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Nice look at side-entry of Japanese Andromeda/P. japonica flowers, "robbing" nectar. The pollen on thorax hairs is presumably from another flower species since I don't think Colletes buzz pollinate and this is an Ericaceae.

See also another example from same plant: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/202921471

Spores: 10µm, smooth rosey
Sporocarp: 125µm
Sporotheca: 45µm
Stalk: Tapering from 10µm - 2.4µm
Collumella: ellipsodial & tan
Capillitum: none
Substrate: Picea (spruces)

Not the first butterfly species I expected to see this year. I've only seen one of these once before. This will be the 22nd observation of the species in NYC on inNat. Beautiful blue flashes of the wings in flight.

Marine Park Salt Marsh, Brooklyn. Heard from trail, photographed from edge of marsh. Call recorded on cellphone, posted on Twitter: https://twitter.com/elaphrornis/status/1388692244471889932?s=20

[Also in vicinity was a Killdeer, possibly at nest in marsh, last 3 images. Clapper Rail may have had a nest too, not sure.]