Snow Bunting?

[Kenn]

Caught a glimpse of a small flock of birds today, aprox.30, that came up off the coastal margin. They flashed white undersides as they took off and had a strange almost side ways flight ,this may have been due to the windy conditions.A little smaller than a sparrow I would estimate and with the broad beak of a seed eater.
Unfortunately there was no place to pull over and try for a closer look.

[bekisman]

We had a single Snow Bunting here for a week. Funny but it was the week we had a bird watcher staying with us -it disappeared the a few hours before it left...