{"id":13425,"date":"2020-07-02T07:05:36","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T11:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=13425"},"modified":"2020-07-02T07:05:36","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T11:05:36","slug":"another-immigrant-essex-skipper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=13425","title":{"rendered":"Another immigrant: Essex Skipper"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Essex Skipper (European Skipper), Forever Wild Preserve, Kennebunk, Maine, USA \u2014 I am apparently more of a chauvinist than I am aware of…whenever I look up a species that I have photographed and find that it is a non-native species, I am slightly disappointed. This is such a case. I photographed this little skipper on the trail at the Forever Wild Preserve, and had to look it up. It is, according to the Leps artificial intelligence engine, and subsequent research, the Essex Skipper. The Essex Skipper, sometimes called the European Skipper here, was accidentally introduced in Ontario, Canada in 1910, and is now the most common skipper in New England. I have to remind myself that I am a child of immigrants myself before I am ready to make room for the Essex Sipper in the American pantheon…but then I guess that is just human nature. All God\u2019s creatures, great and small. \ud83d\ude42 Sony Rx10iv at 600mm equivalent. Program mode with my custom birds and wildlife modifications. Processed in Polarr and Apple Photos. <\/p>\n

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