Video tutorial: Sketching Owls

The Owls of Winter

In a season when so many other birds have migrated to warmer places, we’ll spend some time with three hardy birds who stay all winter: the eastern screech owl, the barred owl, and the great horned owl.

They thrive in cold temperatures because they are beautifully adapted to stay put:

• their feet stay cozy beneath a layer of feathers

• insulating down feathers…