The Snow Bunting

I captured this video in my backyard. This little bird isn't known by many people but for those who live up north,.. it brings us the message of spring!

A little information about the Snow Bunting from Wikipedia:

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata... Read More
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Emberizidae
Genus: Plectrophenax
Species: Passerina nivalis

The Snow Bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis), sometimes colloquially called "snowflake", is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae. It is an arctic specialist, with a circumpolar Arctic breeding range throughout the northern hemisphere. There are small isolated populations on a few high mountain tops south of the Arctic region, including the Cairngorms in central Scotland and the Saint Elias Mountains on the southern Alaska-Yukon border.

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Pets & Animals

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• birdwatching
• nature
• birds
• snow bunting

[normanbi]

I wanted that beautiful spring "song" they have! I wanted it to sing in the house to my granddaughter as I rocked her! :) But ... I DID enjoy the buntings that year. They do not return to the same place every year. I left their sweet nest in the cage, wired the cage open, and watched them raise their babies. I worked as a Christian camp nurse for youth that year, and on my last day of camp, I came home to find the babes had flown from the nest! My first adventure with buntings! :) Hugs!!! ~Bren

[normanbi]

We have buntings, as well. But, our buntings are a blue color, like the bluebird. They are not snow buntings. I love the songs of the buntings! When I was expecting my first grandchild, I set out a birdcage to capture buntings that were nexting on our front porch in early spring. I captured them nesting in the cage, then released them after realizing they were insect eaters! lol Had they been strictly seed eaters, I wanted them for pets due to the song "Bye Baby Bunting", one of my favs! :)

[normanbi]

But, really, we had a lot of birds early this year... almost TOO early! I am afraid there are eggs freezing! We have had cold, warm, cold, warm, rain, snow, sleet, wind, cold, warm... it's a mixed-up confused climate we live in these days! We had 29 degrees just this past night before Easter Sunday. And, yet, it has already reached 85 degrees on occassion in February and March! Very strange!

[normanbi]

Hello, My Dear, Sweet Friend! I have missed you! This is a beautiful video! The "snowflake" is a beautiful bird! Of course, "robins" are supposed to be our first signs of spring around here, so we watch for the yard to be filled with chubby robins! :)  (continued ... )