Brigham City, UT is cold.

I’m amazed at how hearty the birds are here because they survive this weather.  I could only spend about five minutes outside before jumping back in the car.  Yet the field in the above picture was filled with pheasants.  Sadly I don’t have any pictures yet because all you have to do is look at a pheasant and it flies or hides in the brush.

The snow has been outside for so long that it forms a thick crunchy crust.

Brigham City is about 45 miles north of Farmington, where I found all those Northern Harriers.  But the weather is substantially colder.  Compare the cattail in Brigham City to the one I posted last week.  This one is coated in snow.

Utah has several types of birds that also live year round in California.  These poor birds, I want to tell them about how they should be wintering in Cali.

Lady, I am so cold right now, you can’t even imagine

Many of the Song Sparrows were sitting in the brush looking so very cold, but many were also flying around

and playing in the snow

and looking at the tiniest sliver of grass underneath the snow

I’m glad that they don’t know what they’re missing.