sixlegs's Identifications

With Don Fraser, Clint Gibson, and Alan Schmierer, whom we met yesterday. Alan is a birder/butterflyer from northern California who is seeking photographed lifer butterflies. Today, we were hoping for Neamathla Skipper, Dukes' Skipper, and Dotted Skipper -- and we got all three! These are my cell-phone photographs, so all are GPS-accurate. We started at the thistle pond along Rattlesnake Camp Road, then stopped at a few spots along Scrub Island Road, then various spots along 3 Bridges Road. We started at 0930 and ended at 1530. I never filled out a listing for today in my field notebook! The weather at the start was sunny and in the 80s. The weather at the end was sunny and in the low 90s, with a "feels like" temperate at least in the high 90s.

On a personal note, I began the day with 19,937 Research-Graded records in iNaturalist. I took perhaps more photographs of "easy" species today to ensure that I get to 20,000 RG records tonight ... or maybe tomorrow morning. I would like to know precisely which record is #20,000.

I will post my camera photographs within the next week or so; I have 765 to sort through and mostly cull.