Okay, maybe this won't get posted as it isn't a bird, but I thought it was worth a try. At dusk tonight, what I thought was a small hummingbird buzzed my wife and me repeatedly at our house in west Littleton and then proceeded to feed on our hyssop, exactly like the hummingbirds have been doing. Only after putting the binoculars on it did we realize it was an insect! Thank goodness for Google, which promptly helped us identify it as a white-lined sphinx moth.
-- I don't know how I've missed seeing one of these in Colorado after many years, but the impressive similarity to a hummingbird really resonated with us!
Bryan and Kristin Arnold
Littleton, JEFFCO, 5,500'
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