Hovering Hummingbird Hawk Moth

In the space of 3 hours we photographed 5 of these gorgeous little insects (I deleted 300+ of out of focus, motion blurred or backside views though!).

I have never seen such a huge number, or variety, of moths, butterflies, bees and other bugs all in one patch of flowers.

[Casablanca 🇬🇧]

Wow, I thought it was a hummingbird at first! Awesome photo. Well done!

[Beverley]

this is such a perfect capture... Soo so beautifully done. love it...

[Nigel Rogers]

Fabulous FAV

[narayani]

Amazing!

[haskar]

Well catch. Fav

[Susan]

Quite amazing.

[LManning (Laura)]

What a capture! Bravo!!

[John&Ann]

Wow. Well done . I’ll keep an eye out for them.

[katy]

Fabulous light and the entire composition looks stunning against that dark background

[Marj]

Incredible detail

[KoalaGardens🐨]

oh wow stunning

[Joan Robillard]

Pretty

[Joanne Diochon]

Great capture of that proboscis at work.

[gloria jones]

Splendid capture

[Babs]

Brilliant timing, what a fabulous shot. fav.

[Hazel]

A great catch, Jackie! (I had a lucky time with these one year!)

[Kate]

Awesome

[Keren - Heartside -]

beautifully captured

[Merrelyn]

Great shot Jackie, lovely clear eye and motion blurred wings.

[Jerzy]

So 301 paid off. Love this

[Kate A 🇦🇺]

Wow, look at that movement!

[Jacqueline]

You a star! Brilliant!

[JackieR]

@jacqbb thanks Jan
@kjarn that's 1/1000th sec
@jerzyfotos possibly

@merrelyn fluke, luke and persistence
@heartside thank you
@k9photo I'm chuffed!!

@quietpurplehaze21 2 flying together was just a once in lifetime I think
@onewing thank you, hope you're recovering well x
@seattlite many thanks

@gardencat total fluke!
@joansmor they are
@koalagardens thank you, think they'll become more common here!

@sewfree I got lucky
@grammyn and I've seen real hummingbirds!!!
@jmdspeedy they love Russian sage

@ljmanning thank you so much
@omabluebird I'm pleased
@haskar thank you

@narayani I think they're stunning moths
@nigelrogers many thanks
@beverley365 thank you
@casablanca not as vibrant as the bird

Thank you all so very much

[katy]

@30pics4jackiesdiamond ❤️ yes, yes you have

[Junan Heath]

Fabulous capture!

[Larry L]

Wow! Great capture!