Snow Bunting in the garden!

A snow bunting is not a bird I would expect to see in my garden, but we had a brief visit from one today.  It took us a while to work out work out what it was because it is not a bird you expect to see in an apple tree.  We have been recording the birds that visit our garden for over ten years now and this is a first.  Small numbers of them overwinter in a few sites along the Sussex coast and this one might have been heading for Widewater at Lancing where a pair spent a couple of months last winter.  This one seemed to be hanging out with a flock of chaffinches and soon headed out of the garden towards the trees around Bramber Castle. I will be looking out for sightings of one on the beach in the next few days.