Butler's Birds

The Phoenix birding scene has been buzzing lately with reports of a very uncommon Red-Necked Grebe in Tempe Town Lake. The  lake itself is a...

I couldn't get a single bird photo today. Some heavy dust clouds rolled into Phoenix and blocked out the sun around 5:00 pm--I guess tha...

Gnatcatchers are curious little birds. They seem to be as close as the natural world comes to creating a perpetual motion device and can be ...

Hello Dear Reader, Happy Sunday! Check out my once-a-month guest post over at Birding Is Fun and have a great day:  http://www.birdingisfu...

Why is it that when something is "sub par" it's bad. If you hit under par in golf, aren't you doing really well? Anyway, I...

It's getting the be that time of year (No, not Christmas). The Avocets and Gadwalls are getting their rusty heads. The Quail are startin...

It's been weird winter here in Phoenix. But now signs of spring, like this Avocet's rusting head, are starting to pop up over the va...

Ok, so the Papago Ponds aren't exactly puddles, but they're pretty small. The Desert Botanical Gardens in Phoenix do a great job of ...

Capturing in-flight Swallow shots seems to be one of photography's greater challenges. I'm still not up to it, but I did manage to g...

Burrowing Owls are probably one the top five cutest birds of all time. They're small, they live in prairie dogs burrows (and other excav...