Butler's Birds

While looking through my field guides, I always found the Lark Sparrow to be one of the most beautiful and intriguing of the emberizids . Al...

The Gilbert Water Ranch provided the setting for another excellent day of birding with some good pictures, some bad pictures, some easy IDs,...

It is overcast and rainy today, and by all accounts will stay so for the rest of the day. I was planning to go down to the Gilbert Water Ran...

Maria and I received a wonderful belated wedding present from her great aunt and uncle this autumn in the form of John J. Audubon's jour...

Visit any Phoenix pond between October and May, and you're likely to see 3 kinds of waterfowl. Mallards are year-round residents and are...

It was a great Thanksgiving week! Maria's family came down from Pennsylvania to visit, and so with them we shared the natural beauty of ...