Snow Bunting - Snøspurv
- Plectrophenax
nivalis
Snösparv - Snespurv
- Pulmunen - Sneeuwgors - Schneeammer - Bruant des neiges -
Escribano Nival
One of my
favourite
passerines this hardy species can be seen regularly on both spring and
autumn migration in Øygarden and is also occasional in
winter. Gullfjell is the nearest locality to Bergen where this species
can be found during the breeding season - it is also a regular late
autumn migrant here.
Snow Bunting in my driveway at Nautnes, March 2019
Snow Bunting in my driveway at Nautnes, March 2019
Here eating a worm - perhaps unusual food for this species but there
were more worms than seeds in my driveway in March!
Above
and below:
Snow Buntings resting offshore on the
Shtokman Field,
Barent's
Sea,
October 2010
Pictures taken with a DSLR and a 400mm telephoto lens
Above
and below: Male Snow
Bunting at Solberg, 31 May 2012 - an unusual date to see this species
out at the coast
DSLR with 400mm telephoto lens
Digiscoped image,
Svellingen,
Øygarden, 10
November 2005.
Above and below - male Snow Bunting, 01 February, Rong,
Øygarden
Having forgotten my DSLR in the car I had "only" a Nikon Coolpix
superzoom camera with me - the results show how good such cameras are
these days.
Top picture very slightly cropped, bottom picture not cropped at all
