A day for getting on with various tasks and chores before tomorrow's changeover of guests. Finishing touches were made to the boardwalk down in Cristin Withy and a long overdue rarity-finding bench was built at the top of the garden. Late in the afternoon a heavy thunderstorm swept in from the north, leaving a scattering of migrants in its wake, but unfortunately without any particularly impressive numbers.

Birds logged today included 44 Fulmars, a Sooty Shearwater, 775 Manx Shearwaters, 184 Gannets, three Cormorants, two Grey Herons, a Teal, four Common Scoters, a Sparrowhawk, a Buzzard, two Kestrels, a Peregrine, a Ringed Plover, four Dunlins, a Whimbrel, 27 Curlews, a Redshank, 21 Turnstones, two Great Skuas, 18 Black-headed Gulls, seven Sandwich Terns, a Common Tern, two 'Commic' Terns, a Guillemot, three Razorbills, 38 Swallows, four House Martins, six Robins, five Stonechats, five Wheatears, a Sedge Warbler, two Chiffchaffs, 13 Willow Warblers, two Spotted Flycatchers, three Chaffinches and 54 Linnets.

The moth trap in Ty Pellaf reedbed is still producing the goods. Oblique Carpet is very much a species of specialist habitat, never caught away from the boggier areas of the Wetlands. 

The vegetation around Nant has attracted some fantastically rare species over the years, but with the bracken at shoulder height and dense foliage still on the trees, passerines are easily concealed and can be extra skulky.