Someone posted something on here to suggest they have been more common this year. I think I would have noticed them in the last couple of years since working from home, which I was never allowed to do before 2020 when I would have missed them.
That's good @Dave Humby, I don't know why it's not occurred to me to just film! I did manage to get a couple of better pics yesterday, but I put them on the insects of the day thread.
Are they becoming more common or are we just noticing them more?
They come over from Europe, so the numbers vary, but yes someone said it's a good year for them this year - maybe it was too hot on the mainland even for them!
ooo, I just saw a HBHM - little, with bright coral wings. I went in to get my camera and I sadly scared it away. I think it's the first I have seen in my garden, but I am paying more attention these days and have better ID skills, so, who knows? I think it was after my Clematis Alba Luxurians which is just starting to flower. This will be its first proper flowering season and it will be interesting to see what life it pulls in. I partly planted it for wildlife. I thought I had managed to kill the plant but now I see it far away from where I was looking, emerging from the middle of a climbing rose.
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https://youtu.be/VnstG6zTneA
I don't know much about them, there goes an hour looking on the interweb. 😄
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hummingbird