With the heat of summer on and bird migration over it's time to switch to butterfly mode and fire up the blog. This morning at Santa Ana NWR I found this Red-bordered Pixie, my first of the year, nectaring with Celia's Roadside-Skippers in a blooming ebony near the entrance to the visitor's center.
I decided to walk around dry Willow Lake and was surprised to find two Texas Powdered-Skippers under the large ashes on the west end.
Here's a pretty Southern Broken-dash.
And a tiny Southern Skipperling.
This Mimosa Yellow was in the shade just like it's supposed to be.
