Butler's Birds

This week is AIMS week, the week in which my students take lots of standardized tests to tell us and them how they compare to other students...

The Granite Reef Dam and recreations site is one of the western-most structures on the salt river as it flows into the city. None of that re...

By fun coincidence, there have been some excellent posts and photos of young Killdeer this last week in the bird Blog-o-sphere. I'd neve...

I was all set to visit the Desert Botanical Gardens for some evening birding and photography on Wednesday. The plan was to leave work and he...

 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...