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at least 4 individuals seem to have been predated by otters and/or raccoons after a thaw freed a corner of the wetland from ice.
The two thawed areas are two I suspect are springs/seeps. The larger is about 2m x 0.5m in dimension, and has been inconsistently open throughout the winter. It is at the very edge of the shallow beaver marsh where it meets a steep ridge. The water here is 0-12 inches deep.

Caught live with @pkm in pitfall trap during VT Family Forest permitted small mammal survey. Three unicuspids between molars and incisor. About 3g weight, photod in comparison with 3g S. cinereus from the same morning. Much daintier proportions, smaller feet, smaller nose projection, shorter tail with longer bristles, grayer coloration, and lighter below than S. cinereus.

B. asper eating what is most likely Trachops cirrhosus.

Note the Streblid flies still moving on the dead bat.

Check out my paper on this observation here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342792286_When_the_hunter_becomes_the_hunted_foraging_bat_attacked_by_pit_viper_at_frog_chorus

Observation of the same species of bat: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/52429697

Observation of the Streblid flies: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/52430393

Repeated vocalized from under our deck, apparently oblivious to my presence. Listen closely for a second, faint, more-rapid sound - perhaps a foot stomping? A second porcupine was within a couple meters, possibly the individual photographed (27 April, within 30 m of this location).

I made submissions to iNat in 2019, and earlier this season, for a red-backed salamander within, or at the entrance to, this cavity in a yellow birch tree (Betula alleghaniensis).

But this is the first time I've observed two individuals of this species occupying the cavity together. The cavity is approx one meter above the surface of the ground.