Prairie Flowers And a Bonus

The prairie flowers are outstanding this year.  With a prescribed burn in the works for this fall I cannot wait until next year.

Here's a shot of the grassland looking northeast.

And dang if I didn't get a picture of a couple of hummingbird moths sipping nectar from the bergamot.

It's a rare-enough sight to see these curious flying insects.  That darn delay feature on the iPhone camera is plenty of opportunity to miss a rare shot.  Arghhh.

Also called a hawk moth or sphinx moth they belong to the Sphingidae family and are so-named as a consequence of their hovering flight patterns.  Here's some YouTube video...