The little Song Sparrow that arrived in our yard last December is doing well.Why it is alone and arrived long after it should have been in a warmer or at least more friendly climate than a central Saskatchewan winter is odd for a summer bird. Its normal winter territorry is below North Dakota and across the States and even west to the coast. The only clue might be it may have had an injury to its left wing. A group of the long or secondary feathers stick out at an angle and do not lay flat as they should.
It is able to fly but whether it can fly well enough to move on in the spring we shall see. We have had them in our yard but do not know if this bird could have been here last summer or else close by and picked our Yard to winter. over.