Rich, I feel your pain, I live just outside of Erie and we get the same type of lake effect snows and anything else that seems to come across the lakes, we got about a foot of fresh snow on thurs. I saw a dead robin today,kinda hard to catch worms under a 12" snow cover, Redwing blackbirds are here so I'm hoping springs not far behind but I'm not holding my breath." Springs along time coming this high up ."Later Bob