I think about how so many of the actual birds could fly away, and choose not to. The quiet adolescent hawks trying to make it through the cold months.
But remember how many microbes are brought into balance , and brought to their knees, by the cold, which around here, means less pesticide use that year-round places.
Remember how the trees and bushes and many animals need to rest or hibernate or be intermittently torpid or just quiet themselves down, to recharge, so the they are storing versus expending energy. So that, come spring, they all come awake refreshed.
Lastly, winter is a great time of culling those who cannot survive. Plants. Crows. All living things. Consider how many crows and coyotes and so many other living beings we would have, if all of them survived all the time. That gives you a small idea of how many don't. And in that case, yeah, survival of the fittest, and not too kind there, winter.
But then, who ever thought life had anything to do with fair?!
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