The Kent List

Brent Goose

BRENT GOOSE (BLACK BRANT)

Branta bernicla nigricans

Rare but fairly regular winter vagrant

1974	Medway, adult, February, no exact dates.
1984	Leysdown/Shellness, one wintered and was joined by second bird from 8th December.
1985	Shellness, one present, 20th-27th January, with two birds on 29th.
1987	Sandwich Bay, one present, 21st March.
1990	Swalecliffe, adult, 23rd October until 4th November, and was later seen in Sheppey and Reculver areas until at least 30th November.
1991	Reculver, adult, 16th-24th February, and again on 9th March. Assumed to be the same bird as that of 1990.
1995	Swale area. Single bird on several dates between 12th January and 25th February, with perhaps the same bird at Reculver/Minnis Bay from 4th-5th march.
	South Medway estuary, two birds, 2nd November until end of year.
	Allhallows, one present, 3rd December.
1996	Allhallows, one present, 13th January, presumed same bird as December 1995.
	Motney Hill, one over wintering from 25th November 1995, until 13th February.
	St. Mary’s Marsh, one over wintering from 3rd December 1995, until 13th January.
1997	Horsham Marsh, Medway, single bird, 18th January until 2nd February, is considered to be the same bird of winter 1995/96. St. Mary’s Bay, Thames, same bird 16th-23rd February.
	Motney Hill, two birds, 7th April.
	Motney Hill, one present, 2nd-30th November.
	High Halstow, one present, 16th-23rd February, and again from 3rd-8th March.
1998	South Medway, one present, 13th-25th April.
1999	Dartford, single bird on Thames, 13th November.
2000	Motney Hill, one bird, 1st-2nd October.
	Shellness, 2nd-29th October, with presumably same bird Tankerton/Swalecliffe from 3rd November. Joined by second bird 19th-26th November, with this bird remaining into 2001. One of the two was also at Reculver on 2nd-3rd December.
2001	Two birds remained from 2000, one at Reculver until 3rd March, and the other at Swalecliffe/Whitstable until 17th January.
2002	Funton Creek, one present, 9th November.
2004	Lower Halstow, adult present, 12th December.
2005	Chetney Marshes, adult present, 2nd January, considered being same bird as 2004.
	Harty Ferry, two adults, from 13th February, with one remaining until 24th February, and the other until 13th March.
	Reculver, adult, 18th November, remaining until the year end, having been seen at Swalecliffe on 11th December.
	Motney Hill, adult, 26th December.
2006	Reculver, adult, remained from 2005 until 24th March.
	Yantlet Creek/St. Mary’s Marsh, first-winter, 6th-22nd January.
	South Swale LNR, adult, 15th-16th November, and again at Reculver, 19th November to 7th December.
2007	Lower Halstow, adult, on the Medway, 1st January.
	Yantlet Beach, adult, 18th February, presumed to be the Lower Halstow bird.
	Reculver, a different adult from Lower Halstow bird, 25th-26th February, then Swalecliffe on 28th, and back at Reculver 13th March, all presumed to be same bird.
	Yantlet Creek/Allhallows, adult, 26th March, and again 23rd April until 19th May, presumed to be the same as January Lower Halstow and Yantlet bird.
	Grain to Halstow Marshes, adult, seen several times, 17th November until 1st December.
2008	Grain, adult, 27th-30th January, and perhaps same bird St. Mary’s Bay 21st February.
	Hoo flats, adult, 1st-5th May.
	Cliffe, adult flew west, 4th November.
	Swale, adult, 3rd-14th December.
2009	Reculver, adult, 2nd-13th January.
	Pegwell Bay, one present, 1st November.
2010	Reculver, adult, 15th January.
2012	Reculver, adult, 9th December.
2013	Lower Halstow, adult, 18th-27th January, and again on 19th March.
	Lower Halstow, adult, presumably same, 11th December to year end.
2014	Lower Halstow, adult, 2nd-13th January, was no doubt the bird from 2013, while one at South Swale LNR on 14th was perhaps the same.
	Dungeness, one flew west, 15th October.
	Swalecliffe, adult, 20th October, was likely the returning bird, and was also seen at South Swale LNR on 9th November, Shellness on 16th November, and Lower Halstow on 17th and 19th December.
2015	South Swale LNR, adult, from 2014, remained in the area until at least 13th January, with the bird at Hoo Saltmarsh on 30th March was perhaps the same individual.
2016	Lower Halstow, single bird, 23rd January.
	Swale, single bird, 5th-24th February.
	South Swale LNR, two birds, 5th February.
	Pegwell Bay/Foreness, single bird, 27th February until 7th March.
	South Swale LNR, single bird, 8th October.
	South Swale LNR, single bird, 15th-16th October.
	Pegwell Bay, single bird, 25th October.
	Chetney, single bird, 18th December.
2017	Chetney, single bird, 15th January, may have been same as bird in Swalecliffe-Whitstable on 9th and 22nd.
	South Swale LNR and Seasalter, two birds, February until 18th March.
	Lower Halstow, single bird, 27th May.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 3rd November
	Pegwell Bay, single bird on 30th November.
2018	Lower Stoke, single bird, 18th March.
	Shellness/Harty Marshes, two birds, 16th April.

Red-breasted Goose

Taiga Bean Goose

TAIGA BEAN GOOSE

Anser fabalis

Scarce passage migrant and winter visitor.

1968	Cooling Marshes, three, with White-fronts, 13^thJanuary.
	Capel, single bird with White-fronts, 4^th February.
1973	Cooling, party of five showed the characteristics of this race, 21^st February.
1976	Cliffe Marshes, a flock of eleven, 31^st January.
	Minnis Bay, single bird, 24^th March.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 9^th-10^th November.
1977	Sheppey, up to five birds, sporadically between 4^th January and 18^th February.
	Reculver, flock of thirteen, 3^rd January.
	St. Nicholas-at-Wade, six birds, 8^th March.
	Stodmarsh, two birds, 20^th March. Wade Marsh, Minnis Bay,
	Sandwich Bay, four birds present, 27^th March.
1978	Thames Marshes, party of six, 26^th February.
1979	An exceptional year for Bean Goose, with up to two hundred birds reported, with the largest flock having 69 birds. Birds of both races were involved county wide, but no detailed analysis was possible.
1988	Scotney, five birds, 20th February until 2nd March, with two present on 13^th and 31^st March.
	Hayesden, single bird, 6^th March, was probably an escape.
	Sandwich Bay, two birds, 16^th October, with seven present two days later.
1997	Scotney, at least one bird of a flock of sixteen birds was a Taiga Bean, 1^st-9^th February.
	Wade Marshes, Minnis Bay, four birds, 24th December to year end.
1998	Wade Marshes, a single bird among flock of ten Tundra’s, A. serrirostris, 10^th-15^th February.
1999	Scotney, two birds were present from 26^th January, and were reported sporadically until 3rd April, with a third bird present on 14^th March.
	Dungeness/Scotney area, single bird, 17^th May.
	Dungeness RSPB, four birds present, 15^th December, with two on 21^st, and one on 27^th.
2002	Scotney Court, a flock of sixteen, 5^th December.
2003	Dengemarsh area, three birds, 18^th February to 6^thMarch.
2004	Cliffe Pools, two birds, 15^th February, then frequented Higham Marshes area until 13^th March.
2006	Walland Marsh, single bird, 29^th December into 2007.
2007	Walland Marsh, from 2006 until 7^th January.
	Dungeness RSPB, possibly same bird as Walland Marsh, 3^rd February, and again at Scotney Court GP on 4^th February.
	Sandwich Bay, two birds, 6^th-7^th January.
	Dumpton, single bird, 11^th January, with possibly the same bird at Collard’s Lake, Stodmarsh, on 14^th, remained until 17^th March.
	Reculver, four birds, 14^thJanuary.
	Scotney Court GP, five birds, 16th-22^nd December, increased to twelve on 27^th.
	Cheney Court, Walland, two birds, 16^th December.
	Elmley, nine birds, 24^th December.
2012	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 12^th-16^th March.
2016	Dungeness, single bird, 25^th March.
	Sandwich, five birds, 22^ndOctober until 20^th November.
	Chetney, four birds, 5^th December.
2017	St. Nicholas-at-Wade, single bird, on 9th January, with two birds present from 30th January until 24th February, also being seen at nearby Monkton during this period.

White-fronted Goose

Lesser White-fronted Goose

Blue-winged Teal

American Wigeon

Black Duck

Green-winged Teal

Canvasback

Ferruginous Duck

FERRUGINOUS DUCK

Aythya nyroca

Rare Vagrant and occasional escape

1960	Dungeness, first-winter male, 8th November to 4th December.
1967	Stodmarsh, 18th August.
1974	Bough Beech Reservoir, adult male, 3rd November.
1978	Grain, male, 3rd January.
	Sevenoaks Wildfowl Reserve, two males, 3rd-7th July. One remained until 7th December.
	Stonar Lake, Sandwich, male, 27th July.
1979	Stodmarsh, male, 13th January.
	Otford, male, 13th January.
	Murston Pits, pair, 3rd February.
	Bough Beech Reservoir, male, 23rd October.
1980	Dungeness RSPB, male, seen on various pits in the area, 27th January to 22nd May.
1981	Chilham Lakes, male, 17th January to 8th March. Also seen at Seaton.
	Bough Beech Reservoir, male, 27th March to 7th April.
	Dungeness RSPB, female, 26th April to 9th May.
	Dungeness RSPB, immature, 12th-16th November.
1987	Dungeness RSPB, eclipse male, 30th July to 30th August.
1995	Mosco Pool, Grain, adult female, 6th February to 4th March.
	Mosco Pool, Grain, adult female, 30th July to 4th August, presumed same bird as earlier record.
	Boughton Park and Weirton Hill Farm, seen 2nd-11th November, then 15th November, and finally 2nd December.
1996	Thanington Lakes, Canterbury, male, 18th February.
	New Hythe Lakes, female, 28th December to 28th January 1997.
1998	Ham Road Pits, male, 17th December.
1999	Eastwell Lake, male, 1st-3rd January.
	Seaton Gravel Pits, male, 9th-16th January, presumed same bird as Eastwell Lake.
	Stodmarsh, male, 24th January, presumed same bird as Eastwell and Seaton.
2003	Abbey Meads Lake, New Hythe, adult female, 19th December.
2005	New Hythe, first winter, 11th December to year end.
2006	New Hythe, same bird as 2005, remained until 18th March, with perhaps the same bird returning to Leybourne/Snodland area from 11th October until 22nd December.
2007	New Hythe, same bird moulted into adult plumage, remained until 12th March, with presumably the same returning briefly on 27th July.
2008	Westbere Lakes, male, 29th December.

Ring-necked Duck

RING-NECKED DUCK

Aythya collaris

Vagrant

1972	Stodmarsh, adult male, 9th April.
1977	Westbere, adult male, 2nd February.
	Sevenoaks, adult male, 15th April.
	Sevenoaks, adult male, 27th November.
1979	ARC Pits, Dungeness, adult male, 25th December to 26th February 1980.
1980	Dungeness RSPB, adult male, 23rd November to 28th January 1981. Assumed to be returning bird of previous year.
1992	Dungeness RSPB, adult male, 2nd May.
1999	Seaton Gravel Pits, first-winter male, 9th-16th January.
	Dungeness RSPB, male, 16th-26th May.
2000	Bough Beech Reservoir, pair, 2nd-23rd April.
2001	Cliffe Pools, male, 18th-22nd February.
2002	Cliffe Pools, adult male, 13th January to 20th February.
	Collard’s Lake, Stodmarsh, adult male, 13th-20th January.
	Grain, drake, same bird as Cliffe, 4th-10th March.
	Seaton, adult male, 29th March to 25th April.
2003	Collard’s Lake, Stodmarsh, adult male, 23rd-25th March.
2004	Scotney Gravel Pits, female or immature, 3rd-26th January.
	Lade Pits, female or immature, 18th-19th January, presumed same as Scotney bird.
	Dungeness RSPB, female or immature, 23rd-26th January, presumed same as Scotney and Lade bird.
	Westbere, adult male, 7th-8th March.
	Collard’s Lake, male, 28th March to 9th April.
2005	Stodmarsh, 24th March.
	Bough Beech Reservoir, female, 30th November to 1st December.
2006	Bough Beech Reservoir, female, 10th December until year end.
2007	Bough Beech Reservoir, female, from 2006 remained until 16th April.
2008	Scotney, first-year male, 16th-17th November.
2012	Dungeness RSPB, male, 10th and again 12th April.
	Dungeness RSPB, male, possibly same bird as earlier in year, 9th December.
2013	Conningbrook GP, Ashford, male, 14th-18th April. Presumably the same bird was seen at Lade Pits on 25th April, and again at Dungeness RSPB on 2nd May.
2016	Dungeness RSPB, adult drake, 8th November until year end.
2017	Dungeness RSPB, adult drake, remained from 2016 until 3rd May.
2018	Abbey Mead Pit, New Hythe, drake, 19th December until year end.
2019	Abbey Mead Pit, New Hythe, drake, from new year until 29th March.

