A buzzard was found posioned on the Gledfield Estate nr Ardgay in Sutherland on 24 July 2009. This is the third buzzard to be found poisoned on this shooting estate in the last 12 months.
The full story can be found on the BBC news website: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/8166855.stm
Raptor Persecution UK 
As a raptor lover who lives locally to this estate I was incensed when this happened right on my doorstep.
For the benefit of this blogs national readers, I would like to point out that it’s been well known for some time now locally who the responsible party was.
It was not as might be assumed by reading the above the estates gamekeeper, but in my opinion a poacher that the estate had had problems with previously trying to dent the gamekeepers reputation.