A few hundred feet can make a difference whether a snow shower coated you with more snowflakes or not.
Snow Laden Clouds
With snowflakes flying most every day, spring is slow coming and the spring birds are probably wondering why they came back so soon. But at least this sparrow didn’t have the trouble like the loons that dropped from the sky after getting coated with ice and they are unable to fly if the loons didn’t fall in water as they need big stretches of water to take flight again.
Sparrow in Snow