Our Yard, 12/13/14

With all the cloudy weather around lately, I've spent more time birding than looking for butterflies.  But I hung around the house the past two days and came up with a list of twenty species.  Brazilian Skippers always get me excited till I figure out what they are.  This was a nice one.

This Silver-banded Hairstreak was only the second for our yard.

Our commonest butterfly by far is the Tropical Checkered-Skipper (not counting when the big swarms of Queens are here).

Here's the list from the past two days.

• Cloudless Sulphur 2
• Large Orange Sulphur 2
• Little Yellow 1
• Silver-banded Hairstreak 1
• Cassius Blue 2
• American Snout 1
• Bordered Patch 1
• Elada Crescent 1
• Vesta Crescent 1
• Phaon Crescent 1
• Monarch 1
• Queen 2
• Guava Skipper 1
• Brown Longtail 1
• White Checkered-Skipper 1
• Tropical Checkered-Skipper 8
• Fawn-spotted Skipper 2
• Clouded Skipper 3
• Fiery Skipper 2
• Brazilian Skipper 1