A beautiful Snow
Bunting enjoys a day out at a local beach after
arriving for its autumn holidays from Greenland.
Photographer and Wild
Inishowen member Christine Cassidy snapped the bird
as it avoided the showers. She explained that the
welcome little visitor was on the Amber List of
endangered birds due to a scarcity of breeding.
"The Snow Bunting, sometimes colloquially called a
Snowflake...is an Arctic specialist. Globally they
breed around the Arctic from Scandinavia to Alaska,
Canada and Greenland and migrate south in winter."
