Just seen a moth wizzing round the garden, it had a long nose/bill type poity bit and seemed to hover like a humming bird.. Any ideas wot it is?

Hummingbird hawk moth, funnily enough.

baby robins do that too.

I've just seen a platypus with a sort of duck bill? Any ideas?
🙂

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/factfiles/3063.shtml

i thought I saw a hummingbird a little while ago. i'd seen the size, the hovery flight, beak thing out front.

I got all excited, followed it to see it land, and it turned out to be a stag beetle.

Maybe you can see from this how I might have been fooled, but maybe not!

just looked it up and indeed it is a hummingbird hawk moth 🙄

big f&%kers aren't they?

Hummingbird Hawk Moth indeed. I took this photo in the Pyrenees last year. I didnt realise they could be spotted in the UK though!

global warming dudes. warmer summers apparently

Last time I saw a Hummingbird Hawk Moth must be around 25-30 years ago. Global warming? Per-lease, the planet's been cooling for several years.

Global warming? Per-lease, the planet's been cooling for several years.

Reeeeeeeally? Well that's great news. You should probably notify The Royal Society of your findings.