Freezing rain a threat to early migrating birds

The ice storm is likely to kill some early migrating birds while forcing others to hunker down against the twin threats of cold and lack of food.
It came at just the wrong time, said birder Bruce Di Labio. On Saturday, he was starting to see some early arrivals among insect-eating species: eastern phoebes, yellow-rumped warblers and tree swallows.
In any other year, this would be the right time for them to arrive.
“But then, boom! This wave of freezing rain,” he said Monday.
“I