Butler's Birds

The clouds and the chill stayed with us here in Phoenix, despite the best promises of the weather channel that they'd go away. Luckily t...

It's been a week for lost birds! The day after Pops and I observed and photographed (albeit, somewhat poorly) a Lewis's Woodpecker a...

Here are some more recent photos of the Lewis's Woodpecker that's residing at Encanto Park. He's still pretty skittish, but I wa...

Probably my favorite duck, the Northern Shoveler always provides the amateur photographer with the a shovel-ready job. Up to last week I had...

We left off with Audubon the adventurer. While his love of the outdoors and his fondness for drawing birds and observing bird behavior cont...

Northern Pintails are very handsome ducks. They're not too gaudily colored, but are very sleek and elegant looking when they're dres...

Funny duck the Gadwall. They're not especially colorful or elegant, at least as far as ducks are concerned, but they still have their pr...

I saw my first ever Lark Sparrow Wednesday evening outside of work. It was hoping against hope, but there he was the very next morning, out ...

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...