A mixed week of weather, though we caught our second and third Yellow-browed Warblers of the trip and ringed our first Brambing of Autumn.

The Fox is still keeping us company and this week Kay saw a Mink, only about 20' away and unaware of her presence. We have started catching more Great Spotted Woodpeckers and have now caught more than double the previous years record of them, with plenty more to come!

Although still mild there is a real feel of Autumn about the island, and we are picking decent numbers of field mushrooms.

Had only our third night with just the two of us overnight! Went fishing yesterday and Kay caught a codling, too small to keep but at least we know they are there.

From the house today we saw three White-tailed Eagle, an Osprey and a HoneyBuzzard.