It was a stunner of a day on our little island off the Llyn Peninsula, the kind of warm and bright autumn day that had Wryneck written all over it. Alas, if there was one about it must have been hidden well because despite walking almost every corner of the island we failed to find it. Instead, a Redstart was new in up on Pen Cristin as was a Willow Warbler in the Withies, and a Red-throated Diver went east through the Sound.

Other birds logged today included six Manx Shearwaters, 70 Gannets, four Common Scoters, two Sparrowhawks, two Buzzards, four Kestrels, a Merlin, four Dunlins, 23 Turnstones, a Common Tern, three 'Commic' Terns, three Guillemots and 1046 Razorbills. A Barn Owl was again seen around Nant whilst others sightings included two Little Owls, seven Grey Wagtails, four 'alba' Wagtails, 32 Robins, 10 Stonechats, eight Wheatears, three Song Thrushes, three Blackcaps, four Chiffchaffs, seven Goldcrests, a Spotted Flycatcher, 12 Chaffinches, 81 Goldfinches, 57 Linnets and single Reed Bunting.

It was a beautiful autumn day. The bracken is going over now and the leaves are already falling off the trees, but the warm sunshine had us thinking back to the balmy summer just gone.