Butler's Birds

I went to McCormick Ranch on Friday to see who was hanging around the ponds. A few weeks ago the place was swarming with Great Egrets, dozen...

This lovely bird makes for a very challenging identification. The Hammond's and the Dusky Flycatcher are nearly indistinguishable apart ...

The Bewick's Wren is a rather small brown bird with a fondness for underbrush and scrubby foliage. Given these physical aspects of the b...

It's true. They do have exceptionally broad bills for a Hummingbird. It's not the most striking feature in my opinion, but to be fai...

There have been persistent reports of a group of Rufous-Capped Warblers in the Florida Canyon in the Santa Rita Mountains since December of ...

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...