Small eyed Sphinx

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Cool thanks for identifying this. Are these pretty common. We've never seen anything like it and it had beautiful color.

This looks like a Small-eyed Sphinx moth (Paonias myops). Take a look here to compare: http://bugguide.net/node/view/3713