Snow Bunting
“It is at this time each year when my mind often drifts to thoughts of Snow Buntings, Horned Larks and elusive Lapland Longspurs.”
Through the year
Columns that mention it, by the month they were published.
Year by year
Columns that mention it each year.
In his words
Ten of the 11 passages, oldest first.
On the last day of the month I got a call from my wife alerting me to a flock of Snow Buntings that she had just spotted on the fields surrounding the high school.
In the last days of November there were a few reports of Snow Buntings in Cape Elizabeth.
There have been several reports of Snow Buntings in Cape as well.
It is at this time each year when my mind often drifts to thoughts of Snow Buntings, Horned Larks and elusive Lapland Longspurs.
As we crept closer a drift of six Snow Buntings swiftly took flight, rising and falling in concert before settling back down on the sunlit branches of a nearby tree.
On the coldest day of February I went searching for Snow Buntings, Horned Larks and elusive Lapland Longspurs.
Lastly, there have been several reports of Snow Buntings across Cape including Two Lights State Park, Crescent Beach State Park and Dyer Point.
According to eBird, over the last two weeks of January across Cape only small handful of Snow Bunting and Horned Lark sightings were reported.
Upon closer inspection I spied five Snow Buntings in their non-breeding plumage hunkered down in the shadow of a parking curb stop.
It’s also amazing to know that so many different species have been spotted at this one location, highlights include a Yellow Rumped Warbler, Snow Buntings, Lapland Longspur, Horned Larks, a Rusty Blackbird, an American Pipit and particularly noteworthy ducks include, American Widgeon, Barrow’s Goldeneye…
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On the coldest weekend of January, I set out in search of Horned Larks, Snow Buntings and Lapland Longspurs.