A Surprise Visitor

I walked with B (Bom), JohnRH & W, this morning, a favourite walk around the Bayfield Estate in the Glaven Valley.  It was warm and sunny although it clouded over a little towards the end.  I decided that I wanted to 'travel light' so I didn't take my camera with me, so I wasn't expecting to have anything suitable to blip today.  We stopped at the Glaven Bistro for coffee afterwards (whoever thought of iced coffee is a genius!).

M and I were opening up the summerhouse for our lunch when I got home when this beautiful hummingbird hawk moth decided to visit my potted geraniums.  Of course my camera was back inside the house.  I dashed in to get it and happily it was still feeding on the flowers when I returned.  This is only the second time I've ever seen one in our garden and last time I was just focusing my camera when it flew off.  So I was especially pleased to capture it this time, albeit a rather hasty shot.

We actually had the tiniest amount of very fine rain this afternoon, hardly enough to dampen the pavement...more needed please!