A PHOTO STORY

I Built a Garden for a Humming-Bird Moth

But I had to destroy his old home first. Would he come back?

Not the best view of a Humming-Bird Moth because you cannot see his long proboscis or get any sense of how he hovers, just like a hummingbird.

We bought a view in Cornwall that came with a tired bungalow and garden attached.

The view from our terrace: this is our neighbour’s garden in the foreground. Photo by Author

No one went into the garden because it was hard to access the two lower levels from the top terrace.

The garden I was later to destroy. Photo by author.

It had some odd features:

This was one of the first things I destroyed. Photo by author.

But there was a delightful surprise: a regular visitor to the tired garden was a Humming-bird Hawk-moth. This was my first attempt at photographing it:

Good luck spotting it in this one. Photo by author.

With time, I got closer: