I can't resist adding a few factoids for additional perspective:
-- Minnedosa is a small town in the province of Manitoba, roughly 75 
miles north of the Canada/North Dakota border.
-- Minnedosa is at 50.25 deg north latitude. Winnepeg, the biggest city 
in Manitoba, is at 50.0 degrees.
-- The town is in the interior, nowhere near any large lake.

Bottom line, those prairie provinces are windswept and COLD! Poor sparrow.

June

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June Tveekrem
Columbia, Maryland
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lance biechele wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>    AND YOU THINK OUR BIRDS HAVE IT ROUGH - WHAT ABOUT THIS REPORT
> FROM CANADA --
>    "The biggest surprise from today's Minnedosa Christmas Bird Count was a Song
> Sparrow who has chosen to winter in a dry and lonely implement shed - it has
> been there since the early cold set in, and is now eating bits of cooked
> burger and fat plus raisins that the landowner provides." 
>    Maybe there's a story here?
> Best wishes,
> Lance 
>