Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Was it really a hummingbird?






The other night I was making dinner - Pork roast with injectible marinade (you know the stuff that comes with a hypodermic) and Homemade Black beans and rice - yum - anyway I went out to check on the meat and had the camera as I was going to blog about my indirect cooking method on the grill. I came around the corner and what should I see but a tiny whirring set of wings in the plumbago.




I was out there so long taking pictures that Mike poked his head out, "What are you doing out here?"

Doesnt the Plumbago look nice against our house? It matches our old fashioned sky blue aluminum siding and makes it look almost stylish. Anyway what do you think? A hummingbird?


3 comments:

Unknown said...

That doesn't look like any hummingbird I've ever seen, but I live in Ohio...

Maggie said...

It looks more like a huge moth than a hummingbird. But I'm from Michigan, too, and I hope to goodness there aren't any moths that size in our state!

Anonymous said...

It looks like a hummingbird moth. Here's a link with pics and descriptions. If you do a Google Image search on "hummingbird moths" you can find much, much more:

http://www.birds-n-garden.com/hummingbird_moths.html