Dirty D That is something that they are there that early. You must not have winters. They do not care much for cold. We will not see them here until the end of March at the soonest. Do you always see them this early? The only birds I see now are sparrows, Hungarian partridge and I saw a raven today. Snow buntings, snowy and great horned owls, sharp tail grouse and pheasants you can see in the winter too. I have seen chickadees too, but not this winter.

No, usually don't See Sandhill Cranes till March. This winter has been very mild, lots of days in the 30's in Jan. and Feb. and some even in the 40's.
My neighbor has been plowing snow since '89. He keeps records, so far this winter he has plowed 4 times, the average is 10 times.