Butler's Birds

I'm ashamed to say that I've run out of new material for the rest of this week. As such, I'm repurposing an old post I did for B...

Finally, after some years of working and waiting and searching and swearing (not too badly), I have seen the Yellow-Headed Blackbird. This b...

The Salt, Gila, and Aqua Fria Rivers come together and form a fantastic birding habitat at the Tres Rios Wetlands in west Phoenix. This teem...

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...