I had a flighty visitor today

[ourdramaqueen]

on my balcony - a hawk-moth, to be more precise, a Hummingbird hawk-moth, according to Wikipedia. It was drinking from my Borage plant's flowers for the longest time, during which I took about 80 pictures of it from various angles and directions! They turned out rather well, so here are six of the best. What an amazing, beautiful and elegant

Comments

[samena]

Beautiful! What an extraordinary creature. And such beautiful pictures! What a lucky coincidence that you saw this moth.

Have a good trip to Bonn tomorrow! I hope you'll have a wonderful time. Say hello to Mark for me. ;)

[ourdramaqueen]

Very lucky! At first I went "HUH, WTF?!" because this moth is about as big as my little finger!

LOL sorry I didn't get an occasion (apart from only seeing this after I got back. ;)

[lisabellex]

What an incredible little creature. I haven't seen one of these before, so thank you for sharing your lovely pictures.

:)

[ourdramaqueen]

We don't have these moths here very often, so yes, a very special event. :)

[claudia603]

wow, that creature is amazing! Have a fantastic trip!

[ourdramaqueen]

It is - it's as big as a colibri! And thanks, it was good! :D

[forestrane]

I'm so glad you got a picture of it, and shared it. I have never seen anything like it, but I can see how it got it's name.

Great pics.

[ourdramaqueen]

It's amazing! :)

[primula_baggins]

And it's a moth! It does look like a hummingbird. These are excellent photos. It can't have been easy to catch the little thing with it moving about so quickly.

Have fun at Ringcon.

[ourdramaqueen]

Well it would usually hover over a certain flower a while, to get all the nectar it could, so that's when I had to snap away. I'm very pleased with the pictures too, thanks. :)