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OUR FAVOURITE WINNING IMAGES FROM THE 2019 WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR COMPETITION
Our favourite winning images from Wildlife Photographer of the Year 55
HUMMING SURPRISE BY THOMAS EASTERBROOK, UK WINNER 2019, 10 YEARS AND UNDER On holiday with his family in France, Thomas was eating supper in the garden on a warm summer’s evening when he heard the humming. The sound was coming from the fastbeating wings of a hummingbird hawk-moth, hovering in front of an autumn sage, siphoning up nectar with its long proboscis. Its wings are reputed to beat faster than the hummingbirds that pollinate plants in Mexico and Texas. With the moth moving quickly from flower to flower it was a challenge to frame a picture. But Thomas managed it, while capturing the stillness of the moth’s head against the blur of its wings.