It was the third week in January, with the temperature gauge registering minus 17 degrees at 6 a.m. The sun wasn’t even up yet, but dozens of small birds were hopping on the snow beneath a backyard ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dark-eyed junco bird in snow - Melodyannem/Getty Images Winter is an exciting time for birdwatchers because it's the season when ...

Human snow birds, my friends from Lake Villa included, are off to Florida, but avian snow birds are right here in northern Illinois. They’ll be with us until at least early April, if not longer. They ...

It’s always a pleasure to watch the variety of feathered visitors at our backyard birdfeeders year-round, but snowbirds reign as our family’s unanimous winter favorite. Who could resist those plump ...