My birding year 2018,some of the highlights.

 Pied Wheatear,Trevose Head,my favorite pic of the year.

 Richards Pipit ,the Lizard.

 Iceland Gull,Marazion.

 Spoonbill ,Hayle.

 Wow ,Belted Kingfisher,the Scillies.

 Red Rumped Swallow ,the Scillies.

 Laughing Gull,the Scillies.

 Pacific Golden Plover,Hayle.

 Found this Buff Breasted Sandpiper,the Scillies.

 Common Crane ,Hayle.

 Juvenile Little Gull,Hayle.

 A distant record shot of the Brown Shrike on the Lizard.

 Grey Catbird ,Lands End,bird of the year for me just pipping the Belted Kingfisher.

 Red Eyed Vireo,the Scillies.

 Long Eared Owl ,the Scillies.

 Dusky Warbler ,the Scillies.

 Rustic Bunting,the Scillies.

 Barred Warbler,the Scillies.

 Olive Backed Pipit,the Scillies.

 Grey Cheeked Thrush,the Scillies.

 Jack Snipe,the Scillies.

Finding this smart adult Caspian Gull was a nice finish to the year i also found an adult Ring Billed Gull the next day,Hayle.

Water Pipit on the Hayle estuary a few days ago.

Drake Goosander with first winter Black Headed Gull.

Some better pics of the Polish ringed adult Caspian Gull on Hayle Estuary yesterday.

 Polish ringed P292 it also has a small metal ring on the left leg just visible here.

 The over wintering Water Pipit was still present although it has been very elusive.

Rock Pipit.

Distant flight shot of the Caspian showing the wing formula.

Found this cracking adult Caspian Gull on the Hayle estuary yesterday morning ,its just a pity the weather was so poor and the bird was not a bit closer.

The last installment of our trip to the Scillies.

 Spoonbills with Sampson in the background, this picture was taken from Joe Penders boat on the way to Bryher.

 Dusky Warbler ,one of four birds we had in total with three together at Carn Friars one day ,a notoriously hard bird to photograph so quite pleased with these images.

 Dusky Warbler,pity about the shadow on the face otherwise would of been the best shot.

 Dusky Warbler.

 Purple Sandpiper,St Agnes.

 Barred Warbler .

 A late Reed Warbler.

 Blyths Pipit,found by Kris Spider Webb at Carn Friars.

 Blyths Pipit.

 Lesser Whitethroat possibly of an eastern race ?.

 Common Rosefinch 1st winter ,Kerry and i also found another bird later in the day.

 Great White Egret only the eleventh record for the scillies.

 This juvenile Hen Harrier had Kerry ,Higgo and myself going as it looked very hooded in the field with orange underparts but among other things the barring in the primaries ruled out Northern Harrier.

 Juvenile Hen Harrier.

 Juvenile Hen Harrier being mobbed by a Raven ,look how hooded this bird appeared ,at one time we had two Sparrowhawks a Peregine,Kestrel and two Ravens all mobbing the Harrier.

 One of the two Sparrowhawks.

 Four of the twenty plus Great Shearwaters we had on the boat crossing over .

 Common Dolphins.

Last but not least another shot of the superb Olive Backed Pipit.