Hoary Edge Achalarus lyciades

Related to the Cloudywings, it doesn't much look like one. Always looked more like a Silver-spotted Skipper gone slightly off. That back hindwing looks powdered or dusted up. This is a fast and bouncy skipper that likes breaks in the woods, especially old roadways with tall vegetation along the road. I find them often perched up on the leaf tops in those breaks. Flushed, like the Silver-spots, they will fly down and back and land near the same leafy perch. Open-winged, they will fool you into thinking they are Silver-spots.

That is his rock. And he doesn't want to discuss it. I stopped beside this perch and he just kept coming back to it. At one flight he almost decided that the top of my head was a better spot and then he changed his mind.