Skipper ID please

[richard58]

I hope someone can help me with skipper ID please.

I am continuing to struggle with these wee orange beasts

I believe that the first photo is a Large Skipper but are the remainder Small Skippers or Essex Skippers or some of each?

All photos were taken on 23rd June at the same location in Laindon, Essex.

[bugboy]

Hi. The first one is indeed a large Skipper. The rest are mostly impossible to ID since they are females and therefore we need to see the underside of the tip of the antennae to be 100%. The exception being image number 5 which is a male Essex Skipper (the scent brand is visible) and the final 2 images which looks like female Small Skippers from what we can see of the antennae

[richard58]

Hi bugboy .... belated thanks for your ID suggestions. I have been away for a few days .... a Black-browed Albatross at Bempton Cliffs in Yorkshire was a little larger and much easier to identify than tiny, fast-flying orange-brown butterflies