As forecasted, today was wet and windy from the off, with a 40mph south-westerly... Mark was out seawatching in the early hours, although the action only really picked up a little later. By the end of the morning 3962 Manx Shearwaters had been counted, mostly moving south.

The adverse weather meant that a walk down to Solfach was quickly aborted, although not before five Ringed Plovers were counted. Later in the day, wader counts included 14 Redshanks, 43 Curlews, six Whimbrels, seven Purple Sandpipers, 39 Turnstones, one Common Sandpiper and one Dunlin.

Unfortunately, there was no sign of yesterday's remarkably early Sabine's Gull. However, there were two Yellow-legged Gulls in Solfach and 26 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 356 Herring Gulls, 27 Great Black-backed Gulls and 254 Kittiwakes recorded from the Narrows south.

The late morning and afternoon consisted of some gardening, Mark was busy at the top of the garden digging up a dis-used pipe to be repurposed. Meanwhile, many of the trees in the garden were getting cut back and later chipped by the chipper on Gareths tractor.

From 1600 onwards some ringing data was inputted and a few other indoor jobs were taken care of.