A few months ago I found a Royal Tigertail dragonfly (a lifer for me and possibly my favourite observation) and this mosquito was in the picture as well!
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/258716984
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Any chance that might be another duck or a Canada goose bent down in the grass instead? “Hind leg” = neck and head, “tail” = extended wing?
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Hmmmmm… because I was baffled at the color changes being canine…
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Y’know, you may be on the right track—which would explain why my brain hit the ‘ignore’ filter. 
Awesome! Thank you both for bringing your eyeballs and expertise to the conundrum. 
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Actually I looked again and it looked like a standing goose, two legs and the low belly, tail on the right… and I thought " if that was a coyote or fox those birds would’ve known…"
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Tiny mushroom peaking from under shield lichen..
Lichen: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/290798894
Mushroom: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/290799205
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Found a springtail in my slime mold observation
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There is a bee (or beetle?) butt sticking out of this columbine flower! I never noticed it until another user pointed it out to me
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Wow, that is so tiny. It took me longer than I would care to admit.
I had already put up the photo as observations of moss and of fungi before I noticed it :D
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That is to funny to look at after your narration :)
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Thank you - I’m so glad to know I didn’t just make myself laugh! (-:
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You know, my example isn’t as colorful, and i just love nature photos, but when i saw the snail a couple of hours later, i felt sad that hadn’t seen or photographed it right away
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Two weeks ago took some pictures of a Helichrysum and it wasn’t till I got back home that I found out I had a pretty picture of a tree cricket…
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Wow, I got another one! And, like the first one I posted in this thread, it is from my shells found in Ecuador. This observation was identified as a tellin, Eurytellina rubescens:
But now an identifier has come along and commented:
los 4 rosados - Eurytellina purpurea
los 2 amarillentos - Psammobiidae
Which is to say that only the four pink ones are Eurytellina, while the ones with a yellowish cast are not only in a different genus, but a different family!
I’m really happy about this because I lost my camera during that Ecuador trip and so the only photos I have from there are shells that I had brought home and could photograph later. I thought it was only two kinds, but now we’re up to four.
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