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Butler's Birds: Autumn Staples
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Rock Out with Your 'Nocs Out. Birding Arizona and North America. Monday, November 28, 2011. If you take enough pictures of a bird, eventually it'll have to blink! Generally they're much better about not blinking in pictures (especially compared to people! And in fact it's pretty cool when you can catch them in the act. Like many waterbirds, the Ring-Necked Duck has a transparent eyelid. I assume this lets them see underwater, to an extent, without overly exposing their eyes to the murk. By happy coincide...
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Butler's Birds: We Shall Flight Them on the Beaches!
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Rock Out with Your 'Nocs Out. Birding Arizona and North America. Sunday, April 27, 2014. We Shall Flight Them on the Beaches! It was the perfect time to see who was passing through and what all was going on where my waste, and others', ended up. This Western Sandpiper above is in-between boring and sexy pluamge. Not terrible, but not as good looking as some of the other Westerns around, like Flashdance Western Sandpiper below. Of course, the Killdeer population has once again doubled in size, and now the...
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Butler's Birds: Parkin' It
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Rock Out with Your 'Nocs Out. Birding Arizona and North America. Friday, May 1, 2015. Sunset is a special time in the desert. The warm light combines with the red and purple hues of the landscape in an existentially reassuring way. In an homage to the merciful son, many animals perform a sort of salute during this time by directing their most prominent feature towards the waning light. May 5, 2015 at 5:25 AM. I get more of a Sauron in Mordor vibe from that owl with the glowing eye and all. Https:/ www...
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Butler's Birds: Lake's Park--Boardwalk and Snake Birds
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Rock Out with Your 'Nocs Out. Birding Arizona and North America. Saturday, June 29, 2013. Lake's Park- Boardwalk and Snake Birds. Yes, flock to it! In about two hours of birding, I literally re-saw almost every single other bird species I had this far seen in Florida at Lake's Park. It felt a little cheap in a way, since it was not a very natural seeming place (though, again, it was still a very nice city park), but like many other urban birding scenes, it was a great spot to load up on photos. Upon arri...
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Butler's Birds: Ordinarily Good Birding
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Rock Out with Your 'Nocs Out. Birding Arizona and North America. Sunday, April 19, 2015. Blue-gray Gnatcatchers and Black-throated Gray Warblers are by far the most common birds this time on year on Ord. Between those two names it sounds rather dour, but even if these birds are not bursting with color, they are bursting with song, or at least bursting with song-esque sorts of noises. Who wins in a beauty contest? Who wins in a fight? Who wins at bingo? The old corral and water tank off FR 1688 was typica...
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Butler's Birds: 05/14/15
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Rock Out with Your 'Nocs Out. Birding Arizona and North America. Thursday, May 14, 2015. Desert Birds for Dessert. With so much desert habitat here I know that ELOW and WESO are there, and I didn't tarry long into dark, but suffice it to say they're not as readily detectable as they are along the Salt River, which defeats the point of finding them closer to central Phoenix. What is. Readily detectable at the PMP is Gilded Flicker. Sometimes ATFLs look to their left as well, so here is a picture of that o...
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Butler's Birds: Binge Birding in the Santa Ritas
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Rock Out with Your 'Nocs Out. Birding Arizona and North America. Thursday, May 7, 2015. Binge Birding in the Santa Ritas. I mentioned some romping reckless birding a couple of weeks ago, where a lovely evening at a friend's house was followed by a drive down to the Santa Rita Mountains, an all-nighter sort of jaunt the likes of which would make cool cool college Butler cringe and think, "gross.". Lower Florida Canyon has a terrific mix of riparian vegetation and chaparral, where one can consistently see ...
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Butler's Birds: Yellow Birds of Pennsylvania
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Rock Out with Your 'Nocs Out. Birding Arizona and North America. Saturday, June 9, 2012. Yellow Birds of Pennsylvania. They're even more common in Pennsylvania, and here in the West Chester area they are much more brazen, much more conspicuous. Of course, they're Warblers, and Warblers seldom take it easy on photographers. But the opportunities are better and more numerous here. Finally I came away with a decent shot of a Yellow Warbler. The Warblers aren't the only yellow birds I've been enjoying lately...
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Butler's Birds: Nullifying a Nocturnal Near-Nemesis
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Rock Out with Your 'Nocs Out. Birding Arizona and North America. Thursday, April 9, 2015. Nullifying a Nocturnal Near-Nemesis. I'd hear WESOs plenty often, but never did I have that golden opportunity that seemed to present itself unwittingly to non-birders and birders alike. I'd seen it once, but never again. WESo was turning into a kinda Mobius Dick. Patiently make). They came in to investigate our calls. There were intense stare-offs. Frodo didn't feel so good when he finally ditched the Ring of Power...
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Butler's Birds: 05/07/15
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Rock Out with Your 'Nocs Out. Birding Arizona and North America. Thursday, May 7, 2015. Binge Birding in the Santa Ritas. I mentioned some romping reckless birding a couple of weeks ago, where a lovely evening at a friend's house was followed by a drive down to the Santa Rita Mountains, an all-nighter sort of jaunt the likes of which would make cool cool college Butler cringe and think, "gross.". Lower Florida Canyon has a terrific mix of riparian vegetation and chaparral, where one can consistently see ...