Lesser Scaup

King Eider

Surf Scoter

Hooded Merganser

White-billed Diver

Black-browed Albatross

Storm Petrel

STORM PETREL

Hydrobates pelagicus

Rare Passage Vagrant

1952	Lower Hope Point, 3rd November.
1953	Royal Sovereign Lightship, 14th-16th November.
	Dungeness Peninsula, 15th December.
1954	South Goodwin Lightship, two, 6th November.
	South Goodwin Lightship, 20th November.
	South Goodwin Lightship, 25th November.
1957	Shellness, Isle of Sheppey, two, 13th October.
1959	Cliffe Pools, two, 1st November.
1960	Dungeness Peninsula, 3rd April.
1961	Reculver, 14th October.
1964	Maidstone, found dead, 17th October.
1967	Stodmarsh, one east, 9th January.
1970	Dungeness Peninsula, found exhausted, 11th October.
	Shellness, Isle of Sheppey, two, 21st October. Presumably same seen later at North Foreland.
1971	Shellness, Isle of Sheppey, three, 10th October.
	Shellness, Isle of Sheppey, 11th October.
	Shellness, Isle of Sheppey, 19th October.
1973	Shellness, Isle of Sheppey, two, 8th December.
1974	Dover, 12th October.
	Shellness, Isle of Sheppey, 30th October.
1975	Shellness, Isle of Sheppey, 9th November.
	Gravesend, 9th November.
1977	Dover Harbour, 27th November.
1978	Allhallows, 30th September.
	Shellness, Isle of Sheppey, 16th December.
1979	Dover, found on Dover-Boulogne ferry, 13th December. Released next day.
1980	Foreness, 11th October.
	Shellness, Isle of Sheppey, five, 11th October.
	Seasalter, 11th October.
	Dungeness Peninsula, 26th October.
1981	Dungeness Peninsula, 26th December.
1982	Dover, 4th October.
	Sandwich Bay, one north, 7th October.
1983	Dartford, 7th September.
	Dungeness Peninsula, 15th October.
	Lower Hope Point, 6th November.
1984	Minnis Bay, 5th November.
1985	Sandwich Bay, 5th November.
	Foreness, 10th November.
	Foreness, 18th November.
	Foreness, 27th December.
1986	Dungeness Peninsula, one west, 13th September.
	Dover, 27th October.
1987	Folkestone, 1st January.
	Minnis Bay, 18th September.
	Dungeness Peninsula, 9th October.
	Sandwich Bay, 10th October.
	North Foreland, 10th October.
	North Foreland, two south, 18th October.
	Foreness, three east, 2nd December.
1988	Dover Harbour, 7th December.
	Dungeness Peninsula, two west, 28th October.
1991	Sandwich Bay, one south, 9th January.
	Kingsnorth (Ashford), 19th October.
	Minnis Bay, one east, 20th November.
1993	Shellness, Isle of Sheppey, 29th October.
1995	Sandwich Bay, one south, 27th November.
1996	Dungeness Bird Observatory, four west, 9th July.
	Underriver, nr. Sevenoaks, fell exhausted into farmyard, 10th December. Recovered and later released.
1997	Foreness, one east, 17th December.
1998	Dungeness Bird Observatory, one west, 12th July.
1999	Staplehurst, found dead, 2nd January.
	Reculver, one west, 19th November.
	Sandwich Bay, three birds ringed, dates to be confirmed.
2000	Greenhithe, one west, 30th October.
	Thames at Cliffe, ten west and two east, 30th October.
	Thames at Dartford, 30th October.
	Cliffe Pools, 30th October.
	Copt Point, 31st October.
	Dungeness Bird Observatory, two west, 31st October.
	Higham Bight, one east, 31st October.
	Stone Marshes, 31st October.
	Dungeness, two west, 2nd November.
	Dungeness, two, one accepted, the other accepted as Petrel sp., 5th November.
2002	Dungeness RSPB, exhausted bird picked up, 26th May.
2003	Reculver, one east, 14th October.
	Reculver, 15th October.
	Reculver, 23rd October.
2004	Cliffe, 11th October.
2005	Dungeness Bird Observatory, one west, 6th November, was seen to be taken by Merlin, Falco columbarius.
2006	In the last week of May, following a severe storm, there was an unprecedented westerly passage of this species through the channel.
	Bockhill, single bird flew south, 20th May.
	Bockhill, two birds flew south, 21st May.
	Dungeness, forty-three birds flew west, 21st May.
	Various coastal sites recorded one to four birds up to 27th may.
	Copt Point, eleven birds flew west, 24th May.
	Dungeness, nineteen birds flew west, 22nd May.
	Dungeness, eighty birds flew west, 23rd May.
	Dungeness, one hundred and thirty-three (133) birds flew west, 24th May.
	Dungeness, fifty-six birds flew west, 25th May.
	Dungeness, twenty-nine birds flew west, 26th May.
	Dungeness, thirty-six birds flew west, 27th May.
	Dungeness, fifteen birds flew west, 28th May.
	Minnis Bay, single bird flew east, 3rd August.
	Dungeness, single bird flew west, 25th October.
2008	Dungeness Bird Observatory, three birds flew west, 9th July.
	Reculver, single bird, 5th October.
2017	A severe storm system swept through the English Channel in early June creating a significant movement of Storm Petrels from the North Sea area into the Straits of Dover and along the east and south Kent coast. Duplication of sightings was highly likely, with peak counts at Dungeness as follows – Dungeness, 26 birds flew west, 7th June. Dungeness, 40 birds flew west, 8th June. Dungeness, single bird flew west, 9th June.

Cory’s Shearwater

Great Shearwater

Pied-billed Grebe

Black Stork

Glossy Ibis

GLOSSY IBIS

Plegadis falcinellus

Rare Vagrant

1852	Near Reading Street, Tenterden, shot, December.
1857	Swanscombe Marsh, no date.
1902	Romney Marsh, four, one shot, mid-September; remaining birds shot 14th October.
1903	Rother Levels, nr. Wittersham, four, last three weeks of September, immature male shot, 14th, all gone by 25th October.
1916	Near Sturry, January.
1974	Swanscombe Marsh, 11th April to 12th May.
1975	Stodmarsh, 14th December.
1976	Stodmarsh, 21st January and through spring and summer, later at Grove/Preston until May 1977.
1977	Grove, 2nd January and between there and Stodmarsh until 12th March, 30th April, again 1st May to 19th June and 24th September until the end of the year. Also seen on Sheppey, 15th May, 27th August and 1st and 4th September, and at Graveney on 25th September. All same as 1975 individual.
1978	Swale, 1st January; Stodmarsh, 7th January to 14th May; Westbere, 10th June; Sheppey, 28th August; Minster 3rd September; Ash Level, 4th September; Stodmarsh, 9th September to end of year, same as 1975 individual.
1979	Stodmarsh, 13th January to 29th June and 10th August to end of year; another, 28th October to end of year; Sandwich Bay, 4th may, 17th November; Swale, occasionally, 19th April to 7th October, same as 1975 individual
	Stodmarsh, another, 28th October to end of year.
1980	Stodmarsh, two, 1st January to 21st May and 26th September to end of year; Elmley, 11th May to 7th September, two, 30th July 7th September, same as 1975 and 1975 individuals.
1981	Stodmarsh, two, since 1980 to end of April and from late August to end of year, summering on Sheppey, but absent during early May.
1982	Stodmarsh, two, since 1975 and 1979, to early April, 8th September and from early October to end of year, summering on Sheppey.
1983	Stodmarsh, two, since 1975 and 1979, to 6th March and from 27th-28th August and 1st September to end of year, summering on Sheppey.
1984	Stodmarsh, two, since 1975 and 1979, to 12th April and 13th October to end of year, summering on Sheppey, 14th April to 22nd July.
1985	Stodmarsh and Stour Valley area, two since 1975 and 1979, to 3rd February, one to 9th April; one 25th October to end of year; one of same, Sheppey, 6th May to 17th August.
1986	Stodmarsh and Stour Valley area, one of 1985 individuals, 1st January to 16th April, 24th October to end of year; same, Sheppey 4th June to 24th August.
	Dungeness, 6th October.
1987	Seaton, two, 25th April, probably same as East Sussex individuals, 25th-27th.
	Stodmarsh, 1986 individual, 1st January to 1st March, 24th October to end of year; same, Seasalter, 31st January, and Sheppey, 29th May to 18th August.
1988	Stodmarsh area, 1987 individual, 1st January to 15th April, 25th October to end of year; same, Sheppey, 14th and 30th May.
1989	Stodmarsh area, 1988 individual, 1st January to 7th May, 24th June, 31st July to end of year; same, Elmley and Sheppey area, 18th May to 2nd August.
1990	Brookland, 14th May, presumed not Stodmarsh bird.
	Stodmarsh area, 1989 individual, 1st January to mid-March, intermittently May to end of August, regularly to end of year; same, Sheppey, 20th April.
1991	Stodmarsh area, 1990 individual January to March, 27th-28th April, regularly in May, 16th August to end of year; same, Elmley, 17th-18th May, 27th-30th June.
1992	Stodmarsh area, since 1991 to 4th April, 1st August to 1993; same Sheppey, 21st-28th March, 29th April to 31st May, 18th-22nd July.
2001	Dungeness/Lydd area, 24th-25th October.
2007	Dungeness RSPB, single bird on Burrowes Pit, 9th May.
2009	Stodmarsh and Grove Ferry, single bird, 6th-15th September.
	Oare Marshes, single bird, 11th-12th September.
	Dungeness RSPB, five birds arrived on the evening of 21st September, dwindling to two by the end of October. These two remaining until 14th December.
	Sandwich Bay, three birds arrived on the evening of 21st September.
	Stoke Lagoon, single bird, 8th-20th October.
	Swalecliffe, immature, 8th October.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird flew south, 11th October.
	Ham Road GP, single bird, 16th December.
2010	Dungeness RSPB, eighteen (18) birds, 13th-15th September.
	East Malling, seven birds, 11th October.
2011	Dungeness and Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 10th-21st January.
	Yalding, single bird, 25th April.
	Dungeness and Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 6th-7th December.
	Stodmarsh, two, first-winter, 27th October until year end.
2012	Stodmarsh, two birds, from 2011 until at least 18th March.
	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 14th-20th February.
2013	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 6th October to 15th November.
	Stour Valley, single bird, 14th-23rd October.
	Cliffe Pools, single bird, 13th November.
	Reculver, single bird, 28th December.
	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 5th-31st December.
	Oare Marshes, single bird, 31st December.
2014	Pegwell Bay, single bird, 2ndJanuary, and later that same day at Grove Ferry, remaining in the Stour valley until the 12th, when it was joined by a second bird until the 20th.
	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, first seen in October 2013, was seen almost daily through to 27th February.
	Dungeness RSPB, another bird, or possibly same, was seen on 15th March, with two present on 3rd May, one remaining until 20th October.
	Shellness/Oare Marshes, two birds, 14th-19th January.
	Pegwell Bay, single bird, on eight dates between 16th August and 1st September.
2016	Two individuals were reported from various sites throughout the year (refer to KBR 2016).
2018	Swalecliffe, single bird, 23rd January.
	Stodmarsh/Grove Ferry, single bird, 8th-11th May.
	Oare Marshes, single bird, 26th July until 1st August.
2019	Oare Marshes, single bird, 19th-22nd March, and 17th April.
No Longer Accepted
1830	Blendon Hall Park, Bexley, April. NB: No longer in modern Kent.

Little Bittern

Night-Heron

NIGHT-HERON

Nycticorax nycticorax

Rare but regular vagrant

1839	Near Lydd, 24th May, now at Dover museum.
1890	Milton decoy, shot, winter.
1947	Near Brookland, Romney Marsh, adult male, 11th May.
1951	Romney Marsh, 4th May.
1953	Sheerness, immature, 16th October to 11th November.
1955	Angley Lake, Cranbrook, immature, 6th August to 6th September.
1958	Mersham, nr. Ashford, immature, dead, 10th February.
1968	Murston, adult, 17th April.
	Stodmarsh, adult, 18th-19th June.
1969	Stodmarsh, 23rd-30th July.
	Stodmarsh, 19th August.
	Stodmarsh, 23rd-24th September.
1970	Yalding, immature, 2nd May.
1971	Faversham, adult, 2nd April, died 14th, now in Harrison Museum, Sevenoaks.
1973	Cottington Court, 27th June.
1974	Walland Marsh, immature, 2nd October.
1978	Richborough, adult, 4th June.
	Sevenoaks, second-year, 17th July.
1982	Sandwich Bay, juvenile, 23rd October.
1983	St. Margaret’s Bay, adult, 29th May.
1984	Ashford, adult, 29th May.
1985	Stodmarsh, adult, 16th May; presumed same Westbere 18th.
1987	Sevenoaks, adult, 1st-4th May.
	Lydd, first-summer, 16th May.
	Bough Beech Reservoir, first-summer, 24th May.
	Foreness, first-summer, 29th May.
	Stodmarsh, first-summer, 18th August.
1989	Sevenoaks, adult or second-summer, 28th August and 3rd September.
1990	Dymchurch, adult, 25th March.
	Dungeness, adult, 16th April.
	Dungeness, two adults, 29th April, same Lade, also 29th.
1993	Dungeness, second-summer, 26th May.
	Ham Fen, second-summer, 28th May.
1994	Dungeness, first-summer, 5th June.
1996	Dungeness, two adults, 28th April to 9th August.
1997	Dungeness, sub-adult, 15th-17th June.
	Cranbrook, adult, 12th July to 23rd August.
1998	Sevenoaks, juvenile, 7th-16th November.
1999	Dungeness, two adults, one second-summer, 10th-11th April.
	Dungeness, first-summer, 30th April.
	Appledore, adult, 16th-24th May.
2004	Bockhill, sub-adult flew south-west, 20th December.
2005	Boughton Park, first summer, 28th May.
2006	Dungeness, single bird on Long Pits, later flew to Oppen Pits, 28th April.
2008	Military Canal, West Hythe, adult, 22nd November to year end.
2009	Military Canal, West Hythe, adult, from November 2008, remained until 24th January, when it flew south.
2011	Wickhambreaux, juvenile, 3rd July.
	Stodmarsh, two juveniles, 11th July.
2012	New Romney, single bird,18thMay.
2014	Bough Beech, first summer bird, 30thMay until 13th July.
2015	Nickolls Quarry, West Hythe, juvenile, 14th-23rd January.
2016	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 8th-10th June.
2019	Conningbrook CP, Ashford, adult bird, 8th April until 12th May.
	Marshside, Chislet Marshes, 22nd June.
No Longer Accepted
1883	Plumstead Marshes, immature male, shot, 3rd December. NB: not in modern Kent.

Green Heron

Squacco Heron

Chinese Pond Heron

Cattle Egret

CATTLE EGRET

Bubulcus ibis

Rare Vagrant

1992	Stodmarsh, adult, 7th-8th May.
1993	Dungeness, adult in summer plumage, 1st May; presumed same, Sandwich Bay, 2nd.
1995	Stodmarsh, 15th May.
1998	Graveney, 16th-22nd January.
	Oare Marsh, 12th-13th April.
	Walland Marsh, three, 28th June to 1st July; presumed one of same, Dungeness Reserve, 2nd July.
1999	Oare Marshes, 12th-13th April.
2001	Dungeness Reserve, adult, 30th August.
2005	Oare Marshes, partial summer, flew off east, 24th May.
	Sandwich Bay, partial summer, 24th May. Different bird than that at Oare Marshes.
	Sandwich Bay, adult, 4th August.
	Elmley, adult, 22nd September to 22nd November. Also reported at Oare Marshes, 28th September, and at South Swale LNR, 20th November.
2006	Samphire Hoe, single bird, present for five minutes before flying off west, 24th April.
	Grove Ferry, single bird, 23rd July to 7th August.
	Elmley RSPB, two birds roosting, 7th September.
	Dungeness, single bird, 18th-20th September.
2007	Sevenoaks WR, single bird, 31st January.
	Grove Ferry, adult and juvenile, 21st-22nd July, with the juvenile remaining until 24th.
	Grove Ferry, two birds, 19th October.
2008	Walmer Castle, adult, 19th April.
	Harty Church, adult, 18th November.
2009	Elmley, single bird, flew south, 14th August.
	Lydd-on-Sea, single bird, 11th October, moving to Dungeness RSPB on 12th, and remaining in the area until 17th December.
2010	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 6th-23rd August.
	Dartford Marshes, single bird, possibly the Dungeness bird, 26th August, seen to fly across Thames towards Rainham, Essex.
2011	Wouldham, single bird, 29th July.
2012	Elmley RSPB, single bird, 15th-26th August.
	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 30th August.
	Dungeness RSPB, single bird 18th December.
2013	North Quarry, Cliffe, adult coming into summer plumage, 14th May. Probably the same bird was later seen at Higham Marshes on 15th and 17th.
	Grove Ferry, non-breeding adult, remained in area until 11th May, and was relocated at Higham/Shorne Marshes from 14th-18th.
	Northward Hill RSPB, full breeding plumage, 18th-22nd May.
	Dungeness RSPB, single bird,20th-21st May, later relocated at Lade Pits on 24th.
2014	Dengemarsh Road, Lydd, three birds, 2nd June.
	Dengemarsh, a single bird, 1st October, was joined by a second on 3rd November, and a third on 15th.The three remained until the 19th, with the remaining two present until the year end.
2015	Dungeness area, two birds remained from 2014 until at least 26th April and up to five were seen going to roost on 14th January.
	Nr. Ham Street Woods, single bird, possibly one of the Dungeness birds, was recorded from 9th-15th February, 23rd-24th March, and from 2nd-19th May.
	Worth Marshes, single bird, 10^th June.
	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 9^thSeptember until 4^th October.
	Preston Marshes, single bird, 12th September.
2016	Biddenden, single bird, 6th February until 17th April.
	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 19th June until 9th December.
	Grove Ferry, three birds, 30th July.
	Sandwich, single bird, 18th-19th August.
	Samphire Hoe, single bird, 3rd December.
	Preston/Chislet Marshes, single bird, 29th October until 21st December.
	Biddenden, single bird, 16th-28th December.
2017	Biddenden, single bird from 2016, remained until 2nd January.
	Wickhambreaux/Stodmarsh area, single bird, 2nd-15th January.
	Grove Ferry/Stodmarsh/Collards Lake area, single bird, 10th-24th April.
	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 5th-11th June.
	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 6th-9th July.
	Dungeness RSPB, adult and four juveniles, 31st August until 12th September.
	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 16th-29th October.
2018	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 20th-28th April.
	Swalecliffe, single bird flew south-east, 5th May.
	Grove Ferry, single, 6th May
	Stodmarsh, single, 7th and again 28th-29th July.
	Cooling Marshes, single bird, 3rd June.
	Dungeness RSPB, up to 13 birds, 30th August until 31st December.
	Elmley, up to 7 birds, 15th September until 8th December.
	Ramsgate, flock of 20 birds flew south, 20th October.
	Dartford Marshes, single bird, 30th October
	Worth Marshes/SBBO/Hackinge, single bird, 11th November until 19th December.
	Grain, single bird, 18th November.
	Upper Stoke, single bird, 25th November.
No Longer Accepted
1974	Wittersham/Maytham, 8th-15th August, probable escape.

Purple Heron

PURPLE HERON

Ardea purpurea

Uncommon Passage Migrant

1838	Romney Marsh, immature, obtained, September.
1847	Lydd, 29th March.
1862	Romney Marsh, 1st May.
1876	Romney Marsh, 1st May.
1894	Kemsley, 1st May.
1925	Romney Marsh, two birds, 6th April.
1936	Stour Valley/Sandwich, 17th and 18th May.
1941	Deal, 2nd May.
	Romney Marsh, male, obtained, 12th May, now at Maidstone Museum.
1948	Gravesend, 27th March.
1958	Stoke, 2nd-10th August.
1961	Sandwich Bay, 7th July.
	Snargate, Romney Marsh, 9th August.
1963	Dungeness area, 5th May.
	Egypt Bay, 9th May.
	Tenterden, 19th July.
1964	Sandwich Bay, 8th April.
	Dungeness area, 20th May.
1966	Chetney, 3rd-4th August.
1967	Capel Fleet, Sheppey, 12th-25th June.
	Stodmarsh, 24th to 31st July.
1968	Stodmarsh, 27th April.
	Reculver, 11th August.
1969	Grove Ferry, 4th May.
	Sandwich Bay, 31st August to 30th September.
1970	Stodmarsh, adult, 24th-31st May.
	Stodmarsh, 24th July to 13th August.
1971	Chetney, 31st March.
	Kennington, Ashford, 23rd-24th April, with possibly same bird Stodmarsh, Apr 25th-May 19th.
	Sandwich Bay, 7th May.
	Sandwich Bay, 15th-16th May.
	Medway Estuary, 6th August.
1972	Stodmarsh, 1st June.
	Sandwich Bay, 21st-22nd June.
	Sevenoaks, 17th August.
	Marden, 9th-19th September.
1973	Stodmarsh, 29th April.
	Murston Pits, 20th May.
	Dungeness area, 29th July.
1974	Dungeness area, 21st April.
	Stodmarsh, two birds, 19th May.
	Sandwich Bay, 10th September.
1975	Dungeness area, 19th April.
1976	Sevenoaks, 2nd May.
	Stodmarsh, 30th May.
	Stodmarsh, 6th June.
	Sandwich Bay, 19th-22nd June.
1977	Sandwich Bay, 20th May.
	Fordwich, 1st June.
1978	Sandwich Bay, 20th April, with probably same bird on 29th April.
	Fordwich, 25th May.
	Stodmarsh, 29th-30th June.
	Dungeness area, 8th August
	St. Margaret’s, 17th October.
	Elmley Reserve, 13th November.
1979	Westbere, 19th-22nd May.
	Stodmarsh, 17th June.
1980	Stodmarsh, 18th May.
	Stodmarsh, 25th June.
	Stodmarsh, 10th July.
1981	Fordwich, 18th-28th April.
	Reculver, 24th May.
	Yantlet Creek, 11th July.
1982	Dungeness RSPB, 27th May.
	Stodmarsh, 30th October.
1983	Stour Valley, 22nd-26th April.
	Foreness, flying east, 8th May.
	Sandwich Bay, flying west, 14th May.
1984	Minnis Bay, 22nd August to 6th October.
1985	Capel Fleet, Sheppey, 27th April, and again 4th May.
	Hayesden, 25th July to 5th September.
	Dartford Marshes, 13th-14th September.
1986	Sandwich Bay, 1st May.
	Westbere/Stodmarsh, 31st May to 1st June.
1987	Dungeness area, 20th-21st April.
	Sandwich Bay, 20th April.
	Stodmarsh, 20th April.
	Folkestone, 28th July.
	Dungeness, flying south-west, 6th August.
	Worth Marshes, 20th-21st August.
	Minnis Bay, 19th-22nd October.
1988	Dungeness area, 20th May.
	Dungeness area, 12th September.
1989	Dungeness RSPB, 1st April.
	Dungeness RSPB, 20th May.
1990	Reculver, 6th May.
	Westbere, 7th-12th May.
	Grove Ferry, 21st July.
	Reculver, one east, 24th October.
1991	Dungeness RSPB, 31st May.
	Stodmarsh, 4th June, possibly same bird as Dungeness.
1992	Copt Point, Folkestone, sub-adult, in off sea, 15th May.
	ARC pits, Dungeness, 23rd May.
	Oare Marshes, 1st August.
1994	Foreness, one south-west, 18th August.
	Sandwich Bay, juvenile, 14th September.
1996	Stodmarsh, one south, 22nd April.
	Binney Farm/Reservoir, Allhallows, first summer, 6th May.
	Dungeness RSPB, 12th May. Also seen at Lydd and Lade, same date.
1997	Brooksend, Minnis Bay, adult, 27th-29th April.
	Pegwell Bay, adult, 1st-4th May. Considered to be same bird as Brooksend.
	Denge Marsh, juvenile, 6th September.
1998	Walland Marsh, adult, 28th May to 21st June.
1999	Sandwich Bay, 29th March.
	Sandwich Bay, 8th-9th May.
	Stodmarsh, immature, 15th May.
	Dungeness, one north, 21st-22nd May.
	Grove Ferry, juvenile, 30th July to 11th August.
	Minnis Bay/Reculver, juvenile, 26th July-3rd October. Seen widely around Chambers Wall/Wantsum area.
	Stoke Fleet, immature, 29th August to 3rd October.
	Grove Ferry, juvenile, 1st September.
2000	Bough Beech, 6th April.
	Swale NNR, adult, 1st May.
	Dungeness, two adults, in off sea, 6th May.
	Lydd Golf Course, adult flying east, 7th May.
	Reculver, 13th August.
	Minnis Bay/Reculver, juvenile, 13th August to 10th September. Seen around Chambers Wall, Reculver and Marshside.
2001	Dungeness RSPB, 20th May.
	Long Pits, Dungeness, first summer, 20th June.
2003	Capel-le-Ferne, one flew East, 13th April.
2004	Pegwell Bay, adult flew north, 22nd April.
	Elmley, sub-adult, 14th-15th May.
	North Foreland, immature flew west, 15th May.
	Brooksend, Minnis Bay, 4th June.
	Dungeness RSPB, 30th September.
2006	Bough Beech, single bird flew north, 21st April.
	Dungeness, immature flew out to sea, 30th August.
2007	St. Nicholas-at-Wade, single bird few in to land, 10th June.
2008	Sandwich Bay BO, adult first seen on beach and later near observatory, 20th April.
	Dungeness RSPB, adult, 6th May.
2009	Reculver, single bird, arrived from south, 23rd May.
2010	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 27th-28th April, with second bird joining it on 29th-30th April. These birds were soon seen carrying nesting material, and quickly became Britain’s first successful breeding pair, fledging two young. The first bird to fledge did so on 3rd August, and the second on 6th or 7th. The last sighting of any bird was the adult female on 30th August.
	Sandwich Bay BO, single bird, 20th May.
	Stodmarsh, single bird, possibly that from Sandwich, 23rd May.
2012	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 5th-13th June.
	Stodmarsh/Grove Ferry, juvenile, 29th June-1st July, again 25^th July to 3^rd August, and finally 19th-27th August.
	Oare Marshes, juvenile, 29th-30th July.
2013	Pegwell Bay, single bird, 22ndApril.
	Dengemarsh Gully, Dungeness, single bird flushed, 6th May.
2014	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 22ndApriluntil 2nd May.
	Nicholl’s Quarry, Palmarsh, single bird, 16th May.
2015	Pegwell Bay, single bird, April 15^th.
	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, May 13th.
2016	Reculver, single bird, 11th-12th April, and subsequently seen at Stodmarsh on the 13th, and at Sandwich on 14th.
	Dungeness, single bird, 28th April.
	Grove Ferry, single bird, 15th-25th May.
	Pegwell Bay, single bird, 20th May, may have been the same as at Grove Ferry.
	Reculver, juvenile, 15th August.
	Elmley, juvenile, 28th August until 29th September.
	Allhallows, freshly dead young bird, 24th September.
2018	Sevenoaks WR, juvenile, 20th July.
	Cliffe Pools, juvenile, 11th August until 1st September.
	Swalecliffe, juvenile, 31st August.
2019	Stodmarsh, adult, 22nd-30th June.

Great White Egret

GREAT WHITE EGRET

Ardea alba

Vagrant, becoming increasingly common, especially during winter months.

1977	Stodmarsh, 5th may; later same day at St. Margaret’s Bay.
1988	Dungeness, 3rd August.
1990	Dungeness, 8th August;presumed same, Stodmarsh 23rd August to mid-October, also in Sussex.
1995	Dungeness, 13th August.
1996	Bough Beech Reservoir, 5th-14th January; same as East Sussex, West Sussex, and Hampshire.
1998	Dungeness, 8th-14th July.
1999	Elmley, 6th August.
2000	Bough Beech Reservoir, 2nd September; possibly same as East Sussex, 30th July.
	Dungeness, 22nd October; presumed same, Walland Marsh, 25th-28th.
	Newenden, 13th-16th December.
2002	Nr. Cliffe, 8th-9th July.
	Elmley, 11th-26th August.
	Capel Fleet, 20th October.
2003	Scotney GP, colour-ringed bird, 12th-17th July, and again Dungeness RSPB, 21st July.
	Pegwell Bay, 22nd August, flew off North-East.
2004	Bough Beech, 31st August to 1st September, had been colour-ringed as nestling at Lac du Grand-Lieu in western France on 15th May 2004. It was later seen in South Yorkshire on 2nd-22nd September.
	Cliffe Pools, 1st September, also colour-ringed. It was later seen at Rye Harbour on 26th September.
2005	Seaton, single birds reported on 15th January, 13th February, and 12th March, probably same individual.
	Elmley, 3 birds, 17th October.
	Dungeness, same 3 birds flew SE out to sea, 18th October.
2006	Harty Marshes, single bird, 8th-10th February.
	Grove Ferry, single bird, 9th July.
	Seasalter, single bird, 11th September.
2007	Dungeness, one flew in off sea, 15th August.
	Sandwich Bay, one flew south, 27th November.
2008	Stodmarsh/Westbere, single bird, 6th June.
	Dengemarsh, possibly same bird as previous record, 10th June.
	Grain/Stoke Lagoon, single bird, 13th and 15th October.
2009	Sandwich Bay, one flew NW, 3rd April.
	Stoke Lagoon/Yantlet Marsh, single bird, 10th-13th April.
	Oare Marshes, single bird, 23rd May.
	Reculver, single bird, flew NW, 29th June.
	Elmley, single bird flew south, 29th September.
	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 15th August, remained in Dengemarsh area until 14th December.
2010	West Hythe, single bird, 10th January, and lingered on until the end of February.
	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, possibly that from West Hythe, 2nd March, being recorded almost daily until 2nd October at least.
	Wouldham, single bird, 10th October.
	Eastwell Lake, two birds in trees, 20th October.
2011	Reculver, single bird, 2nd October.
	Reculver, two individuals, 6th October.
	Bilting, nr. Godmersham, single bird, 1st November.
	Herne Common, single bird, 25th November.
2012	There was a minimum of four birds touring the county during January, with eight birds reported during February. In March there were possibly five birds. Only one bird was reported during April, that from Dungeness RSPB, with only two during May. These three reports, for April and May, were probably new migrants. There was only one record during July, with five birds reported during August. During September there was up to five birds present in the Stour Valley, with two more in the Dungeness area. Dungeness produced up to five birds towards the end of October, with seven birds reported from elsewhere, including that of three birds at Rodmersham. November produced reports of up to nine birds, with up to four on Dungeness RSPB reserve on several dates to the 23rd. Five birds were found on the Dungeness RSPB during December, with two other records from elsewhere.
	Overall, an estimated minimum of 15 individuals were present in the County during the year, with a possible total of 20 birds.
2013	There were many records throughout the year, but as is becoming the norm, the majority was from South during winter. Overall there was a probable minimum of 50 individuals during the year, with a possible total as high as 70.
2014	Like recent years there were many records throughout 2014, and as usual the majority was from South during winter. This year there was a probable minimum of 40 individuals over the period, with a possible total as high as 50.
2015	During the first winter period there were regular counts of between three and five birds at Dungeness RSPB Reserve with reports of presumably the same birds elsewhere on the peninsula. There was a maximum count there of 12 on 7th February. Away from Dungeness, single birds were seen at Conningbrook between 11th-29th, one at Shorne on the 23rd, and at Bockhill on the 30th. Up to four birds were recorded at Dungeness throughout the spring while elsewhere in the county there was one at Pegwell-Sandwich on 8th-28thMarch, two at Chetney on the 8th, with five near Hamstreet on 10th April, one at Reculver on the 18th and one at Bough Beech on 11th-22nd. During the summer the maximum count in the Dungeness area was two on 25th March and four at Scotney on 18th June. Elsewhere there was one at Stodmarsh from 19th- 28th May, one at South Swale on the 23rd. There was one at Bough Beech from June 9th-17th June, one at Sandwich Bay on the 12th, one at Pegwell Bay on 29th-30th July and one at Capel Fleet on 8th -22nd August. Throughout the autumn and winter, birds were recorded at Dungeness with a maximum of 10 birds at Dungeness RSPB Reserve on 10th October. Elsewhere single birds were at Elmley on 23rd-29th September, at Reculver on 5th October and 1st November, two at Samphire Hoe on 18th October, and one at Stodmarsh from 5th November until 27th December with, presumably, the same bird being seen at Seaton on 16th November and 15th December.
2016	At Dungeness birds were present throughout the year with up to eight in the first winter period but only one or two birds during the spring and early summer. There was an influx of birds later in the year with 12 in July, 11 in September, 16 in October, 17 in November and 13 in December. Elsewhere in the county birds were seen periodically throughout the year at Bough Beech, on the Swale and Sheppey, in the Stour Valley and Pegwell Bay areas. Other records included sightings at Eastwell Park on 10th-15th January, at Conningbrook on 13th January and 14th December, at East Farleigh on 11th May, at Grain on 9th October and at Darenth on 29th November.
2017	The Dungeness peninsula was the most important area for this species with 15 throughout January, one or two birds summering and then an influx of ten birds in September with up to 20 birds in October, numbers then declining to 10 in November and six in December. Elsewhere in the county there were records of single birds in the coastal wetlands of the Thames, Medway, Swale and Pegwell Bay but is unknown how many refer to the same bird. Eight birds were seen in the Stour Valley on Sept 24th and two birds were seen in Pegwell Bay. A colour ringed bird that had been ringed as a nestling in the Somerset Levels earlier in the year and seen at Sandwich on July 17th remained until mid-August giving a clue to the origin of some of these birds.
2018	Great White Egret were recorded throughout the year, with most birds seen in the southern region around Dungeness. Throughout the first winter period there were up to five birds at Dungeness, there were three birds at Shellness on Feb 19th, and single birds at Bough Beech, Appledore, Wye, Conningbrook, Godmersham, Stodmarsh and Pegwell Sandwich. In spring there were four at Bough Beech on April 7th, up to three at Dungeness, two at both Worth and Finberry and single birds in the Stour valley, South Foreland, Oare Marshes, and Bough Beech. In the summer there were single birds at Dungeness, Oare Marshes, Stour Valley and Sandwich Bay. In June and July there were up to four birds at Dungeness, four at East Farleigh on 15th, one at Cliffe on 15th and in Stour Valley. In August there were up to seven at Dungeness, singles at Capel Fleet 8th – 30th, Bough Beech 16th-25th, North Foreland on 21st, Cliffe Sevenoaks on 8th. In September thirteen birds arrived at Dungeness on 7th increasing to 18 by Oct 5th, with singles at Bough Beech, and Sheppey. In October there were seven at Pegwell Bay on 17th, two at Oare Marshes on the 8th, two at North Foreland on the 19th and singles in the Stour Valley, Bough Beech, Cliffe on 13th and Elmley. In November the peak at Dungeness was 15 on 4th, singles at Swale, Sandwich, Stodmarsh, Halstow, Oare Marshes and Bough Beech. In December the peak count at Dungeness was seven, with single birds in the Stour valley and at Cliffe.

