The Toro outdoor equipment equipment company opened the roof doors on it's 12 acre junco hatchery this week in Bloomington Minn. The tiny dark Grey and white birds will track along the shorelines of the Great Lakes. Soon everyone will be scared silly about the coming snow .Snowbird conditioning will peak earlier this year. I mostly think of Juncos the week Trick or Treaters arrive. Convoys of semi trucks filled with bright red snow blowers will soon be moving out.We got our first trio of them today at Bradstreet's Landing in Rocky River. The Airens Company in Wisconsin will open their Snow Bunting facility early next month. Migration smigration. These cute little beasts do not come from the enchanted boreal forests in the North. Good sightings Sam Walker Conspiracy promoter North Olmsted ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]