Spring azure butterfly or Celastrina argiolus

Spring Azure casualty
showing it's bright blue dorsal wing color

Spring azure butterfly
nectaring on Waterleaf - Celastrina argiolus lucia

Spring azure probing for salts from my boot

Spring azures
congregating around bird droppings for salts

Spring azure butterfly
and cuckoo bees nectaring on black hawthorn

Spring azure butterflies
extracting salts from coyote scat