Butler's Birds

Lots of adventurers and spelunkers and entrepreneurs struck out west in the mid and late 1800s in search of gold. This past week I made som...

Last weekend saw another trip out west, not as far as Havasu and the whole different panoply of awesome birding that is to be had there, bu...

The last several posts have featured either the frozen tundra that is Iowa in winter or some of the singular vagrants that have turned up a...

It is a lesser known and celebrated fact that the prestigious Princeton College in New Jersey actually is named after a wildlife refuge in ...

These last few weeks I've been forcibly trying to bird more on workdays. After school, I usually have about an hour and a half of good ...

I wasn't specifically in Iowa for the birds last weekend, but as any other addict can attest...one manages to fit in some time all the ...

To break one's duck...I've always liked that British-ism, an idiom meaning someone has done something for the first time. It's a...

On the way home from the Arlington/Palo Verde agricultural fields last weekend I swung by Encanto Park. With several large duck ponds and a...