Goshawk

GOSHAWK

Accipiter gentilis

Uncommon Vagrant

pre-1792	The ornithologist Boys lists a single record prior to this year, though no further details are known.
1844	SwingfieldMinnis, single bird, shot, date unknown.
pre-1893	Lydd, single bird, shot, date unknown.
pre 1899	Fredville, adult female, shot, date unknown..
1950	Cowden, female, 7th October.
1954	Site withheld, adult, 11th September.
	Another, same site, immature, 15th December.
1955	Site withheld, probably same bird as December previous year, 2nd April.
1958	Same site as 1954 and 1955, female, 11th October.
1962	Sandwich Bay, single females, 22nd April and 10th June, possibly same bird.
1965	Leysdown/Capel Hill, single bird, 25th June.
	Northward Hill, 14th-21st November.
1966	High Halstow, female trapped and ringed, 20th November.
1967	Northward Hill, female, 29th January.
	Northward Hill, possibly same female, three occasions between 5th February and 4th March.
1968	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 6th October.
1970	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 18th October.
1977	Reculver, female, 1st December.
1978	St. Margaret’s, single bird, 29th October.
1979	Stodmarsh, single bird, 4th April.
1980	Sandwich Bay, one in off sea, 19th October.
1982	Ightham, single bird taking Wood Pigeon, 5th November.
1983	Foreness, single bird found dead, 12th April.
	Wye, single bird, picked up injured, 26th December.
1984	Shorne, single bird, 30th October.
1986	Warehorne, female, 24th April.
1988	Godmersham, single bird, 8th February.
	Conningbrook, single bird, 26th February.
	Foreness, single bird west, 1st April.
	Seaton, single bird, 2nd November.
	Dungeness, single bird west, 31st October.
1991	West recording area, site withheld, male displaying, 14th January.
	St. Margaret’s, immature south-west, 16th March.
	Bough Beech, female, 10th April.
	Stodmarsh, single bird, 8th September.
	St. Margaret’s, male, 8th October.
1992	West Malling, immature taking Blackbird, 5th March.
1994	West recording area, site withheld, throughout year. Pair probably bred.
1995	West recording area, same site as 1994 withheld, Pair throughout year. Probably bred.
	East recording area, site withheld, male displaying,12th April
	Central recording area, site withheld, male displaying, 13th September.
1996	West recording area, same site as 1994 and 1995 withheld. Pair throughout year. Probably bred.
	Barksore, single bird, 23rd February.
	Reculver, single bird, 14th-15th September.
	Dungeness Reserve, single bird, 25th October.
1997	Reculver, female, 9th February.
1998	Dungeness Observatory, male, 7th April.
1999	Cliffe Pools, single bird, 19th March.
	Grove Ferry, single bird, 16th April.
	Hadlow, single bird, 10th May.
	Dungeness, single bird, 25th May.
	West, single bird, 19th August.
	Grain, single bird, 22nd September.
2005	Northdown Park, 31st January.
2007	New Barn, 14th December.
2008	Sandwich Bay BO, one south, 15th November.
2011	Sandling Park, Hythe, single bird, 9th January.
2012	Undisclosedsite, pair, 8th March.
	Cliffe, North Quarry, female, 15th March.
2013	Northward Hill RSPB, single bird, 21st April.
2014	Stodmarsh, single bird, 11th April.
	West sector, juvenile, 23rd August.
2018	Warden Point, single bird, 29th March.
	Dungeness, single bird, 19th April.
	Dengemarsh, single bird, 28th April.

Pallid Harrier

Black Kite

BLACK KITE

Milvus migrans

Uncommon Vagrant

1976	Luddesdown, one north, 8th May.
1980	Sandwich Bay, 17th May, same Chislet, 17th May.
	Dungeness, 28th May to 1st June.
1981	Pluckley, flying north-east, and two hours later at Naccolt, nr. Wye, 4th April.
	Hatch Park, 27th to 29th May.
1982	Dungeness RSPB, one north-west, 8th May.
	Sandwich Bay, adult, 16th May.
1983	Bough Beech Reservoir, 22nd April.
	Stodmarsh area, 4th May.
	Dymchurch, Lydd, and Dungeness, 8th May.
	Canterbury, 11th May.
	Ashford, 6th September.
1985	Eastchurch, Sheppey, 24th-26th May.
1986	Dungeness, 26th April.
	Wingham, 30th April.
	Dungeness, 28th May.
	Lyminge Forest, 11th June.
1987	St. Mary’s Bay, Dymchurch, and Dungeness, 2nd-4th May.
1988	Dungeness 12th-14th May.
	Warehorne/Ham Street, 22nd July.
1989	Dungeness RSPB, 27th May.
	Sandwich Bay, one north, 29th May.
1991	Broadstairs, 4th August.
1992	Higham Bight, one south, 24th May; same as East Tilbury (Essex)
	Stodmarsh area, 24th to 25th May, presumed different from previous bird.
1993	Farthingloe, nr. Dover, 26th May.
	Grain, 29th May.
	Worth Marshes, 16th June.
	St. Margaret’s, 20th June.
	Bishopstone, one west, 11th July.
	Dungeness Observatory, 7th August.
1994	Bough Beech Reservoir, one east over Winkhurst Wood, 24th April.
	Bough Beech Reservoir,9th May.
	Capel-le-Ferne, two, 9th May.
	Pegwell Bay, one south, 12th May.
	Langdon Cliffs, Dover, 13th May.
	St. Margaret’s Bay, 15th May.
	St. Margaret’s Bay, 30th May.
1995	Cheriton, one east, 20th April.
1998	Dungeness RSPB, one south-west, 24th April.
1999	Dungeness RSPB, 15th May.
	Dungeness Observatory, second spring, west, 21th May.
	Dungeness RSPB, 30th May.
2000	St. Margaret’s, first summer, west, 8th May.
	Stodmarsh, north-east, 8th May, possibly same as previous record.
	Dungeness area, 9th May, photo.
2003	Swalecliffe, 3rd May. Also at Margate and Bockhill same day.
	Pegwell Bay, one north-west, 31st May.
2004	Bockhill, one south-west, 10th May.
	Dungeness Observatory, possibly same bird as Bockhill, 12th May.
2005	Hythe, one flew east, 12th April.
2006	Bockhill, single bird flew south-west, 6th May.
	Abbotscliffe, two birds, 6th May.
	Cliffe, 9th May, and at Grain same day.
	Seaton and three other locations in Stour Valley, single bird on 20th May. Remained at Seaton until 21st.
2007	Bridge, nr. Canterbury, single bird, 28th April.
	Bramling, nr. Canterbury, single bird, 14th June.
	Thanet, juvenile reported from several locations, and later at Whitfield, 4th August, with probably the same bird the following day, at Bockhill.
2008	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 10th April.
	Bockhill, one flew north, 26th April, and again later west at Reculver.
	Dungeness, one over Long Pits, 2nd May.
	Haysden, single bird, 4th May.
	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 6th May.
2009	Sandwich Bay, single bird flew north, 21st March.
	Westenhanger, single bird flew north over M20, 22nd April.
	Boughton Street, Blean, single bird, 9th May.
	Dungeness, adult flew west over DBO and RSPB, 20th May.
	Dungeness, single moulting bird lingered in area, 22nd September.
2010	Tilmanstone, single bird, 24th April.
2011	Dungeness, single bird, 26th April.
	Victory Wood, Dargate, single bird, 17th May.
2012	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 15th May.
	Dungeness RSPB, single bird flew in off sea, 16th May.
2013	Brenley, nr. Faversham, single bird, 8th-19th May.
	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 10th October. Another, or same, on five dates between 13th and 26th November. Possibly same bird was at Sandwich Bay on 30th November and again on 6^th December.
2014	Bockhill, single bird flew south in company of two Red Kites, 18th May. Probably the same bird was seen on the following day at Aycliffe.
	Hildenborough, single bird, 29th May.
	Dungeness, single bird, 2nd June.
2015	Grove Ferry, single bird, 11th April.
	Grove Ferry, single bird, 9th May.
	Bockhill, then Worth Marshes and later Shuart Farm, single bird, 17th May.
	Ferry Marshes, Kingsferry, single bird, 22nd July.
2016	Pegwell Bay, single bird, 19th April.
	Shuart Farm, single bird, 5th May.
	Dover, single bird, 7th May.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 14th May.
	Bockhill, single bird, 15th May.
	Grove Ferry, single bird, 15th May.
	Tilmanstone, single bird, 4th June.
	North Foreland, single bird, 8th June.
	Hythe, single bird, 11th June.
	Lade Pits, single bird, 24th June.
2017	Cliffsend, Pegwell, single bird, 31st May.
2018	Seasalter, single bird, 18th April.
	Oare Marshes, possible same bird as Seasalter, 18th April.
2019	Reculver Marshes, single bird drifted south, 21st May.

White-tailed Eagle

WHITE-TAILED EAGLE

Haliaeetus albicilla

Rare Vagrant

1815	Cliffe, adult male, shot, 27th December.
1827	One, immature, was caught near Dover in winter.
1844	Romney Marsh, obtained prior to 1844.
1845	Canterbury, obtained prior to 1845.
1848	Cliffsend, Pegwell, shot, 3rd February.
1849	Deal, 24th February.
1850	Near the south coast, early January. (Harrison, 1953).
1869	Godmersham Park, nr. Wye, male, shot, 11th January. Now at Maidstone Museum.
1870	Chilham Park, killed, February/March. Now at Maidstone Museum.
	Chilham Castle, shot, 11th March. Now at Maidstone Museum.
1874	Eastwell Park, nr. Ashford, killed, date unknown. Now at Maidstone Museum. (Harrison, 1953).
1879	Two birds, High Halstow. One bird shot 8th November, with second bird remaining until 1st February 1880.
1880	See previous record. (Harrison, 1953).
1885	Eastwell Park, nr. Ashford, immature shot, date unknown. (Harrison, 1953).
	Minster Marshes, Thanet, immature female, shot, 12th November, now at Canterbury Museum. (Harrison, 1953).
1888	Eastwell Park, nr. Ashford, immature male, killed, date unknown. (Harrison, 1953).
	Lower Stour Marshes, shot, date unknown. (Harrison, 1953).
1889	Chilham, three immatures shot, date unknown. (Harrison, 1953).
	Weatherlees Hill, Richborough, date unknown. (Harrison, 1953).
1895	Eastwell Park, nr. Ashford, immature shot, 22nd December. (Harrison, 1953).
	One shot at Whitehill, Ramsgate, on 6th December.
1897	Penshurst Place, shot, date unknown. (Harrison, 1953).
1906	Ruckinge, 21st March. (Harrison, 1953).
1920	Surrenden Dering, 29th October. (Harrison, 1953).
1932	Whitfield, Dover, female shot, 8th March. Now at Maidstone Museum. (Harrison, 1953).
1988	Elmley, Sheppey, 16th November to year end.
1989	Elmley, Sheppey, and North Downs area. Present from 1988 until 25th January. Poisoned.
1990	St. Margaret’s, immature north, 22nd October.
1998	Graveney Marshes, juvenile, 7th-8th October.
2012	Botolphs Bridge, second winter, 14th February.
	Walland Marsh, same second winter, 16th February.

