Next winter will probably run 2-3 inches and be a brown winter...that is how it goes but the winter of 2014-2015 was sheer hell...
The crows did not return in any numbers until after the snow melted and that was right at the end of the NH spring crow season....and they were numerous indeed!! However had the snow lasted still longer there'd not be many coming back until then at all...the ones seen were likely early winter scouts checking for farms spreading the fertilizer..home made fertilizer at that!