snow bunting

Caught this little one looking at me. I think he was saying "come on with the seed".

Knowing they will be gone before too long, I couldn't resist having another couple hours sitting on the ground at Salthouse. It's magic to see them come withing say 3 feet of you. Yesterday, the Green Winged Teal and Turnstone were close again as well.

The wind helped with the hover

Another Bunting shot of my day out at Salthouse

Buntings were coming in pretty close this day, but, the weather kept touching on sun and clouds. Still glad to have gotten close to them

These came really close on sat, some 2 feet away.

One of the flock from Salthouse. They were quite easy to get close to yesterday.

Finally the weather allowed some shots today. The Snow Bunting males are getting whiter.

Particularly pale individual at Salthouse.

sorry I just cannot resist them... compositional crop - ISO500, f6.3, 1/640th

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This male is on the turn and stands out against the others i the flock.

Well it felt cold enough for snow first thing this morning. There was a large flock of Snow buntings with a couple of Laplands thrown in, all very nice. Thought this fella was especailly handsome

I know the Snow Buntings have been flogged to death on here but these shots are from my first proper outing with my new lens. It seemed everytime I picked the lens up the weather would turn bad or there wasn't anything about to shot, so hopefully the new gear curse has lifted now.

Another from the Salthouse gloom. Small crop 1/200, f5.6, iso1600

These really pose well here.

Taken on Black Friday. It was 28 degrees with wind gusts of up to 50mph. What we'll do for birds!

With the Lapland Buntings at Salthouse. ----------------------------------- More from salthouse on website. http://www.pbase.com/02purser

These came in really close today.

A super quick stop to add this little beauty to my year list, couldn't stay any longer as i had to be in work! Will definatly go back for a better pic.

Aren't these just the most welcome winter visitor?