Great Bustard

Little Bustard

Corn Crake

Crex crex

Formerly bred, now rare passage migrant

With many records prior to 1952, this species would not normally be included in this list. However, as a species which causes great interest amongst birders, and with the exception of several early or late records, those records since 1952 are included here.

pre 1881	Rainham, bird shot in turnip field.
1881	Addisham, bird killed, November 30th.
1892	Maidstone, male shot, 30th December.
1906	Ashford, sample taken alive, 12th March.
1935	Sheppey, juvenile female, taken, 28th November.
1948	Deal, male, shot, 18th December.
1949	Lydd, shot, 23rd November.
1952	Dungeness, single bird, 1st September.
	Dungeness, single bird, 4th September.
	Warden Point, Sheppey, single bird, 7th September.
	Shellness, Stour, single bird, 18th October.
1953	Allhallows, one killed, 26th April.
	Dover, male trapped, June 18th.
	Lower Halstow, single, 2nd-4th August.
	Chilham, single, August, no date given.
	Kingsnorth, nr. Ashford, one found dead, 5th October.
1954	Hacklinge, single bird, 3rd August.
	St. Mary’s Bay, juvenile found dead, 18th September.
	Dungeness, single bird, 2nd September.
	Dungeness, single bird, 18th September.
1955	Borstal, nr. Rochester, single bird, 1st May.
	Chilham, single bird, 26th August.
	Dungeness, single bird, 12th August to 4th September.
1956	Sheerness, one killed, 23rd April.
	Dungeness, single bird, 9th-22nd September.
	New Romney, 1st winter found dead, 23rd September.
1957	Reculver, two birds in corn, 5th May.
	St. Margaret’s-at-Cliffe, single bird, 6th September.
	Gillingham, single bird, 9th-10th October.
1959	Gillingham, single bird, 20th and 22nd May.
	Doddington, single bird, autumn, date not known.
	St. Margaret’s-at-Cliffe, max. two birds, 27th September.
	Westbere, single bird, autumn, date not known.
	Nonington, single bird, autumn, date not known.
	Sandling Park, single bird, autumn, date not known.
	Dungeness, single bird, autumn, date not known.
	Allhallows, single bird on shore, 5th October.
	Shellness, Sheppey, single bird on shore, 6th October.
1960	Murston, single bird, 25th-30th August.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 26th August.
1961	Harty, Sheppey, heard calling, 13th-14th May.
	Shadoxhurst, single bird, 5th July.
	Ditton, one found with broken wing, later died, 23rd May.
	Chillenden, one found dead, 29th August.
1963	Paddock Wood, single bird, 27th August.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 21st September.
1964	Alkham, single bird, 5th August.
	Sandwich Bay, single birds, 17th, 22nd, 23rd, and 26th August.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 4th October.
	Dungeness, single birds, 5th and 6th September.
	Dungeness, three birds found dead during September.
1965	Hollingbourne, single bird, 20th April.
	The Wicks, Dungeness, single bird, 9th September.
1966	Minnis Bay, single bird, 3rd September.
	Dungeness, single bird, 15th September.
	Dungeness, single bird, 7th October.
	St. Margaret’s Bay, single bird, 21st September.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 12th October.
1967	Dungeness, single bird, 26th August.
1968	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 15th September.
1969	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 13th September.
1970	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 15th April.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 13th September.
	Dungeness, one found dead by pylons, 18th September.
1971	Lydd, single bird, 19th April.
1974	Dungeness, single bird, 17th September.
1976	Swanscombe S.F., single bird, 12th September.
	Pegwell Bay, single bird, 14th September.
	Foreness Point, single bird, 7th November.
1977	Stodmarsh, single bird, 13th May.
	Bewl Bridge, one heard calling, 29th August.
1979	Under River, Sevenoaks, one present, 12th-15th July.
1984	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 23rd May.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 16th September.
	Seaton, one heard calling, 9th June.
1985	Foreness, single bird, 11th August.
	Cliffe, single bird, 31st August.
1986	Broadstairs, one walked into a classroom, 9th September.
1988	Minster, Thanet, single bird, 17th April.
	St. Margaret’s, single bird, 22nd September.
1989	Headcorn, single bird, 10th September.
	Boughton Park, single bird, 17th September.
	St. Margaret’s, single bird, 5th October.
1990	High Halstow, one found dead, 16th September.
	Sandwich Bay, one flushed, 21st September.
1993	Langdon, one flushed, 28th August.
	Pegwell Bay, one flushed, 28th September.
1994	Unnamed site, up to two birds heard calling, 6th June to 14th July.
1996	Abbotscliffe, single bird, 10th September.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 14th-15th September.
1997	Sandwich Bay, one flushed from riverbank, 5th September.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 24th September.
2000	Bockhill, single bird, 4th September.
	Hope Point, Kingsdown, single bird, 26th September.
2002	Cranbrook, a single bird caught by a dog and released on 19th August, was caught again by the same dog on 22nd. Again, released, unharmed, this time on Walland Marsh.
2003	Cliffe Pools, single bird, 31st August, and presumably the same bird again on 11th September.
	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 2nd September.
2008	Abbotscliffe, single bird, 13th September.
2013	Dungeness RSPB, single bird flushed from access track, 5th October.
2014	Palm Bay, single bird, seen and photographed, 3rd October.
2018	Stonar Lake, single bird heard calling, 25th May.

Little Crake

Baillon’s Crake

Spotted Crake

Porzana porzana

Rare passage migrant and winter visitor. An occasional summer visitor.

With many records prior to 1977, this species would not normally be included in this list. However, as a species which causes great interest amongst birders, those records since 1977 are included here.

1977	Worth, single bird, 4th February.
	Stodmarsh, heard, 21st-22nd April.
1978	Murston, single bird, 18th February.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 10th December.
1980	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 4th April.
1982	Stodmarsh, single bird, 7th January.
	Stodmarsh, another bird, 28th-29th March.
	Cottington, Deal, single bird, 30th September.
	Folkestone Warren, single bird, 14th November to 6th December.
1983	Stour Valley, at two localities, up to three males were seen and heard, 27th-30th April.
	Stour Valley, again single birds on 4th, 7th, and 8th May.
	Unnamed site, 3-4 males, present 20th May to mid-August; 2 were known to be paired, and one was seen with two partially downy young on 17th July.
	Pegwell Bay, single bird, 16th December.
1987	Newington Cress Beds, one present, 30th September to 1st October.
1988	Kingsgate, single bird, 10th August.
	Broomfield, single bird, 22nd October.
	Dungeness, single bird, 15th October.
1989	Broomfield, single bird present, 17th-20th August.
1990	Middle Stour, single bird, 2nd February.
1992	Denton, Gravesend, single bird, 29th April to 4th May.
1994	Stodmarsh, single bird trapped, 30th August, had probably been present for at least a week beforehand.
1995	Sandwich Bay, juvenile present, 18th August until at least 15th September.
	Elmley, single bird, 23rd August.
1996	Sandwich Bay, single bird trapped, 6th September.
	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 25th-29th October.
1998	Stodmarsh, single bird heard, 9th-11th May.
1999	Seaton, single bird, 30th July.
	Grove ferry, three birds, 7th-19th August.
	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 14th September.
2000	Stodmarsh, one heard, 5th-6th July.
	Grove Ferry, single bird, 30th July into August.
	Grove Ferry, singles recorded on nine dates in August, with two on 27th and 29th, and at least four on 31st.
	Grove Ferry, up to six present during September.
	Grove Ferry, single birds on 8th and 24th October.
2001	Grove Ferry, birds recorded daily between 27th August and 16th September, with juveniles reported on 27th August, two on 30th, and one on 8th September. Probably at total of six birds involved.
2002	Oare, one heard calling, 20th April.
	Grove Ferry, adult, 13th-14th July.
	Grove Ferry, in August a single bird on 3rd August, with four present on 4th, and singles on 5th and 6th. Further singles on 18th-21st, two on 23rd, and four on 24th.
	Grove Ferry, into September, and there sighting of one to three birds on most days, until the final two were seen on 12th. Probably a minimum of eight birds present.
2003	Grove Ferry, singles recorded 10th-18th July, and 10th-31st August, with two on 24th. A single bird occurred on 12th September. It is probable that four individual birds were involved.
2004	Oare, juvenile, 7th August.
	Grove Ferry, at least four individuals, 4th-19th September.
	Grove Ferry, another present, 2nd-6th October.
2005	Grove Ferry, single bird seen, 12th April.
	Grove Ferry, as many as six individual birds, 7th July to 18th September.
	Dungeness RSPB, single bird present, 20th August to 2nd September.
2006	Grove Ferry, at least two birds seen, adult and juvenile, between 12th August and 14th September.
2007	Grove Ferry, single bird seen, 2nd April.
	Grove Ferry, another heard, 29th April until 1st May.
	Grove Ferry, at least one juvenile present, 8th-12th September.
2008	Alder Wood, Stodmarsh, single bird, 30th March.
	Grove Ferry, single bird, 14th June.
	Oare Marshes, single bird, 16th August to 20th September.
2009	Grove Ferry, single bird seen, 20th-26th August, with two on 22nd.
	Dungeness, ARC pits, single bird, 6th-16th September.
2010	Grove Ferry, single bird, 10th-22nd August, with two on 18th.
2013	Grove Ferry, single bird seen, 24th August to 6th September, with a second bird from 28th-31st August.
	Cliffe Pools, single bird, 8th-9th September.
	Oare Marshes, single bird from 9th September to 12th October, with a second briefly on 1st October.
2014	Westbere Marshes, single singing bird, 15th April.
	Grove Ferry, single singing bird, 18th-27th April.
	Grove Ferry, two singing birds, 4th-5th May.
2015	Grove Ferry, single bird singing, 27th-30th May.
2016	Cliffe Pools, single bird seen and heard, 14th-21st August.
2017	Stodmarsh NNR, single bird, 27th August.
2018	Grove Ferry, single singing bird, 19th August until 9th September.
	Grove Ferry, possibly same bird as earlier in month, 22nd-23rd September.
	Oare Marshes, single bird, 15th September until 19th October.

American Coot

Stone-curlew

STONE-CURLEW

Burhinus oedicnemus

Bred regularly until 1965, now rare migrant

Once a common breeder, by the end of the nineteenth century it was reduced to five pairs or fewer. By the turn of the century parties of 40 in 1902 and 71 in 1905 at Dungeness were no longer exceptional. Again began a slow decline, until the last recorded breeding, at Dungeness in 1965.

With many records prior to 1952, this species would not normally be included in this list. However, as a species which causes great interest amongst birders records since 1952 are included here.

1952	Dungeness RSPB, 5 pairs, with a further 2 pairs off the reserve; some bred successfully.
1953	Dungeness RSPB, six pairs bred with possibly another. Two further pairs also bred just outside the reserve.
	Farthingloe, single bird flushed, 18th May.
	Slayhills Saltings, Medway, single bird seen in flight, 19th August.
1954	Dungeness, 8 breeding pairs included 6 pairs on RSPB reserve.
	Stour Valley, Wye, single bird heard, 25th April.
	Tonbridge, 3 birds seen to land in field at 21.30hrs, before flying North.
1955	Dungeness RSPB, had 6 pairs of which 2 pairs bred successfully.
	Thanet, one heard calling on night of 13th April.
	Manston, immature found dead in road, 10th October.
1956	Dungeness, 7 pairs in breeding season, 1st April to 13th November.
1957	Dungeness, 7 pairs in breeding season, with 2 successful. One of ringed young shot in Spain in October.
	Yantlet, nr. Allhallows, single bird, 19th May.
1958	Dungeness RSPB, 5 pairs bred, with 2 broods found. 102 pairs bred off the reserve.
1959	Dungeness, recorded between 29th March and 10th October. No breeding records available.
	Cliffe, single bird, 14th April.
	St. Mary’s Hoo, single bird, 24th May.
	Hoo, single bird, 29th August.
1960	Dungeness area, recorded between 13th March and 11th October. 8 pairs probably bred, with at least 6 young from 3 nests located.
1961	Dungeness area, recorded between 6th April and 6th November. 5 pairs present, but none known to have bred.
1962	Luddenham marshes, single bird, 10th June.
1963	Dungeness area, recorded between 30th March and 17th October, with possibly 6 pairs breeding.
	Sevenoaks, single bird on 31st July.
1964	Dungeness area, recorded between 26th March and 28th September, with 6 pairs breeding, all raising young.
1965	Dungeness, the first bird was seen on 31st March, with only 1 pair breeding unsuccessfully.
	Egypt Bay, single bird, 20th August.
1966	Cliffe, single bird, 8th April.
	Dungeness, single bird, 8th April.
	Dungeness, 3 calling birds19th May until late May. No evidence of breeding.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 22nd July.
	St. Margaret’s, single bird, 21st August.
1967	Dungeness RSPB, 1-2 birds, 3rd April to 27th September.
1968	Dungeness RSPB, 2 females, laid infertile eggs in same nest.
	Brooks-Wicks, single bird summered.
1969	Dungeness, single birds on 11th May and 2nd September.
	Dungeness RSPB, single bird seen occasionally during July.
1970	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 15th April.
1971	Dungeness area, up to 2 birds calling, 17th April to 19th May. No evidence of breeding.
	Halling, single bird calling at night, 18th May.
1972	Dungeness, single bird, 25th June.
	Kingsnorth, single bird, 18th August.
1973	Cottington, single bird, 27th March.
	Allhallows, single bird, 16th and 23rd September.
1975	Cliffe Pools, single bird, 31st August.
1978	Elmley, single bird, on the late date of 27th November.
1979	Dungeness RSPB, singles on 16th and 28th April.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 22nd September.
1980	Dungeness area, singles on 16th April, 29th June, and 1st July.
1981	St. Margaret’s, single bird, 12th May.
1984	Reculver, single bird, 14th April.
	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 16th September.
1987	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 28th March.
	Stoke Ooze, single bird, 16th-20th September.
1988	Hawden Gravel Pits, single bird, 14th July.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 17th August.
1990	Cliffe Marshes, single bird, 3rd June.
1991	Capel Fleet, single bird, 5th May.
1995	Cliffe Pools, single bird, 23rd July.
	Dungeness, single bird flushed from roadside, 28th August.
1996	Dungeness, single bird, 9th April.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 2nd June.
1997	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 31st July to 7th August.
1998	Langdon Cliffs, single bird, 6th October.
1999	Rye Street, single bird, 9th April.
	Dungeness, single birds on 26th May and 17th August.
2000	Funton, single bird, 19th March.
	Bockhill, single bird, 25th March.
	Dartford Marshes, single bird, 14th April.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 29th April.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 26th August.
2001	Shellness, single bird, 11th September.
2002	St. Margaret’s, singles on 29th July and 1st August.
2004	Cliffe, single bird, 15th April.
	Dartford Marshes, single bird, 2nd May.
2006	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 20th March.
	Northward Hill, two birds, 21st April.
2007	Whetsted GP’s, single bird, 25th March.
	Shellness, single bird, 20th June.
2008	Lade, single bird, 15th March.
	Dungeness, single bird, 13th May.
2009	Dungeness, single bird, 3rd April.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 19th July.
	Grove Ferry, single bird, 28th July.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 23rd August.
	Dengemarsh, single bird, 16th-19th October.
2010	Dungeness, single bird, 16th October.
	Dartford Marshes, single bird, 6th November.
2012	Dungeness, single bird in “desert”, 8th May.
2014	Reculver, single bird seen and photographed, 19th July.
2015	Pegwell Bay, single bird, 9th May.
	Dartford Marshes, single bird heard, 13th May.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 17th May.
2016	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 18th August.
	Murston, single bird, 30th November.
2017	Reculver, single bird, 2nd May.
	Dungeness BO, single bird, 3rd May.
	Reculver, another bird, 23rd May.
	Pegwell Bay, another bird, 6th July.
	Pegwell Bay, juvenile, 17th August until 6th October.
2018	Sandwich, single bird sound recorded at 04:30am, 16th April.
	Sandwich, single bird heard, 1st and 2nd July.
2019	Hinxhill, nr. Ashford, single bird, 14th April.

