The Upper Mississippi in Spring

This is the river just above the dam (you can click this picture for a whopping big version):
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And these birds seem to be waiting for the other shoe to drop:

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Photos taken from the Coon Rapids dam, looking upstream. The birds in the second photo are on the edge of the ice you see in the first photo.