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We didn't have much time to stop for insect pics on yesterday's walk, but we made an exception for this Hummingbird Hawk Moth that we spotted in someone's front garden. What a beautiful creature!

Finally finished processing the photos I took in #ChingazaNationalPark, #Colombia on 29 March 2025.

Andean #Condor, Black-chested Buzzard-#Eagle, White-collared #Swift, Tyrian Metaltail, lots of interesting plants and a few nice #moths.

On #iNaturalist:

inaturalist.org/observations?o

Also in this Flickr album:

flickr.com/photos/dhobern/albu

Still hundreds more photos to sort (mainly birds) from my last two days in Colombia.

iNaturalistObservationsObservations by Donald Hobern on March 29, 2025

Here are four of the wonderful insects we saw yesterday at Spurn Nature Reserve. They are all species I've never seen before, which was exciting! I'm especially pleased about this bee-mimic hoverfly, Eriozona sayrphoides, as there are only 96 records of this species on iNat worldwide, and just 32 in the UK. This might be the fanciest hoverfly I've ever seen! And it was lovely, a big beefy cutie who towered over the little marmalade hoverflies on the same plant.

1. Eriozona sayrphoides
2. Eurasian Smoothwing (Scaeva pyrastri)
3. Southern Hawker (Aeshna cyanea)
3. Brimstone Moth (Opisthograptis luteolata)