I think this might be a Forage Looper (Noctuidae:Caenurgina erechtea) but a web search has shown quite a lot of variation, so I'm afraid it will end up being one of those that can't be ID'd just from a picture. I spotted a picture in Covell on one of his black-and-white plates that looked something like this. I did a web search for Caenurgina and decided that it was perhaps the Forage Looper. Some pictures show a gray color but others show a brown color much like this.

This was in a small fen with a variety of sedges, grasses, cattails, a mix of deciduous and conifer trees. Outside the fen is a residential area of a small village. Unlike most day-flying moths this one let me get quite close. This picture has not been cropped, so figure the camera was just a few inches away from the moth. It's about an inch long (no ruler!). The picture was taken about 1PM.