Butler's Birds

 For once I decided to be a really dedicated birder and actually try to be at my destination at sunrise. I was successful in that enterprise...

White-Crowned Sparrows are mighty handsome birds. They suffer a bit from over-exposure here during the winter months as they descend on the ...

The Desert Botanical Gardens have long been a birding staple of Butlers Birds and Things. It's nearby, has a good variety of species, an...

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...