nature changed its mind in two minutes

[zulu_ottawa]

Ten minutes ago I had to climb onto the roof and rescue a wee hummingbird that bashed into my window. It was a beautiful, tiny, iridescent green one - I put it in a box and gave it some sugar water. It seemed to perk up (flew out of the box, weakly), flapped about a bit, blinked and breathed shallowly; but two minutes ago it died. *cries*

Ah, the natural world. How awfully sad.