What you saw was probably a hawk moth. Go to enature.com and look it up. Bill At 10:15 PM 12/28/2003, Dale Pederson wrote: >Not knowing what I saw has bothered me since last fall. When I was >sitting out side in the late evening I witnessed the visit of a >hummingbird, feeding on a geranium, that I cannot identify. It was half >the size of a rubythroated hummer. On it's back appeared stripes running >crosswise of it's boby. At first I thought it was a large beatle than I >saw a tiny beak it was inserting in the flower to feed. We fed many >hummers during the summer and they had already left to migrate. Can you >tell me what I have seen.
William Bruins [email protected] Rochester, MN on the Zumbro River in Olmsted County, SE MN
