I am preparing this post on my Xoom tablet, as an experiment, since I am wondering if I have to take my laptop on vacation next week. And of course that is not the only different thing about it. Generally my Wings on Wednesday posts are birds. 🙂

This is, unless I am mistaken, a Silver Spotted Skipper. I have always said butterflies are hard to learn in New England since you don’t see the numbers or the variety you see in, say, the Rio Grand Valley, but when attempting to identify this one I discovered that there are in fact a lot of different skippers in Maine.  That was after, of course, I figured out it might be a Skipper. I have a lot to learn.

I especially like the light in this shot…how the sun and shadow conspire to show off the Skipper.

Nikon Coolpix P 500 at 810mm equivalent field of view, f5.7 @ 1/320th @ ISO 160. Program.

Processed in Lightroom for Clarity and Sharpness. Cropped slightly to show the beasty to better advantage.