new year tick

9:50pm and gave tilly her last walk, when i flushed the resident tawny owl (76) from one of the oak's which align my driveway :) my cottage is joined onto a wood and i was planning a walk in the morning to check the nest hole for a roosting tawny, no need to now. just need to look for woodcock now, all this snow might bring them out into the open? fingers crossed i get one.