Collecting data for wildlife studies is an interesting job. During one of my data collection expedition at Nakhon Sawan Thailand, I was sitting in the Research station. We had a baby sun-bird in a cage which was hanging on a tree right outside the office. One colleague of mine found this helpless baby when he dropped from his home. According to her, the nest was attacked by the ants and somehow this baby managed to escape (yes ants can kill baby birds). She put the baby in a cage and started feeding him with bird-food, after two days mom and dad of the baby sun-bird also found him hanging and they also joined us in feeding process (our job reduced to 1/3rd due to the dedication of the parents). We put the baby inside a cage in order to save him from predators. You can see in the video how mom and dad are feeding him. So one day as I was working inside the office, I heard some unusual calls from the sun-birds outside (Birds behavior, especially their calls can be an excellent indicator of the presence of any kind of danger). So, I rushed outside as saw a snake on the tree. It was a Golden Tree Snake (Chrysopelea ornata), which is quite common species of snakes in Thailand. After taking some pics I tried making a video, this is my first try of video shooting wildlife. Enjoy the video in High Definition. In the end, we interfered to save the baby bird from the snake. In nature, we should not interfere but because the baby was inside a cage we had not any other choice. Not a happy ending for the snake but Sun-birds were really happy.
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