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I saw this cute beetle walking along, and then it started doing little wing-assissted jumps.

A video I took today.

I think this is an eastern chipmunk. I photographed it in eastern Canada a few days ago.

IIRC, the second of these three images is unedited, but I edited pictures one and three to boost the colour, contrast, etc. a bit. Anyway, I recently photographed this nice lion's mane jelly in shallow water a few days ago.

I photographed this pretty little pigeon going for a drink at the edge of a pond - in the second picture, you can see them sticking their face in the water. I mean, I assume they were drinking, but maybe they were pecking at something in the water that looked edible, IDK.

I photographed this crow recently, and the wind ruffled its feathers in one shot. I was surprised how light the disturbed feathers look in the first picture.

I would love to know exactly what species I have here!

I know that many of us, myself included, have blue shrimp. I thought you might want to see the two blue lobsters I saw yesterday, since they look like the big cousins of our little pals. These guys are very rare - I was told that only about 1 lobster out of every 2 million is born blue. Due to my work, I am often around seafood, and yesterday I saw these blue guys in two different establishments. They are so rare that they will not be killed - they are kept alive to show off to visitors. When tourist season ends in the fall, they will be released, alive, back into the sea. At least one place does it that way, and I assume the second place has a similar policy (they said they won't kill it so I assume they'll release it). Besides, there's a superstition that killing a blue lobster is bad luck, whereas letting one crawl over a lobster fisher's boat will grant that fisher good luck.

According to iNaturalist's automatic ID system, it's likely a western dusky slug.

According to iNaturalist, it's a tree swallow.

This pair of Canada geese seem to be nesting in this pond in a public park. Nesting on a little island in the pond should help keep the eggs and hatchlings safe!

It hangs out in a wooded area at the back of a public park.

I posted some photos of Canada geese around this small pond nine days ago, and I said that I didn't usually see them in town like this (they seem to prefer the countryside). I assumed they were just stopping at the pond, which is home to ducks year-round, on their way to some other body of water. However, they seem to be hanging around, so maybe they are going to stay here and raise some chicks! I hope so, as I think they're pretty cool.

I went back to this pair of mallards with my new zoom lens. They're so fun to photograph!