bird brains

I am lucky to have survived our trip to the Brainerd Levee this morning. It was very cold standing up on the levee with the wind blowing in our faces. We got to enjoy the flurries the whole time too. Here are some of the birds I've seen today

• pied-billed grebes
• green-winged teal
  
• wilson's snipe - x3!
• red-shouldered hawk
• eastern phoebes
• northern shovelers
  
• mallards
• gadwall
  
• ring-billed gulls
• kildeer
• great blue herons
• red-winged blackbird
• eastern meadowlark
• hairy woodpecker
• wood thrush
• european starlings (yuck!)
• american crows
• song sparrows
• turkey vulture
• northern cardinals
• american robin
  

and behind Southern Village

• song sparrow
• northern cardinals
• carolina wrens
• white-throated sparrows
• yellow-rumped warbler
• carolina chickadees
• tufted titmice
• house finch