anything like ours but they were instantly recognized as such.
 
Translation from Portuguese
Hey, come, come, come, come here, we’re going to film here, come here, here, just here, let’s talk close up [to the videographer], see? That’s it. And, wait, come here, here now, [?], that’s it, just look, come here, come here, that’s it, that’s it, let’s go back to the video camera, there, s/he’s filming, s/he’s filming, that’s it, you sit on my finger, [?], look at that, he spends all day calling for me, shamelessly, he comes and circles and circles and circles me, I’ve been letting him call me for half an hour now, this is the grown son, his mother introduced him to me here, and left him here on my windowsill there, and he’s used to this now, he comes calling for me here all the time, all the time, right?, so, that’s right, sit on my finger, come here, come here a little longer, sit here, come, come, come, that’s it, a little longer, to take advantage of the filming, do you see?, right there… that’s right, drink, right close to the camera, you don’t want any more? You don’t? I’ll put it away. Now. It’s put away. [He covers the feeder.] I leave it covered there, and he comes all the time, flying around me, calling, calling, and I get it, I come here, and I serve him.
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My father-in-law put out a hummingbird feeder. One day he was working in his garage workshop with the door open. A hummer came in and flew around his head till he went to look at the feeder, which was empty.
 
toysoldier said:
My father-in-law put out a hummingbird feeder. One day he was working in his garage workshop with the door open. A hummer came in and flew around his head till he went to look at the feeder, which was empty.

The almost exact same thing happened to me in the garage. Except the hummingbird came into the garage, got about 5ft(+/-) away and hovered(looking at me eyeball to eyeball), flew out of the garage and then came back and did the same thing all over again. I went outside to the feeder and found that it was empty.
 

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