Some 3,000 North Americans are part-time residents who have bought winter homes.

Undoubtedly, it had once been the winter home of a wealthy northerner.

And some of those buildings were winter homes for Northern snowbirds.

In recent years many summer cottages have become winter homes for homeless families and welfare recipients.

And later in the season many thousands more birds will migrate here from their winter homes across the planet.

There are a number of winter homes in King Valley.

Some of the old buildings are still in use as winter homes.

Their winter home was somewhere down near the equator.

Most of the veterans have not arrived from their winter homes.

Any day now they'll migrate to their winter homes.