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Photo of the day - May 2021

Saw this lil' criminal yesterday eventing during sun set. It's a Canada goose baby I think. At least there were two Canada goose adults running around trying to get a some what family gathering. The little ones didn't care. They had their own agenda.

Canon EOS R5 - Canon RF 100-500mm f/4.5-7.1 L IS USM

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Our newest residents in the neighborhood! Unfortunately these are not the only ones, as there are plenty more of them (thousands! Millions!) who have already arrived and who will be arriving in the Washington, DC and the Mid-Atlantic states area over the next few weeks. What you are seeing are Periodical Cicadas, often called "Seventeen-Year Locusts" because they emerge only once every seventeen years. These guys have laboriously crawled up from underground, and the colorful one on the left is working his way towards leaving his exoskeleton behind while others are still freshly emerging (molting) from theirs. They very quickly acclimate to their new fresh-air environment, turn brown and then black, with rather alarming looking bright red eyes, the better to help them find their way to the nearest tree to climb in search of romance and a mate.

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