A lifer after all these years…

Hi All,
I retired in October and have had a change of heart in regards to the blog. It mostly had to do with the site and domain renewals costs. So we’re back in business. One of my goals going forward is to make at least a couple of trips out west for butterflies per year as I’ve done very little butterflying out west. I’ve made one trip to the Wasatch mountains of Utah, one trip to south east Arizona (while chasing a couple of birds), One trip to Olympic National Park in Washington and a brief stop in San Diego in April of 2014 while on another birding trip. During the southern California trip I stopped for a couple of hours at a local park on the east side of San Diego. I encountered 6 species, one of which was a Behr’s Metalmark. I had taken a photo of a skipper an label it as a Fiery Skipper. Five years later with more experience across the board I looked through those photos again and they do NOT look like a Fiery Skipper. Instead it looked like an Umber Skipper, a March-October species in that area. As I write this posting snow showers are falling which has me longing already for warmer temps and butterflies.