Birding Advent Calendar - 4th December - Pallid Harrier

Present for most of my week on Fair Isle, this juvenile Pallid Harrier put in many fly-bys as it hunted around the crofts on the southern part of Fair Isle. I had so many brief encounters with it during the first few days there that it almost became like an old friend. Then one day, just like that, it was gone.

Pallid Harrier, Fair Isle, Shetland - September 2015