Female Pied Wheatear ,Trevose Head Cornwall.This is only the third record for Cornwall and the first one available to the masses .

The next installment of our Isles of Scilly trip.

 Grey Cheeked Thrush,after spending hours waiting for a brief view on St Agnes Spider relocated the bird a few days later at Little Porth ,St Marys where it performed well and gave close and prolonged views.

 Same bird.

 Yellow Browed Warbler,one of the 20 plus we had on the trip.

 This female Merlin was sat on the chimney of the house next to our digs as we arrived off the boat.

 Red Eyed Vireo a vagrant from North America and always a pleasure to see ,this bird was on Bryher.

 Red Backed Shrike 1st winter ,St Agnes.

 This was one of our highlights ,this Long Eared Owl spent the whole day roosting in a sallow on Lower Moors ,although partially obscured it was great to see it have a preen in the late afternoon sunshine.

 Rustic Bunting ,although only distant record shots we had great scope views and best of all it was a new British bird for Kerry and me, a great find by Will Scott.

 Same bird.

 Same bird.

 Little Bunting found by my mate Adam Hutt.

 There was a good arrival of thrushes while we were there including this Fieldfare .

 Redwing.

Redwing having a bath.

A little taster of my 2018 Isles of Scilly trip report ,this showy Olive Backed Pipit was just one of many highlights ,hopefully i will get the rest of the images on before the end of the week.

 This superb pipit has got to be one of my favorite birds ,it breeds in Siberia and NE Europe and winters mainly in S Asia but a hand full reach Western Europe annually ,its not often they show so well so i was more than pleased with these images.

Another visit to Lands End this morning to see the superb Grey Catbird paid off with some better images.

The bird called several times today ,pity there was a branch in the way in this image.

Grey Catbird ,Treeve Common ,Lands End 16/10.18.

 What a cracking bird ,this American beauty is the first for Cornwall and only the second for Britain as far as i know, anyway its bloody rare,it gets its name from its strange call that is reminiscent of a cats meow.

Although only a record flight shot all the identification features are visible including black cap and tail, rusty  undertail coverts and sooty grey body.

Brown Shrike ,Soapy Cove the Lizard a great end to my weeks birding in Cornwall ,before and after work obviously !!.

 A very distant record shot of the first winter Brown Shrike ,Soapy Cove on the Lizard.

 Whinchat,Lands End.

 As above.

 Juvenile Peregrine Falcon hunting on the Hayle estuary.

 As above .

 Little Grebe ,see lots of these on Carnsew pool but rarely on the main estuary so was nice to get this bird swim close in front of me .

 Adult winter Sandwich Tern.

 Yellow Legged Gull either 2nd or 3rd calendar year ,answers on a postcard !!.

 As above.

 As above.

 As above.

 Yellow Legged Gull 1st calendar year.

 As above ,love these birds at this age ,so crisp and neat.

 As above ,look at that neat tail band.

 As above.

 As above.

As above.