During our last snow storm I was driving along Old Highway 61 in Grand Portage when I came across this flock of birds that kept landing on the road. I noticed them fluttering around the roadway when I rounded a corner so I stopped the truck and approached them on foot. Half a dozen or so would come out of the trees at a time, then land on the same spot of the road. After a while the whole group would burst up into the air, then start landing again half a dozen or so at a time. I approached within about 100 feet and planted my tripod in the snow to make this picture. Most of them were Pine Siskins but I noticed some Redpolls in there as well. It looked like they were landing on a clump of sandy/salty snow that fell off a passing vehicle.
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