This morning before day light, I was out filling my bird feeders, had my headlight on so I could see, and there it was at my feet, a nightcrawler squirming across the top of the snow. I picked it up, and carried it over to the edge of the woods, kicked up the snow and some pine needles and set him down, so maybe he could dig down into the ground.
True story, never seen a nightcrawler in my 70 years on the snow headed some were.