Black-Winged Stilt

BLACK-WINGED STILT

Himantopus himantopus

Rare Vagrant

pre-1845	Near Faversham, shot, no date.
1919	Romney Marsh, adult, 16th May.
1942	Romney Marsh, May.
1945	Cooling Marshes, two, 9th May.
	Stodmarsh, two, 12th May.
1953	Shellness, Sheppey, immature, 15th September.
1955	Lower Halstow Creek, adult, 26th September.
1957	Shellness, Sheppey, two, 29th September.
1965	Hythe, Palmarsh, 23rd May.
1967	Stoke Lagoon, 29th May.
1978	Dungeness, 10th, 16th-17th and 24th June, and 6th July; same as West Sussex.
1980	Capel Fleet, male, 21st June to 20th August, same bird as Essex individual.
1981	Elmley, 10th-11th May.
1982	Yantlet, 18th September.
1987	Cliffe Pools, 30th-31st May.
1990	Cliffe Pools, 18th May.
1993	Dungeness, 8th June, later in Suffolk.
1994	Dungeness, 11th July.
1995	Dungeness, 2nd May.
	Eastborough Farm, two, 9th May.
	Cliffe Pools, 10th-13th may; presumed same, 25th May (same as Eastbourne Farm; also in Essex.
1997	West Hythe, first-winter, 7th September; presumed same as Essex bird.
1998	Northward Hill, 9th-10th May.
	Elmley, male, female and female or first-summer, 26th May.
	Oare Marshes, male, female of same (see Elmley), 28th May, returning to Elmley intermittently to 31st.
1999	Northward Hill, two, 21st May.
	Swale, 21st-25th May.
2001	Dungeness, 9th-10th May.
2005	Dungeness, 4th May.
	Another, Dungeness, 22nd-23rd June.
2006	Elmley, 3rd-4th May.
2008	Elmley & Oare Marshes, male and female, 3rd-4th May.
	Dungeness, adult, 28th-29th May.
2010	Harty Marshes, Sheppey, male, 7th April.
2012	Elmley RSPB, four birds, 5th-6th May, with two remaining until 11th.
2014	Dungeness RSPB, a flock of 10 birds arrived on the 10th April, but only one was present on 25th, two on 36th-27th, with one lingering on from 28th until24th May.
	Sandwich Bay, adult male, 2nd May.
	Scotney GP, male and female, 14th May.
	Cliffe Pools, four birds, 15th May. Two remained and it was confirmed on 22nd May that they had a nest and eggs. The first confirmed breeding in Kent. The first chick was seen on 13th June, with four eventually hatching. Unfortunately all were predated, and the adults soon moved on, the last being seen on 17th June.
	Elmley NNR, two adults, 16th May.
2015	Higham Marshes, two to eight second-year birds, 14^th-19th April.
	Northward Hill RSPB, two birds, 16th April.
	Dungeness RSPB, two birds, 17th April.
	Northward Hill RSPB, four birds, 16th April.
	Cliffe Pools RSPB, two birds, presumed same as Northward Hill, increasing to four, 16thApril to 18th June.
	Sevenoaks WR, two birds, 30th May.
2016	For the third year in succession, birds made breeding attempts at Cliffe Pools RSPB Reserve and Higham Marshes RSPB Reserve, and accounted for all reports this year. The first record was of a female on 13th April, which was followed by the arrival of a pair on the 17th, and a fourth bird the next day. Although two birds soon departed, a remaining pair was joined by another four birds on the 22nd, which included a male and three females. Photographs revealed that the two males were returning birds from 2015. Subsequently three pairs made breeding attempts. On 10th May, seven birds were present, the three breeding pairs and an unpaired, probably immature female. Of the three nests at Cliffe, two were in a protected area but one failed due to the removal of eggs from the nest by a male Stilt. The third nest was outside the protected area and failed due to egg predation, probably by a Red Fox. The two eggs from the remaining nest successfully hatched but the two chicks died during separate periods of torrential rain. Remarkably, one of the earlier failed pairs re-nested nearby at Higham Marshes RSPB Reserve, but the eggs were predated by a group of Carrion Crows just 2-3 days before the eggs were expected to hatch. The last record was of two birds at Higham on 17th July.
2017	For the fourth year in succession birds made breeding attempts in Kent, this year successfully. The first record was of an adult male at Cliffe Pools RSPB Reserve on 31st March, the earliest recorded date for the county and first March record. A pair was present the next day which was joined by a further adult male from 6th April. After several local movements of these birds including a pair moving briefly to Vange Marshes RSPB Reserve in Essex, where a nesting pair was present which failed at the egg stage on 7th May; two pairs settled back at Cliffe from 9th, including the failed Essex pair. Nesting of both pairs commenced from 17th-18th May and eventually four young hatched from each nest during 11th-13th June. One of the adult males disappeared in the last week of June but the female successfully fledged all four young. The other pair lost one chick but successfully fledged the remaining three young. Thus, two pairs bred successfully and fledged a total of seven young. Ten birds remained at Cliffe until 1st August at least, after which a gradual dispersal took place with the pair and three juveniles departing to leave the female and four juveniles. The female was last seen on 10th August leaving the four juveniles of which two remained until 25th August, the last date that this species was observed in the county. Away from Cliffe there were two at Elmley on 10th and 29th April, three at Northward Hill RSPB on 14th May, two at The Midrips on 2nd June and three at Riverside Country Park on 23rd August. It is likely that the Elmley and Northward Hill records involved the Cliffe birds, wandering before settling to breed, whilst the birds at Riverside Country Park were three juveniles dispersing from Cliffe.
2018	Stodmarsh/Grove Ferry, single bird, 12th-14th April.
	Cliffe Pools, single bird, 29th April and 26th May.
	Oare Marshes, single bird, 4th June.
	Sandwich Bay, four birds, 17th-18th June.
	Sheppey, two adults and two juveniles, successfully bred, May to June.
	Oare Marshes, two adults and two juveniles, presumably those from Sheppey, 5th-19th May.
2019	Dungeness RSPB, two birds, 20th-24th April.
No Longer Accepted
1913	Romney Marsh, immature female, 15th September; immature male 20th.

Sociable Plover

White-tailed Plover

Pacific Golden Plover

American Golden Plover

Greater Sand Plover

Broad-billed Sandpiper

Sharp-tailed Sandpiper

Stilt Sandpiper

Baird’s Sandpiper

Least Sandpiper

White-rumped Sandpiper

Buff-breasted Sandpiper

Semi-palmated Sandpiper

Long-billed Dowitcher

Great Snipe

Terek Sandpiper

Wilson’s Phalarope

Red-necked Phalarope

RED-NECKED PHALAROPE

Phalaropus lobatus

Rare Spring and Autumn Migrant

Prior to 1844	Romney Marsh, shot, no date given.
1861	Dover, no date given.
1867	Elmley, immature, shot, November.
ca.1871	Isle of Grain, immature, shot, 26th September. Thought to be from this year. Now in British Museum (Natural History).
	Rainham fleets, immature female, shot, 28th September.
1905	Oppen Pits, Dungeness, adult pair, shot, May.
1906	Oppen Pits, Dungeness, adult male, shot, 1st May.
1908	Cheyne Court Farm, Walland Marsh, single bird, 8th June.
1915	Sturry, shot, 10th November.
1936	Hoo, single bird, 1st November.
1939	Sheppey, single bird, 30th August.
1952	Dungeness, single bird, 26th October.
1957	The Brooks, Dungeness, single bird, 4th October.
1959	Minnis Bay, juvenile, 30th August.
1962	Grove, two birds, 26th June.
1963	Walland Marsh, single bird, 30th August.
1964	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 9th-10th and 15th August.
1965	The Wicks, Dungeness, single bird, 28th August.
1966	Sandwich Bay, single bird, on 21st August.
1967	Cliffe Pools, single bird, on 28th August.
1968	Windmill Creek, single bird, 3rd August.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 28th-29th September.
1975	Sandwich Bay, summer plumage female, 26th-30th May.
1976	Pegwell Bay, single bird, 6th and 8th November.
1977	Bough Beech, single bird, photographed, 19th-20th August.
1979	Cliffe Pools, single bird, 19th August.
1980	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 9th August.
1981	Elmley, single birds on 28th June to 3rd July, 10th August, and 30th August to 12th September.
	Dungeness Pits, single birds on 17th August and 5th September.
	Dover, injured bird, 11th October.
1982	Dungeness, single bird, 3rd May.
	Elmley, single bird, 5th-11th September.
	Dungeness Pits, single bird, 5th-6th October.
1983	Cliffe Pools, juvenile, 22nd-30th August.
1984	Elmley, 1-3 birds from 1st-9th August, with maximum of 4 birds on 3rd.
	Stoke Lagoon, single bird, 18th-19th August.
1985	Elmley, single birds on 21st-26th June, 28th September to 7th October, with two birds on 8th October.
1986	Yantlet Creek, single bird, 30th May.
1987	Elmley, single bird, 18th-26th September.
1988	Cliffe Pools, single bird, 22nd June.
	Bough Beech, single bird, 30th August.
1989	Cliffe Pools, single bird, 7th-8th June.
	Nr. New Romney, single bird, 31st August to 13th September.
	Dungeness Reserve, single bird, 21st-24th September.
1990	Elmley, single bird, 14th June.
1991	Oare, single bird, 3rd-5th June.
	Cliffe Pools, juvenile, 15th August.
1992	Cliffe Pools, transitional adult, 19th-26th August.
	Stodmarsh, transitional adult, 21st-25th August.
	Bough Beech, juvenile, 27th August.
	Stodmarsh, juvenile, 4th-5th September.
	Cliffe Pools, juvenile, 9th and 11th September.
1993	ARC Pits, Dungeness, first-year bird, 3rd-20th October.
1994	Swale NNR, single bird, 16th August.
	Elmley, single bird, 25th August to 2nd September.
1995	Cliffe Pools, juvenile, 7th-16th September.
1996	Pegwell Bay, single bird, 14th September.
	Fairfields, Upstreet, juvenile, 21st-28th September.
1997	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 18th-22nd September, with another, 30th September to 3rd October.
1998	Swale NNR, moulting male, 4th May.
	Cliffe Pools, female, 17th-23rd July.
1999	Grove Ferry, juvenile, 11th-15th August.
	Cliffe Quarries, juvenile, 22nd-23rd August.
	Elmley Reserve, juvenile, 25th August to 2nd September.
	Oare Marshes, juvenile, 27th August, presumed Elmley bird
	Swale NNR, juvenile, 28th August to 1st September, presumed Elmley bird.
	Elmley Reserve, juvenile, 14th-26th September.
	Hoo Peninsula, juvenile, 15th-20th September.
	Dungeness Reserve, two juveniles, 30th September.
2000	Elmley NNR and RSPB, female, 2nd-20th July.
	Oare, two juveniles, 20th-22nd September.
2001	Cliffe Pools, moulted adult, 15th-20th August.
	Oare, 9th September.
	Reculver, 11th-16th September.
	Lade, 20th-24th September.
2002	Oare, juvenile, 9th September.
2003	New Downs Pool, Sandwich Bay, 14th September.
2004	Swale NNR, male, 23rd May
	Oare Marshes, male, 23rd-27th May to 4th August, presumed same bird as at Swale
2005	Oare, female, 16th-18th May.
	Elmley, adult, 23rd July to 4th August.
2006	Oare, 3rd August.
2007	Chetney, adult female, 12th-17th August.
2008	Northward Hill RSPB, juvenile, 26th September.
	Dungeness, juvenile, offshore, 7th October.
2009	Dungeness, ARC pits, adult, 19th July.
2010	Elmley, single bird, 12th May.
2014	Cliffe Pools, moulting adult, 26th August.
	Dungeness RSPB, first winter bird, 27th-30th August.
	Oare Marshes, single bird, 5th September.
	Cliffe Pools, single bird, 11th September.
2015	Leysdown, single bird, 30th May.
2016	Cliffe Pools, single bird, 29th May.
	Lade/ARC Pits, juvenile bird, 2nd-3rd September, and at Dungeness RSPB from 3rd-4th September.
2017	Oare Marshes, juvenile, 30th August until 1st September.
	Scotney Court GP, first-winter, 13th September
	Garage Pool, Pegwell Bay, first-winter, 13th-17th September
2018	Oare Marshes, moulting adult, 28th July to 8th August.

