Char, your skipper looks like what is called a Sooty Wing (Pholisora catullus) here (indigenous from Texas to Wisconsin to east coast north of peninsular Florida). Is that the same as a Duskywing?
I liked the 'in flight' pic especially.
Haven't seen a Monarch yet, nor Swallowtail for that manner. Of coarse my garden field of vision has been mostly downward the past couple of weeks, pulling weeds.
