I watched them every day but one that was terribly windy, and then they stayed under the miller's cow-shed.

Even strong winter birds don't like the wind much--do they, Doctor ?" "No, my lad, wind is one of the greatest enemies that a bird has.

A hardy bird who has plenty to eat can endure bitter cold, but when the food-supply is scanty, as it often is in winter, and the trees are covered with snow and ice, life is a battle with the Bird People.

Then if a high wind is added to all this discomfort their strength gives way, and they often die in great numbers.
"If people who own gardens and farms, where there are no evergreen trees or hayricks for birds to hide in, would put up each fall little shelters of brush and branches, they would save a great many bird-lives, and their orchards would be freer from insects in the spring.

But, Dodo, you are not painting the word-picture of the Chickadee.