Marsh Harrier   Circus aeruginosus

Vagrant with at least 89 records for Shetland

 

·         1994   Female on 13th – 14th May (PC).

·         1996   One viewed from Burns flying North East over Loch on 1st October (JMD, TPD, NM) and one on 17th – 18th October (JMD, TPD, NM).

·         1999   One flying over Hametoun being mobbed by ravens, was last seen flying south on 30th September (JMD, TPD).