Some birds brave the cold

I was staring out my bedroom window the other day, the day of an extreme cold weather warning here in Toronto. Our city normally gets cold this time of year, so for there to be a warning means it was serious. Stay inside if you can type of serious.

Yet as I was gazing at the frozen world, I saw these petit, brown birds, darting tree to tree, shifting their tiny heads back and forth, chirping melodic tunes I could only…