Butler's Birds

I had some time after work to go birding by the McCormick Ponds near Scottsdale. Although the bird populations have skyrocketed since I visi...

These are some older photos, taken back in late July of 2011. At the time, I thought I was observing some adolescent Sparrow something or ot...

We left a soggy and stagnant Audubon stuck for 5 days without a favorable wind as he travelled through the Labrador Islands. I can only imag...

Pops and I headed down to the Glendale Recharge Ponds today, with no particular aims or goals beyond having a nice morning full of birds (on...

There are many birds with confusing or even misleading names. The Redhead is not one of them. This mighty handsome duck was one of the few h...

John James Audubon spent all of June 18th aboard the boat, arranging and drawing his specimens as best he could while observing many differe...

Well it took about a month and a half to decide, but the jury has finally reached a verdict on the best Butler Bird of the Year (also know a...

This morning I went out to the Box Bar wildlife-and-walkin'-around area at the Rio Verde, a nice little river running down the east side...

I snuck in a quick bit of birding this evening after work. I have been trying to relocate a Common Yellowthroat I saw a while back (a curren...

I know, a Phoebe is a Flycatcher, but I've always been a sucker for alliteration. Anyway, these two photos were taken in late summer at...