SNOW BUNTING PERSISTS FRIDAY DEC. 7

After a week the Glenn County snow bunting continues to call the little private airstrip on Road 39 it's home. Again the bird was found in the company of horned larks. A couple of drenching rains over the course of the week didn't dampen the little birds fidelity to this sterile patch of ground...perhaps it looks like the glacial moraines and barren fields of it's breeding grounds. Vehicles pass by every few minutes and about half the time the bird crouchs as they pass and the rest of the time it rises about 40 feet in the air, flies in a big 100 yard circle and then drops like a rock right back to it's gravelly home-away-from home! Both Liam and Alita were able to get views of the bird and take some pictures (Alita's pictures above). One other vehicle of birders was there as we were leaving at about 4:40 p.m.