Butler's Birds

I went down to Tucson on Friday evening for some marathon birding with Robert Mortensen ,   Jeremy Medina , and Geniece Baer. We saw a total...

It strikes again! You can go for years without seeing a bird, or never see it at all. Then, as the British say, you finally break your duck ...

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...