Even though we haven’t seen much snow in the Inland Northwest this winter, we’ve gotten plenty of snowflakes. Snow buntings are nicknamed snowflakes for their whitish color and the way they flutter ...

Every year around this time a diminutive and delicate-looking bird, about the size of a common house sparrow, shows up in small groups at North Point State Park in Baltimore County, on the shores of ...

The snow bunting is another of November's emblematic birds. Like other November birds -- rough-legged hawk, snowy owl, tree sparrow -- the snow bunting is a visitor. Unlike the others, it spends the ...

This winter, I spotted a flock of feisty little white-feathered birds angling in, out and sideways over a hayfield in Dixmont, and after a moment of wonder realized they were snow buntings. By now, ...

As a few green shoots popped up in intertidal meadows and along the beach fringes in the middle of March, a welcome avian harbinger of spring arrived: a small flock of snow buntings foraged among the ...

SHEBOYGAN, Wis. - One of Wisconsin's unique visitors come winter is starting to arrive in some locations across the state. The snow bunting, the northernmost songbird, spends its winters in the ...

Driving to town on a winter day, I occasionally see flocks of white birds where the wind sweeps across fields, blowing snow across the road and exposing the grass. Rising and falling, the birds look ...

November gives us shorter days with early sunsets and cooling temperatures. We start to see ice on ponds, swamps and eventually on lakes. Since the ground and forest floor are covered with downed ...

I don’t want any trouble, Chris, “What are you looking at?” is usually a line heard in a movie, just before a barroom brawl breaks out. But in this case, it was a friendly inquiry from Chris, whom I ...

While visiting the Flathead, snow buntings are most easily identified in flight by their large white wing patches. The wintering male is white overall with a buff, streaked back, a white rump patch, ...