Christmas has come and gone and we had a lovely

time. We had wonderful meals, went to a beautiful light show,

spent time with family and played with dogs. We visited the farm and

dropped by the cabin we built this summer to check

on things. We also received some lovely gifts and I will be

mentioning one in a later post.

I have a mental list of birds I would love to see it included

wild Turkey's, Bobolinks, Prairie Chicken and Snow Buntings.

I have glimpsed flocks of Snow Buntings while travelling

across the prairies in the winter but they never landed. So you

can imagine my delight when I looked out the kitchen

window of the farm and saw a flock of small white

birds in the stubble field in front of the house.

While the photos are not great I am posting them anyway.

Yippeee!!!!

" i)  I watched them from the road

At first

they didn't move

and when they didn't move

you couldn't see them

They were earth and snow

The birds were in a fallow field

and it was earth

and snow

and so you couldn't see them

...,

vi) They drift across the barren  days

like grain in birch

in bird's-eye maple...seeds

like feathered seeds they drift along

blown by the wind

blown by the wind above the grass and stone

viii)

You must lie down in the dark

in the naked fields

You must think of the birds

and make them as you will"

                       Snow Bunting

                           D. J. Jones