I had a flighty visitor today

on my balcony - a hawk-moth, to be more precise, a Hummingbird hawk-moth, according to Wikipedia. It was drinking from my Borage plant's flowers for the longest time, during which I took about 80 pictures of it from various angles and directions! They turned out rather well, so here are six of the best. What an amazing, beautiful and elegant creature!

( Photos behind the cut )

Right, need to very quickly go wash my hair now since I'll be leaving for RingCon in Bonn tomorrow morning. Will make a goodbye post beforehand; in the meantime have a good night everyone!