Butler's Birds

Being Green is difficult. These days, the average American is assailed on all sides by his government, his neighbors, his children’s sch...

I'll be working on a sort of self-exploratory essay these next couple days about birding, be it a hobby or a lifestyle, and its socio-po...

This Saturday was another trip between the Desert Botanical Gardens and the McCormick Ponds. The DBG had its usual residents on display, and...

A small and spunky bird found over much of the U.S., the Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher has become a bit of a nemesis bird for me to photograph. I fi...

The Red-Shafted Flicker is the prominent western species of Northern Flicker . As with the Gilded and Yellow-Shafted, it can be hard to actu...

The Gilded Flicker is one of three Northern Flicker subspecies, and is found only in the southwest. It sports the red mustache of the Red-Sh...

I enjoy bird identification quizzes, or rather I enjoy the idea of them. Since I usually do pretty poorly, I guess I also find them frustrat...

These last several months of birding have been fantastic. New species, photographs, and wonderful experiences have abounded with the burgeon...