On the trunk of a standing, living American beech.
KOH extractacble pigments dark orange.
13 days since my last Merlin sighting; it will be interesting to see if there are other sightings as we get deeper in breeding season.
Male with second of two Northern Italian Wall Lizards I saw him carrying within 13 minute span. Looked like he flew out of cemetery with prey: taking to mate?
Lizard observed separately: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/201720916