Spotted Sandpiper

Lesser Yellowlegs

Marsh Sandpiper

Greater Yellowlegs

Cream-coloured Courser

Collared Pratincole

Oriental Pratincole

Black-winged Pratincole

Ivory Gull

Slender-billed Gull

Bonaparte’s Gull

Ross’s Gull

Laughing Gull

Audouin’s Gull

Ring-billed Gull

Iceland Gull

Caspian Gull

CASPIAN GULL

Larus cachinnans

Scarce, but increasingly regular, vagrant

1999	Dungeness Observatory, adult, 15th-28th August.
2000	Dungeness Observatory, adult, 21st January.
	Dungeness Observatory, another adult, 29th-30th January.
	Dungeness Observatory, first-winter, 25th February.
	Dungeness Observatory, another first-winter, 27th February.
	Dungeness Observatory, first-winter, 21st December.
2001	Dungeness area, a total of twelve birds recorded.
2002	Dungeness area, a total of nine birds recorded.
2003	Dungeness area, a total of eighteen birds recorded.
2004	Dungeness area, a total of eight birds recorded.
2005	Dungeness area, a total of nineteen birds recorded in November.
	Dungeness area, a total of thirty-seven birds recorded in December, with peaks of six birds on RSPB reserve on both 2nd and 16th December.
	Scotney, two birds, 4th December.
2006	Dungeness area, a peak of five first-winters, 11th January.
	Dungeness Observatory, bird bearing a Polish colour ring, first ringed at Wloclawek on 18th May 2004, was present on 3rd February.
	Dungeness Reserve, adult, 21st March.
	ARC Pits, first-winter, 13th April.
	Dungeness area, returning birds of various ages were recorded from 17th August.
	ARC Pits, a peak of three first-winters, 26th November.
	Dungeness Observatory, three second-winters, 11th December.
	ARC Pits, first-winter, 13th April.
	Littlebrook, five birds of varying ages, seen during December.
2007	Dungeness Observatory, a second-winter on 14th January, a third- winter on 23rd January, a first-winter on 6th March, and a first-winter on 2nd April were the only birds in the first half of the year.
	Dungeness Observatory, a juvenile/first-winter on 9th September, a juvenile/first-winter on 10th September, two first-winters on 30th September, a first-winter on 20th October, a first-winter on 22nd October, a first-winter on 6th November, a first- and a second-winter on 18th November, a first-winter on 28th November, a first-winter on 13th December, a fourth-winter on each of 18th and 19th December, and a third-winter on 19th December completed the year.
	Dungeness Reserve, a total 65 reports occurred of birds of various ages between 31st January and 20th December. Refer to KOS Bird Report for full details.
	North Quarry, Cliffe, an adult bird present, 1st December.
2008	Dungeness RSPB, adult, 6th January.
	Dungeness RSPB, first-winter, 13th January.
	Dungeness Observatory, two birds, a first-winter and a fourth-winter, 14th February.
	Dungeness RSPB, third-winter, 14th February.
	Dungeness RSPB, first-winter, 16th February.
	Dungeness RSPB, three birds, 21st February.
	Dungeness RSPB, third-winter, 3rd March.
	Dungeness RSPB, second-winter, 7th March.
	Dungeness RSPB, three birds, 8th March.
	Dungeness Observatory, four first-winter birds, 9th March.
	Pegwell Bay, first-winter, 14th March.
	Dungeness RSPB, first-winter, 19th March.
	Dungeness Observatory, third-winter bird, 28th March.
	Dungeness Observatory, two first-winter birds, 30th March.
	Dungeness Observatory, first-winter, 4th April.
	Dungeness Observatory, first-winter, 19th May.
	Dungeness Observatory, first-winter, 30th September.
	Dungeness Observatory, adult and first-winter, 16th October.
	Thames, Dartford, adult, 7th November.
	Pegwell Bay, three first-winters, 19th November to 14th December.
	Dungeness Observatory, first-winter, 20th November.
	Dungeness Observatory, adult, 21st November.
	Dungeness Observatory, third-winter, 22nd November.
	Otford, third-winter, 22nd November.
	Dungeness RSPB, three adults, 23rd November.
	Dungeness RSPB, two adults, 26th November.
	Dungeness RSPB, adult, 27th November.
	Dungeness RSPB, adult, 5th December.
	Dungeness RSPB, adult, 14th December.
	Dungeness RSPB, adult, 20th December.
	Dungeness Observatory, adult, 20th December.
	Pegwell Bay, three adults, 28th-29th December.
2009	Dungeness Observatory, third winter, 1st January.
	Dungeness Observatory, adult, 3rd January.
	Dungeness RSPB, third winter, 13th January.
	Dungeness RSPB, another third winter, 15th January.
	Dungeness RSPB, adult, 16th January.
	Dungeness RSPB, adult and two second winters, 18th January.
	Dungeness Observatory, second winter, 20th January.
	Dungeness Observatory, a different second winter, 22nd January.
	Dungeness Observatory, another second winter, 26th January.
	Dungeness Observatory, two adults, 27th January.
	Dungeness RSPB, adult, 31st January.
	Dungeness Observatory, third winter, 1st February.
	Dungeness Observatory, adult, 2nd February.
	Dungeness Observatory, first winter, 3rd February.
	Dungeness RSPB, adult and third or fourth winter, 3rd February.
	Dungeness Observatory, adult, 9th-10th February.
	Dartford Marshes, third winter, photographed 15th February. The only record away from the Dungeness area this year.
	Dungeness Observatory, first winter, 17th February.
	Dungeness Observatory, fourth winter, 24th February.
	Dungeness Observatory, adult, 26th February.
	Dungeness RSPB, first winter, 26th February.
	Dungeness RSPB, another first winter, 28th February.
	Dungeness RSPB, second winter, 4th March.
	Dungeness RSPB, first winter, 6th March.
	Dungeness RSPB, first and second winter birds, 7th March.
	Dungeness Observatory, first winter, 9th March.
	Dungeness RSPB, second winter, 12th March.
	Dungeness RSPB, first winter, 14th March.
	Dungeness RSPB, first winter, 17th March.
	Dungeness RSPB, first and third winter birds, 20th March.
	Dungeness RSPB, three first winter birds and an adult, 21st March.
	Dungeness RSPB, third winter, 3rd April.
	Dungeness RSPB, juvenile, 12th September.
	Dungeness Observatory, second winter, 4th October.
	Dungeness Observatory, first winter, 11th October.
	Dungeness RSPB, first winter, 11th October.
	Dungeness Observatory, another first winter, 17th October.
	Dungeness Observatory, second winter, 23rd October.
	Dungeness RSPB, second winter, 23rd October.
	Dungeness RSPB, second winter and adult, 27th October.
	Dungeness RSPB, fourth winter, 29th October.
	Dungeness RSPB, second winter, 1st November.
	Dungeness RSPB, first and third winter birds, 6th November.
	Dungeness RSPB, adult, 10th November.
	Dungeness RSPB, another adult, 11th-12th November.
	Dungeness RSPB, second winter, 12th November.
	Dungeness RSPB, second winter, 14th November.
	Dungeness RSPB, adult, 22nd November.
	Dungeness RSPB, adult, 29th November.
	Dungeness RSPB, adult, 2nd December.
	Dungeness RSPB, another adult, 3rd December.
	Dungeness RSPB, first winter, 17th December.
	Dungeness RSPB, third winter, 23rd December.
	Dungeness Observatory, fourth winter, 23rd December.
2010	The main concentration of records was from the Dungeness area with up to 17 birds recorded at Dungeness BO and a further 18 recorded from the nearby RSPB Reserve during the year. In January, there was a 3rd winter bird on the Reserve on the 13th, an adult there on the 14th and an adult in the observatory recording area on the 23rd. In February, a 3rd winter was on the Reserve on the 2nd, a 1st winter and a 3rd winter were in the observatory recording area on the 4th, a 3rd winter was on the Reserve on the 5th and a 1st winter was seen there on the 8th with another 1st winter nearby in the observatory recording area on that date. A 2ndwinter bird was on Reserve on the 16th and a 3rd winter there on the 22nd. In March, the Reserve had a 3rd winter on the 22nd and a 1st winter on the 28th. The following birds were then seen in the observatory recording area during the summer: a 2nd summer on May 2nd, a 1st summer on May 29th and another on May 31st, single juveniles recorded on July 14th and Aug 17th and an adult on Aug 25th. September records were all from the observatory recording area once again with a 2nd winter on the 15th, a 1st winter and a 2nd winter on the 16th, a 3rd winter on the 18th and single adults on the 27th and the 31st. October and November records were all from the Reserve with an adult on Oct 19th, another adult on Oct 23rd, a 1st winter on Nov 28th and an adult on Nov 29th. In December, single adults were on the Reserve on the 5th and on the 22nd, an adult was in the observatory recording area on the 24th, with a first winter there on the 26th and a 3rd winter and two adults there on the 28th. Two adults were on the Reserve on Dec 30th and separate 2nd winters were recorded on the Reserve and in the observatory recording area on the 31st. Away from Dungeness, there was one at Swanscombe on Jan 1st an adult and a 1st winter were feeding at the Viridor recycling centre in Crayford, Greater London, on the 31st and were both seen to fly into Kent. In February, two first winters were on the Thames foreshore at Dartford on the 25th. In October, a 2nd winter was on the pools on Swanscombe peninsula on the 31st.
2011	Hythe, single bird, 14th December.
2012	Records were once again concentrated at Dungeness with six records from the Dungeness peninsula and 17 from the Dungeness RSPB Reserve. The popular 1st W that had arrived on Dec 8th 2011 lingered until Jan 27th. Also in January, a 2nd W was by the fishing boats on the 5th. Three birds were recorded on the Reserve in February with an adult and a 2nd W there on the 10th and another 2nd W there on the 16th. In March, there was an adult and a 1st W on the Reserve on the 5th, a 3rd W and a 2nd W also there on the 6th as was a 2nd W on the 8th. There was a 2nd W by the fishing boats on the 15th. On Apr 17th, there was a 1st W on the Reserve. During the second winter period, there was a 1st W on the Point on Sept 25th, an adult on them Reserve on Oct 16th-18th, and an adult on the Reserve on the 26th with it or another by the fishing boats also on that date and a 3rd W on the Point on Nov 20th. The final six birds in December were all on the Reserve with an adult there on the 4th-5th, a 1st W there on the 6th, an adult there on the 12th, two 2nd W birds there on the 16th and an adult there on the 17th. Away from Dungeness, there were five accepted records. A 1st W came to bread. Greenhithe on Mar 18th, a 1st S was on Dartford Marshes on Apr 1st with another there on the 9th, a 1st W on the Thames foreshore at Dartford Marshes on Nov 24th and an adult at Folkestone on Nov 27th with the latter bird being identified as the same bird that was present at Dartford from Feb 3rd-Mar 19th 2011.
2013	The first bird of the year was a 3rd winter at Kerton Rd, Dungeness, on Jan 6th. A 2nd winter was seen infrequently on Dartford Marshes from Jan 13th-Mar 29th and was also seen coming to bread on Mar 23rd at Greenhithe. A 1st winter was seen on Dartford Marshes on Jan 26th with a 3rd winter there on Jan 31st and again on Feb 22nd. In March, there was one at Dungeness RSPB Reserve on the 3rd, a 3rd winter at Dungeness BO on the 10th and a 1st winter there on the 18th. The last bird to be recorded in the first half of the year was a 3rd winter at Dungeness BO on Apr 6th-7th. In August, juveniles were seen from the fishing boats at Dungeness on the 18th and on the 31st and in September, a 2nd winter was seen there on the 15th and again on the 28th. In October, a 1st winter was at Dungeness BO on the 6th. In November, a 1st winter was at Dungeness BO on the 3rd, one was recorded nearby on the RSPB Reserve on the 17th and one was at Dungeness BO on the 30th. A 1st winter was seen in Dartford on Nov 30th and another 1st winter was also there on Dec 1st with both birds being seen on several occasions up to Dec 25th along with another 1st winter there on the 21st. All other December records were from Dungeness with an adult on the Reserve on the 7th, a 1st winter and a 2nd winter at the Observatory on the 8th with the 1st winter remaining until the end of the year. There was one on the Reserve on the 13th. An adult was at the Observatory on the 16th with another adult and a 1st winter there the next day and three new 1st winters there on the 19th. On the 22nd, there were two new 2nd winters at the Observatory with both remaining until the 23rd when they were joined by two more birds. On the 28th, there were a remarkable 11 individuals with 10 of these being seen between the fishing boats and the Lifeboat station (five 1st winters and five 2nd winters) and an adult on ARC and this count was the highest day total for this species in Great Britain to date. The last two of the year were also at the Observatory on the 31st.
2014	There were 100 individual birds recorded from the Dungeness BO recording area with two more recorded on the RSPB Reserve. The following records are from the recording area unless stated otherwise: In January there were 6 birds on the 1st, 4 on each of 7th and 8th, and 5 on the 27th. 1st winter birds were present on the 6th (3 No.), 12th, 14th, 16th, 18th, 21st (3 No.), 25th and 28th; single 2nd winter birds on the 2nd, 3rd, 5th-9th, 6th, and 12th, with two birds on the 4th; a 3rd winter on the 6th and 18th and an adult, also on the 18th. Then in February there were 1st winter birds on the 8th, 14th, 21st and 22nd; 2nd winters on the 22nd and 23rd; a 3rd winter on the 3rd, whilst there has been an adult on the 1st. Whilst in March there were two 1st winters on the 3rd followed by further singles on the 14th, 16th, 17th, 19th and 24th. In April, there were three 1st winter birds, on the 5th, 6th and another on the 9th. The first juveniles of the autumn were two on Aug 17th, with singles on Aug 24th and 25th. In September, there was one on the Reserve on the 6th, a 1st winter lingered around the fishing boats from 12th-14th and another there on 21st-22nd. Whilst in October, there were 1st winter birds on the 4th, 6th, 16th, 18th and 21st; a 2nd winter on the 5th, a 3rd winter birds on the 12th, alongside an Audouin’s Gull, and on the 19th. There was a 1st winter and 2nd winter on Nov 2nd along with two more birds on the Reserve and an adult on the Reserve on Nov 16th. During December, there were three 1st winters on the 10th, four on the 4th, another on the 12th, two on the 13th, one on the 14th, one on the Reserve on the 17th, two on the 21st and one on the 23rd, with another feeding offshore along with a 3rd winter by the fishing boats on the 28th. The following records were seen away from Dungeness: On Dartford Marshes, a 1st winter first seen in December 2013 continued to be seen intermittently until Mar 23rd. A returning colour-ringed adult that had been seen on Dartford Marshes in 2010 & 2012 was seen on Jan 23rd. Up to six birds, including two adults, were seen in Pegwell Bay during January and on Jan 26th a colour ringed 1st winter was seen on Dartford Marshes. A 1st winter was seen on the Thames off Dartford Marshes on Jan 26th. In February, there were three records from Dartford Marshes with a 1st winter on the 2nd and adults on the 5th and on the 11th. In March, there was a 1st winter on Dartford Marshes on the 30th. In the latter half of the year, a 1st winter was on the Thames foreshore, Dartford Marshes, on Oct 18th. Two 1st winters and two adults were in Pegwell Bay on Nov 29th-30th, one 1st winter and two adults lingering through December, and a 1st winter was in Folkestone Harbour on Dec 1st. A 3rd winter was on Dartford Marshes on Dec 14th. A 1st winter was at Ramsgate on Dec 19th. On Dartford Marshes, there was a 1st winter on Dec 21st, a 1st winter and a 2nd winter on the 29th with both those birds remaining there until the next day when they were joined by another 2nd winter.
2015	At Dungeness an estimated 78 individual birds were seen during the year, 29 during the first four months and 49 in the last four. In January there were nine 2nd year birds, in February two 2nd year, two 3rd and one 4th year, in March 10 2nd year and two 4th year and in April two 2nd year and one 3rd. In September there were one 1st year and one 2nd, in October eight 1st year and three 2nd, in November 14 1st year, two 2nd, two 3rd year and four adults, in December six 1st year, three 2nd , one 3rd year and four adults. On the Reserve there was a 1st winter on Jan 17th, one on Feb 14th and a 1st winter on Mar 28th. In the last months of the year there was a 2nd winter and two 1st winter on Oct 25th and an adult on the 29th, an adult and two 1st winter at Scotney on Nov 23rd while, in December, there were up to three birds on 13 days and also an adult at Lade on the 20th. Away from Dungeness there was a single at Pegwell Bay on Jan 1st-2nd, one at Harty on the 1st that lingered in the area until at least Mar 3rd, two adults and a 1st winter at Dartford Marshes on Jan 3rd and two at Pegwell Bay on the 15th (PM). In February there was a 1st winter at Dartford on the 7th and in March a 3rd year at Greenhithe on the 7th and 15th, a 1st winter at Cliftonville on the 16th and a 1st summer at Dartford Marsh on May 31st. In the latter part of the year there was a 1st winter at Reculver on Sept 21st, one at Pegwell Bay from Dec 2nd-9th and two at Dartford Marshes on the 3rd.
2016	In the first five months of the year birds were seen at Dungeness with the latest being reported on 31st May. The peak day count was of three birds on 29th January. At Sandwich Bay/Pegwell birds were also present on a variety of dates in January and February with a peak of three birds on 8th February. In the same months at Dartford Marshes there were birds present on many dates with a peak count of 14 on 10th January. At the same site 2 birds were recorded on 27th February and a first-winter bird on 20th March. Away from these strongholds records were submitted of two first-winter birds at Stodmarsh on 31st January, a first-winter bird at Herne Bay on 1st February, a first-winter bird at New Hythe GP on 23rd February. In the second five months of the year birds were seen at Dungeness during every month from 8th August rising to day peaks of six birds on 17th November and seven birds on 21st December. At Sandwich/Pegwell Bay records commenced with a second-winter bird at New Downs on 21st August, and November sightings peaked with six on the 11th. December records included a first-winter bird at Pegwell Bay on the 10th and peaked at 10 on 12th December. Away from the main sites a second-winter bird was recorded at Hythe Beach on 26th November, with a first-winter recorded at Folkestone Harbour on 19th December.
2017	At Dungeness, the stronghold for this species, birds mainly 1st and 2nd years were recorded at the Point from 21st January to 11th April with a peak of five on 30th January and a total of 88 bird/days. At the RSPB Reserve there were four individuals in January, seven in February and six in March. At Sandwich/Pegwell in January a first winter was seen on the 5th, an adult on the 16th and 26th. Possibly the same bird was present in February from the 1st-3rd. At least five singles were seen until Apr 20th. Away from the two main sites there was a first winter at Ramsgate Harbour on 1st January. At Dungeness Point in the last four months from 10th September until the year end there was a total of 49 bird/days. On the RSPB Reserve there were circa 73 individuals from 10th November until 31st December with eight on 22nd November and 10 on 6th December. At Pegwell in November there were several singles with a peak of four between the 20th and 23rd. Elsewhere in December there was an adult at Folkstone Harbour on the 2nd, at Lade a first winter on the 5th and an adult on the 18th and at Dartford another adult on the 28th.
2018	At Dungeness, estimated totals of 59 individuals occurred at the Point and 102 individuals on the RSPB Reserve during the year. Contrasting these totals with the table indicates how much turnover takes place, many birds remaining for only one or two days, though one first-winter bird was present at the Point from 14th December 2017 to 2nd February. Maximum day-counts at the Point were four on both 7th January and 23rd December while the Reserve peak was 17 on 11th November. About 75% of individuals at the Point were first or second calendar year birds. More detail on the monthly totals and a full breakdown of age classes can be found in the Dungeness Bird Observatory report. In the Dungeness hinterland, there were two at Lade Pits on 2nd December, an adult there on 5th December and also there were two at Scotney Court GP on 19th December. At Pegwell Bay, there were sightings on eleven days up to the last on 19th March. All were of singles apart from two on 10th January, but at least three age-classes were involved (second and third calendar year and adult). Elsewhere, there were a third-winter bird at Foreness on 3rd March, a first-winter bird also at Foreness on the 6th, and two adults at Bough Beech on 13th March. An unusual summer record involved a second calendar year bird seen in Pegwell Bay on four dates during 16th July and 7th August. There was also an early autumn sighting of a juvenile at Shorne Marshes on 21st August. At Pegwell Bay, regular presence began on 7th November, and a build-up of roosting birds in December peaked at seven on the 21st Elsewhere, one was at Deal on 3rd November, a first-winter bird at Ramsgate on 11th November, one inland at Sevenoaks WR during 2nd-3rd December and on 14th December, a first-winter bird at Dartford Marshes on 3rd December, two adults at Nickoll’s GP on 15th December with one adult there on the 28th, a first-winter bird at Chatham Docks on 26th December, and an adult at Dover on the 31st.
2019	Sevenoaks WR, first-winter, 28th February until 13th March.

