These White Lined Sphinx moths, generically called humming bird moths, love to hang out at the flowers behind my house at night during the summer. They are are a little bit slower and clumsier than real hummingbirds, but still a lot of fun to watch. Kind tricky to get a good focus as you have to wait for one line up with a flower for a split second. I used a flash in order to get the ISO noise down and capture the wing movement. Instead of using a figure 8 like a hummingbird, they twist their wings between the up and down beats to hover.

[joelbolden]

Great capture!!! I'm just starting to see them around here.

[Tonytee]

Wonderful photography. Very pretty and interesting. Well done.


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[foxandcrow]

Great shot.

[bscott]

Very nice and I'm surprised by the color on the wing.

[PancakeFlipper]

Well done, they move fast

[FozzFoster]

These White Lined Sphinx moths, generically called humming bird moths, love to hang out at the flowers behind my house at night during the summer. They are are a little bit slower and clumsier than real hummingbirds, but still a lot of fun to watch. Kind tricky to get a good focus as you have to wait for one line up with a flower for a split second. I used a flash in order to get the ISO noise down and capture the wing movement. Instead of using a figure 8 like a hummingbird, they twist their wings between the up and down beats to hover.

WOW! Nice shot froze the wings. Huge shutter speed !

[bhbrake]

Thanks for the kind words! If these were real hummingbirds, I would have had to triple the shutter speed. For some reason these flowers are the only ones the moths like.

[swip]

Nice.