A photographer captured the exact moment a squirrel flew across the water with a walnut in its mouth

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Photographer Dick Van Dujin captured the exact moment a squirrel flew across the water with a walnut in its mouth.

Van Dujin, 34, told Insider that he waited from "sunrise to sunset" and took around 1,000 photos to capture the perfect shot.

He had traveled to a forest in Brabant, a province in the south of the Netherlands, to photograph squirrels as they foraged for nuts to store for the winter.

Van Dujin also went viral earlier this year after he captured the exact moment a squirrel stopped to smell a daisy.

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Photographer Dick Van Dujin captured the exact moment a squirrel flew across the water with a walnut in its mouth.

Dick Van Dujin

Van Dujin, 34, told Insider that he traveled to a forest in Brabant, a province in the south of the Netherlands, to take photos of squirrels.

The photographer wanted to capture squirrels while they were collecting nuts in the forest.

Dick Van Dujin

"The squirrels are looking for nuts and collecting them in autumn," he said.

"When they grab the nut, they will bury it somewhere in the ground so they can dig it up in the winter."

Van Dujin said he was in the forest "from sunrise until sunset" as he waited to capture the perfect moment.

Dick Van Dujin

The photographer estimated that he took "around 1,000 photos" that day.

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