Butler's Birds

Hopefully not, but it would be pretty fun. This Mallard family was quacking it up in the canal near work. Oddly enough, today was picture da...

Hello Dear Readers, Be sure to check out my monthly post over at BirdingIsFun   on the Grebe species seen in Arizona this winter.

I found myself in the east side of town this weekend and decided to revisit the Gilbert Water Ranch. It was a very nice morning of birding, ...

I fit in (fitted in?) just a pinch of evening birding on Thursday, hoping to see some first of the season Nighthawks. No luck there, but I d...

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...