This and the one above are my first Silver-spotted Skippers of the season. They are quite common around here and you will see lots of them once you get used to them. The difficulty is that many of the skipers have dull coloration and chunky, hairy bodies and the novice may mistake them for moths. Moths tend to have long, tapered antennae, often with hair, while skippers have crooked antennae like hockey sticks, and the antennae of true butterflies are usually cylindrical with a small knob on the end.

Like many skippers I have seen, and unlike most true butterflies, they tend to perch with the forewings extended and the hindwings folded over their bodies. This can confuse an inexperienced observer because you will see the upper part of the forewing and the under part of the hind wing and this is not the way they are pictured in the field guides. This one shows the eponymous silver-white marking on the under side of the hindwing. Compare it to the one above.