Butler's Birds

My usual Saturday birding was cut short before I got any bird photos. Hopefully I can fit some compensatory birding in this week. In the mea...

This proudly plumed Cormorant was looking for some attention, or at least some other Cormorant attention (it didn't hang around me for v...

By and large, the best birding and photography is done in the morning. The birds are active, the lighting is good, there are less other peop...

If you live in the Phoenix area, you'll get it eventually. Maybe it's the rush-hour traffic. Maybe it's the absurdly hot March a...

When I was an angst-y junior high student, Paint It Black  by the Rolling Stones was one of my favorite songs. The song is still cool...I du...

But for its slightly larger size and duller whites, the Hutton's Vireo seems to resemble the Ruby Crowned Kinglet in every way. The King...

...is no longer very strong in these Turkeys. Calling these Turkeys wild is probably too generous. This rafter of about a dozen birds main...

There is an infamous intersection out west of Phoenix. No, it's not some old ghost town or copper mine or the site of a wild western sho...

For some reason The Society for Putting Things on top of Other Things  was always one of my favorite Monty Python sketches: Often times wh...

Part of the joy of birding is that birds come in all kinds of different sizes, colors, shapes, and shades. The avian kingdom seems to posses...