I took the morning to do some photo editing and managed to finally clean my SD card. But a weak front went through yesterday and sometimes those will shuffle the butterflies around and new stuff can pop up. And Mark and Joanie Hubinger found an ultra rare One-spotted Prepona at Santa Ana NWR yesterday which was not refound. But if one shows up so can another. So I eventually wound up at the National Butterfly Center again for a fifth day in a row. Got my first Great Purple Hairstreak for the year.
Still a few straggler Red-lined Scrub-Hairstreaks around. I guess that's what this is.
Peggy found my first Caballo (Potrillo) Skipper for the year.
And then I looked down and there was another Northern Faceted-Skipper (Malicious Skipper) right next to me. Apparently it had been found earlier by Dennis Vollmar but I had not been watching the alerts. With the recent Nick Grishin et al splits, everything seems to have two names these days.
More warm weather ahead for the next few days.
