Upland Sandpiper   Bartramia longicauda

Vagrant. This is the only record for Shetland.

 

·         1993   One on 22nd September until at least 6th October. Found dead on 18th November (GP, FR et al.)

·         1996   One, Punds, Hametoun, on 14th September (MMk).

·         2004   One, Ham, on 4th – 8th May (GA, SCV et al). This is only the 2nd spring record for Britain, the first being on  St Kilda in April 1981.