Hi Tweeters,
Yesterday there was the strangest pair of birds on the ground under our feeder. It was a chick begging for food from its parent. The chick was three times the size of the parent. The parent was clearly a song sparrow without a tail, very small and the chick was a pale taupe color with striping similar to a pine siskin but a huge bird. It was big and also quite fat. I was puzzled. Would the parent be able to fly properly without the tail and would she be feeding another birds chick? Or is there another explaination for this phenomenon?
Nancy
Renton