Not a bird, not a plane ...
... not a butterfly, not a moth. It is a caddisfly, one of the Trichoptera.
Olympus Stylus 1s, 42mm, ISO160, f5.6, 1/160s
Many larvae of caddisflies are aquatic and dress themselves: they use silk to make protective cases of gravel, sand, twigs, and other things they find, and can look like this:
Photo by Kristian Peters, from Wikimedia Commons, under a CC BY-SA 3.0 license
Or this:
Photo by Ashley Pond, from Wikimedia Commons, under a CC BY-SA 2.5 license
Not the prettiest of flying insects, but the larvae are quite interesting.
The larvae looks like it isn´t larvae, rather it is a living thing that has folded its 51 appendages carefully around its body as a shield.
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I now the larvae well, because they are very good for fishing.
A whole formerly unknown part of reality opens up for me, again.
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Will do so!
if you want fly then see a bird during flight