Butler's Birds

The sun is up, the snow is starting to melt, and the birds are coming out here in New Hampshire. The first and most flamboyant representativ...

My stay in New Hampshire has been wonderful. There is little that strengthens the body and soul better than relaxing with family in beautifu...

Poor Audubon. He had a talent and a love for ornithology, and he had a happy marriage. But from the end of the War of 1812 to the early 1820...

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...