john gardiner
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Visited my parents this afternoon in Chester le Street Co Durham. I looked out the kitchen window to see half a dozen Chaffinch's fly up into the tree at the bottom of the garden.One bird looked very pale ( thought it was just the light off the strong sun ) when I got the binocular's out and got a good look the bird was pure white with a few blackstreaks on the wing and tail my first thought was Snow Bunting. But as I never seen one before I 'm not so sure it looked far too light compared to the pictures in various bird books the head being pure white and I thought it was too far from the coast ( about 12 miles ) and I Believe they feed on the ground but what else could it be?