This is my favourite photograph from my trip to Mexico because I almost didn't get it.

I was on a birding tour led by our fantastic guide, Alejandro Martinez, when we left a private property way up in the mountains.
Alejandro had closed the gate but after humming and hawing,
I asked if I could return to photograph the bloom on a banana tree that we had passed,
as I have a seven foot banana tree in my home and I had never seen the bloom.
When I returned to it, this beautiful hummingbird was also there!
Thank you Alejandro!



And, here is the banana tree to add greater perspective.