Snow buntings!

We spotted snow buntings this week, at 63rd Street Beach, Chicago.  According to Wikipedia, the snow bunting (sometimes known colloquially as a "snowflake") is a passerine bird in the longspur family Calcariidae. It's an arctic specialist with a circumpolar Arctic breeding range throughout the northern hemisphere. More @ http://birds.audubon.org/birds/snow-bunting

Photo: Jane Masterson