Barry, be careful - I know where you live. Just one question: did you have your hooded sweatshirt on over your bathrobe or under it?

I don't know how much snow landed here because of the wind. I HAVE discovered that if birds can see the seed through a centimeter of light snow, they'll likely starve. They don't scratch like chickens, and I don't think they can either smell the seed or hear it. Bird seed typically doesn't make a lot of noise, and so is adept at hiding. Anyway, I think the most likely reason birds can'd dig through a tiny bit of fluffy snow to where the seeds were last time they ate there is that they are stupid. It's OK. They're pretty and they fly and they're usually pretty nice when they aren't eating the eyeballs out of road kill.

I'm plowed out, the bird feeder is accessible, my power's still on and I'm not dead. Not too bad.