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 ...

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 ...

If country roads had birds to represent them the way states and nations do, then surely the snow bunting would be among the birds to represent North Dakota's roads. Probably everyone who's ever driven ...

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 ...

We are part of The Trust Project. The scarcity of pine siskins reminds us that the appearance of many northern birds is unpredictable here. Some years, yes; some years, no or nearly so. This is true ...

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 ...

When you hear the words, “snow bunting,” you think you will see birds as white as a new snowfall, but not this time of year. Now snow buntings are brown and white and look a little sparrow-like to ...

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, ...

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 ...

“When winter storms sweep across the land these birds blow in like true snowflakes and settle down on wind-blown hillsides and benchlands to feed upon the weed stalks that rise above the snow. They ...

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 ...