While taking my morning walk along the twopath, I noticed a bird fly across  
the canal and land only eight feet away on the edge of the water.  I was  
dumfounded to see that it was an adult snow bunting.  
 
In more than twenty years of walking the towpath, I have never seen this  
species and do not expect to in the next twenty!  I did not, of course,  have my 
camera with me.
 
It was just upstream from Blockhouse Point.
 
Bob Mumford
Darnestown