17th Jan

Still stuck indoors continuing my year list from the comfort of my settee. Numbers reached 25 today with the addition of goldcrest (2 today), wren and sitting in neighbours large conifer....long eared owl!!!! Wow! A few dunnock around as are blackbirds, 6 blue tits, 8 chaffinches, the odd greenfinch and goldfinch coming through. A regular song thrush showed again today, not seen the blackcap for 6 days now.
Feeling desperate to get out now, If I feel up to it, I might try a trip to Dungy over the weekend, even if it is just to sit in visitor centre.
Spent the last 2 days resetting my laptop back to factory settings, reloading programs etc after getting a rather nasty virus even though I have anti virus software. I have most of it back up and running, lost some pics that I hadn't yet backed up elsewhere, lost all my emails and friends addresses, lost my 2012 year list from Sept onwards - I must back up files more often!

Long eared owl playing peek-a-boo