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Thanks for that info. :)

Thanks, I did ponder my post afterward (as I often do) and wondered if what is true for humans is true for birds. Birds metabolize much faster than humans so that could be a factor. I wondered what birds do in the wild when streams freeze over, as you said. So bottom line, regarding OP's...

Snow is very dry and very cold. Trying to get sufficient moisture from snow will cause the creature "drinking" it to suffer a catastrophic loss of body heat resulting in hypothermia and possibly death. An interesting experiment is to fill up a saucepan with snow and heat it on the stove to see...