A newly-excavated Red-bellied Woodpecker cavity has been discovered by a European Starling. The male and female Red-bellied are both visible in this photo and the male is trying to pull the Starling out of the nest by its foot.

Found on a vertical daylily stem after it was just cut down. Caterpillar was still just visible inside. I attached it to this red maple branch (as it finished the cocoon) and put netting around to keep a bird from pecking it. Can observe it many times a day and can remove the netting next spring at breakout time. Any other tree I should put it on after coming out?

Observed a two moons beewolf hunting on shasta daisy plantings in Marsh-Billings Rockefeller formal gardens. Assuming it was a single individual, it attacked, paralyzed and flew off with two bees (one in Genus Sphecodes and one of unknown genus) during an approximate 8-minute period.

A life species for me! This little squirrel was digging seeds out of the snow under the bird feeder. I've thought we might have flying squirrels here because sometimes late at night, we hear the typical sounds of red or gray squirrels racing along the outside of our log cabin walls, but likely not either of those diurnal species.

Photos taken through window glass and screen (left on to prevent window hits).

This record, for now representing the first US occurrence of this species, is submitted on behalf of David Barrington, who discovered this individual while botanizing with Catherine Paris and Elizabeth Thompson. Additional details of the record will be published in an upcoming edition of The News of the Lepidopterists' Society.

This record precedes several others from here in Vermont, including what had been previously considered the first US record (on 15 Sep 2020). All the US iNaturalist records are here: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=1&subview=grid&taxon_id=55641

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