West Fjords/Hornstrandir in mid-september '16 possible?

Would it be possible to hike Hornstrandir for a day or two between 19-22th?

Your main issue is the operation of the hiker's ferries and/or boat-assisted escorted hiking trips. The ferries run up to the end of August.
http://www.westtours.is/trip-categories/boat-schedules/

This escorted hiking trip runs up to 9 Sept.
http://www.westtours.is/package/1053/hornstrandir---panorama/

Hornbjarg Bird Cliffs

There won't be any birds on them in September, nor even in the latter parts of August.

Also, in general, would west fjords be recommended in mid sept

It is hard to say what the weather will be on any specific date. Apart from the weather risk which is a general problem in all parts of Iceland as summer fades quickly into the memory, I can't say any reason to avoid it over any other part of Iceland at this time. You can gather from the fact that the ferries start winding down around about 20 August that the weather is deteriorating already from a month ago, but that is true of the whole country. And it is the wrong time to come if you wanted to see seabirds, again true of the whole country. So you can still see the spectacular cliff which is Latrabjarg, but you won't see any puffins, which the main reason most people want to go there. The puffins will be flying off to sea around about next week.

These guys https://www.boreaadventures.com/boat_tours/Hornvik/ have a boat to some places of the uninhabited part of the Westfjords in first weeks of September but your days seems a bit too late.

thank you for your responses.
in that case, would you have any recommendations of things to visit in west fjords in sept or would you recommend to avoid the area?

I don't really find the question meaningful. The Westfjords are still there, just as lovely as they always are. So, the boat trips to Hornstrandir aren't running and the seabirds aren't there any more, but that's the kind of issue you are going to come across in every other part of Iceland if you come after the summer: you can't expect all the summer things to be there for you or the weather to be as accommodating. And if you are only going to the Westfjords for 4 days, you'll have no shortage of lovely things to find, the bigger problem is not having enough time. I usually say 5 days is the shortest time to make it worthwhile going to the Westfjords. But if you are the kind of tourist who needs named attractions to go and stare at, and specified tourist activities to do, then maybe you'd be better off in a main tourist part of Iceland where such things are more plentiful, rather than somewhere that the main attraction is the general scenery.

It remains that the main issue is the weather. It always is, really. The nicest bit of Iceland is the bit where the sun is shining. It is best to look at the weather forecast and try and go where the weather will be nicer. This can only be predicted, and that approximately, at short notice.

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