Long-eared Owl   Asio otus                                                          

Scarce passage migrant and rare winter vistor

 

·         1898   One, late October is the first record for Foula (Evans and Buckley, cited in Pennington et al., 2004).

·         1964/65   In the winter between these years, several birds were recorded (Pennington et al., 2004).

·         1996   One, 20th April; One 11th May. In autumn Two, 26th October.

·         2003   One on the 30th April and 11th May. A single was seen in the autumn from the 16th – 26th October.

·         2006   One, 25th August