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I am posting on this thread in the hope more members will look and identity this

See first the size of it against the flower and it had extremly fast wing beat. I had to go to 1/8000 of a second shutter speed to even get this.
Seen it around before but got no idea what it is, hopefully someone can tell me

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humming bird moth

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thank you I didn;t have a clue.



I was in the garden doing a focus check with my Nikon D810 and Nikon afs 24-70mmG lens and turned to see this insect.

Tthe wing beat speed was phenomenal is the only way I can describe it,too fast for the human eye

So quickly set up the camera which was on a tripod and fired off several shots on an almost flat battery. On of those times right place- right time- right equipment a rare event for me

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Some superb photos taken in your garden, well done.

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Yes, Hummingbird Hawk moth, we get them here sometimes in the Summer, they love the Buddleia. They do breed here but can't survive our Winters so they go back to Europe.

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hd a litttle time this evening to work up that
photo

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Super photo, RS.

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thank you. Think I am beginning to sort out the focus problems slowly now

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The first time I saw HHM I thought it was a hummingbird ...

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Understanable, you don't normally see this so close up
Saw humming birds in Brazil and they are quite small but entirely different in size, shape and look