Butler's Birds

The Phoenix Metropolitan area is a curious concoction. Phoenix itself is a large city, both in terms of area and population. Surrounding the...

This past Saturday my family and I decided to do some morning birding and a picnic lunch at Mesquite Wash, a great little birding spot just ...

No doubt one of the coolest Flycatchers in our galaxy, the Scissor-Tailed took Tim Burton's bleak plot device ( Edward Scissorhands ) an...

Western Kingbirds are big, yellow, and ornery, much like Big Bird from Sesame Street. Unlike Big Bird from Sesame Street, they're aesthe...

I spent this past weekend in Dallas, Texas. While the express purpose of this trip was not birding, I was certainly hoping to fit some in on...

The Verdin is a southwestern specialty and is a wonderful creature by all accounts. They make great nests, they're colorful, they're...

It seems like spring only lasted for a couple weeks, and now we're already into summer. Perhaps that explains the recent beach posts on ...