Gull-billed Tern

Caspian Tern

Lesser Crested Tern

Bridled Tern

Sooty Tern

Forster’s Tern

Whiskered Tern

White-winged Black Tern

WHITE-WINGED BLACK TERN

Chlidonius leucopterus

Rare but regular passage migrant

1891	The Wicks, Dungeness, two, 30th May.
1937	Dungeness, 17th May.
1951	Hythe, 15th May.
1956	The Wicks, Dungeness, two, 19th May.
	New Romney, 13th June.
1959	Murston pits, immature, 28th-29th August.
1962	Stoke, intermittently from 29th July to 11th August.
	Shellness, Sheppey, 12th August.
	Hook’s Fleet, nr. Allhallows, 26th August.
	Lower Hope Point, 1st September.
1963	Dungeness, adult, 20th August.
1964	Sandwich Bay, 29th May.
1965	Leybourne gravel pits, juvenile, 29th September.
1966	Dungeness, two immature, 22nd August.
1967	Dungeness, immature, 8th-15th August.
	Dungeness, immature, 18th-22nd August.
	Dungeness, immature, 22nd August.
1968	Dungeness, immature, 5th-16th August, and adult, 16th.
	Dungeness, immature, 11th-16th October.
1969	Dungeness, immature, 14th-29th August.
1970	Dungeness, one to three immatures, 28th August to 5th September.
	Dungeness, immature, 4th-9th October.
1971	Lade, Dungeness, 9th-10th May.
	Dungeness, 8th June.
	Dungeness, immature, 20th August.
1972	Dungeness, 8th June.
	Dungeness, immature, 31st July.
	Dungeness, immature, 11th August to 12th September.
	Dungeness, immature, 12th August.
	Dungeness, immature, 1st-11th September.
	Dungeness, immature, 9th-11th September.
1973	Stodmarsh, 31st May.
	Capel Fleet, Sheppey, immature, 18th and 25th-30th August.
	Dungeness, immature, 29th-30th September.
1974	Dungeness, immature, 25th August to 8th September.
	Dungeness, immature, 4th September.
1975	Sandwich Bay, immature, 9th August.
	Dungeness, immature, 16th-28nd August.
	Dungeness, immature, 24th September to 4th October.
1976	Dungeness, adult, 1st July.
	Dungeness, immature, 30th-31st August.
	Bough Beech Reservoir, immature, 26th-30th October.
1977	Margate, first-summer, 8th July.
	Dungeness, immature, 20th-22nd August.
1978	Dungeness, juvenile, 22nd-23rd August.
	Dungeness, another juvenile, 28th August to 3rd September.
	Dungeness, another juvenile, 16th September.
1979	Shellness, juvenile, 18th August.
	Dungeness, juvenile, 20th-25th August.
	Lydd, juvenile, 23rd-25th August, two 25th, but second bird probably same bird as Dungeness.
1981	Stodmarsh, adult, 29th June.
	Cliffe, juvenile, 6th-8th August, same, Elmley, 8th-10th.
	Dungeness, juvenile, 21st-26th August.
1983	Dungeness, juvenile, 5th-24th August.
1984	Dungeness, adult, 21st June.
	Dungeness, juvenile, 1st-7th August.
	Dungeness, juvenile, 17th-23rd August, also at Lydd.
	Grain, juvenile, 26th August to 4th September.
	Dungeness, juvenile, 30th August to 15th September, also at Lydd.
1986	Dungeness, juvenile, 11th-12th August.
	Bough Beech Reservoir, juvenile, 11th August.
	Dungeness, first-winter, 14th-16th September.
1987	Dungeness, 18th June.
	Minnis Bay, adult, 17th September.
1988	Minnis Bay, juvenile, 28th August to 6th September.
	Dungeness, adult, 7th September.
1989	Dungeness, 5th-11th September; same as East Sussex bird.
1990	Dartford, juvenile, 4th-5th September; presumed same as Essex bird.
1991	Nr. Sittingbourne, 3st May; presumed same as Broadness, same as Essex bird.
	Dungeness, adult, 28th-30th May.
	Broadness, 2nd June; presumed same as Sittingbourne, same as Essex bird.
1992	Swale NNR, two, 18th-19th May.
	Dungeness, first-winter, 24th September.
1993	Dungeness, 22nd May.
1995	Dungeness, adult, 13th-15th July.
	Dungeness, adult and juvenile, 23rd July.
1996	Dungeness, adult, 17th June.
1997	Cliffe Pools, adult, 23rd August; presumed same bird, Stodmarsh, 24th.
1998	Oare Marshes, juvenile, 6th September.
1999	Grove Ferry, adult, 6th July.
	Dungeness, juvenile/first-winter, 17th September to 1st October.
2000	Dungeness, 6th May.
	Dungeness, adult, 23rd-25th June.
	Grove Ferry, adult, 10th-13th July.
	Dungeness, adult, 21st September.
2002	Swale NNR, 2nd June.
2003	Grove Ferry, juvenile/first-winter, 18th October.
2004	Cliffe Pools, second-summer, 24th-28th May.
2005	Oare Marshes, juvenile, 3rd September.
2006	Grove Ferry, 18th October.
2007	Dungeness Reserve, juvenile, 20th August.
	Dungeness Reserve, juvenile, 22nd-23rd August.
	Dungeness, single juvenile at “the patch”, 31st August until 8th September.
	Bough Beech, single juvenile, 28th August.
2008	Dungeness Reserve, juvenile, 31st August to 19th September.
	Dungeness Reserve, second juvenile, 12th-19th September.
2009	Cliffe Pools, adult, 23rd August.
2010	Dungeness, juvenile at the ‘patch’, 15th August.
	Cliffe RSPB, juvenile, 23rd September.
2012	Grove Ferry/Stodmarsh, two adults, 26th May.
2013	Cliffe, juvenile seen on the Thames, 22ndAugust.
2015	Dungeness RSPB, two adults, 14th-15th May.
	ARC pits, adult, 18th July.
	Dungeness RSPB, second-winter, 27th August until 10th September.
	Dungeness RSPB, second-winter, 31st August.
	Dungeness RSPB, second-winter, 1st September.
2016	Cliffe Pools, juvenile present on Thames, 5th-6th September.
	Lower Hope Point, adult flew downriver, 15th September.
No Longer Accepted
1904	Lydd, female, 25th May.
	Dungeness, five, 29th May.
1908	Littlestone, one, 29th May.
1911	Near Lydd, two, 1st June.
1922	Romney Marsh, male, 15th May.

Black Tern

Black Guillemot

Tufted Puffin

Pallas’s Sandgrouse

Oriental Turtle Dove

Great Spotted Cuckoo

Scops Owl

Snowy Owl

Tengmalm’s Owl

White-throated Needletail

Alpine Swift

ALPINE SWIFT

Apus melba

Rare but regular Vagrant

1830	Dover, caught, 20th August.
1832	Kingsgate, Thanet, killed early June. The exact date of this bird is uncertain, but is no earlier than 1829 and no later than 1832.
1871	No locality, seen, June.
1891	Dover, picked up exhausted, 6th July.
1902	Bromstone, Thanet, 21st October.
1916	Hythe, nine, 16th May.
1947	Reculver, 26th April.
1961	Cliffe, 7th October.
1962	Deal, 24th June.
1967	Ramsgate, 28th June.
1969	Dover, 15th-18th March, died.
1970	Fan Bay, Dover, 13th September.
1971	Dungeness, 1st August.
1972	Kingsdown, 27th May.
1975	Dover, 7th June.
	Kingsgate Bay, Thanet, 19th-20th July.
1978	RichboroughandPegwell Bay, 13th-17th August.
1980	Sandwich Bay, 27th September.
1981	Hayesden Water, 25th-26th July.
1982	Dungeness, 9th April, also in East Sussex.
	Botany Bay area, 26th September to 1st October.
1983	Dungeness, 8th May, also in East Sussex.
	Dungeness, 11th August.
1984	Dungeness, 3rd June.
1986	Foreness, 13th May.
1987	Dungeness, 21st July.
	Foreness, 16th September.
	Whitstable, 14th October.
1988	North Foreland, two, 24th-28th March, one of which was later found dead on 26th.
	North Foreland, 17th April.
	Sandwich Bay, 21st April.
	Folkestone, 16th May.
1989	Folkestone, 22nd May.
1990	North Foreland, 24th March.
	Sandwich Bay and Kingsdown, 26th April.
	St. Margaret’s, 1st July.
	St. Margaret’s, 4th October.
1992	Foreness, 22nd-23rd April; another 23rd; presumed one of same Minnis Bay 23rd.
	Dungeness, 2nd May; probably same Folkestone, 2nd-3rd, Dover, 3rd, Minnis Bay and Reculver, 4th.
	Foreness, 3rd October.
1993	Worth, 16th April.
	Reculver, two, 23rd-26th April.
	Reculver, 2nd May.
	Capel-le-Ferne, 29th June.
	Cheriton, 20th September.
1994	Capel-le-Ferne, 23rd April.
	Capel-le-Ferne and Folkestone, 19th-20th May.
1995	Abbotscliffe, Capel-le-Ferne, 10th July.
2002	Capel-le-Ferne, flying North-East, 10th April.
	Bockhill, 10th April, presumed same bird.
	Bockhill, flying South-East, 17th May.
2003	Foreness, 8th-9th March.
2004	Bockhill, 7th May.
2006	Bockhill, single bird, 17th April.
2007	Sandwich Bay, one flew north, 4th July.
2010	Larkfield, single bird, 27th March.
	Thanet, single bird, 29th March to 1st April.
	Dungeness, single bird, 31st March to 1st April.
	Folkestone, single bird, 4th-8th April.
	Biddenden, single bird, 26th May.
2013	Cliftonville, single bird, 17th March.
	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 17th-18th March.
2014	Kingsdown, single bird, 9th April.
2017	Margate, single bird, later seen at Shuart, 14th April.
	Bockhill, single bird, later seen over Worth Marshes, 16th April.
	Bockhill, single bird, 1st October.

No Longer Accepted
1908	Ebony, between Rye and Tenterden, seen, 3rd August.
1915	Kingsdown, Deal, ca. 100, July.
	Kingsdown, Deal, five, 22nd July.
	Kingsdown, Deal, five, 3rd August.
1925	Cotman’s Heath, Wittersham, seen early June.

Pallid Swift

Roller

Blue-cheeked Bee-eater

Bee-eater

European Bee-eater

Merops apiaster

Rare but fairly regular vagrant

1827	Kingsgate, Thanet, one shot, May.
pre-1884	Lydd, adult, shot. Exact date unknown. Bird now in Dover Museum.
1882	Mereworth, near Wrotham, adult, 24th June.
1953	Sevenoaks, seen in flight, 15th May.
1955	Sandwich Bay Estate, one present, 6th June.
	St. Mary’s Bay, Dymchurch, flock of ca.12, 25th-26th September. These birds are believed to originate from the East Sussex breeding colony, where 13 birds were seen to fly east from the previous day, and were not to return.
1958	Betteshanger, single bird, 11th July.
1969	Sandwich Bay, one hawking insects, 25th May.
1971	Dungeness, one flew south-east over Channel, 8th June.
1974	Dungeness, singles on 19th May and 7th August.
1978	Dungeness, one flew over, 21st May.
1979	St. Margaret’s, one flew south-east out to sea, 19th May.
	Iwade, single bird, 3rd July.
1981	Westcliffe, Ramsgate, one present, 13th June.
	Kingsgate, single bird, 16th June.
1986	Dungeness, one in off sea, 16th May.
	Dungeness, one flew north-west, 7th June.
1987	Walmer, party of six birds, watched for two hours, 20th June.
	Foreness, one flew west, 5th July.
1988	Dungeness, one seen on 13th June, with another on 6th September.
1989	Foreness, single bird, 24th May.
	St. Margaret’s, a party of five birds flew up-channel, 28th May, and presumed same, four flew south at Sandwich Bay on 29th.
1990	Foreness, one flew west, 16th May.
1991	Dungeness, 4-6 birds present, 31st May.
	Kingsdown, two birds flew north, 29th June. Probably same two birds flew west, Reculver, an hour and a half later.
	Littlestone, single bird, 3rd July.
	Colney Hill, Dover, four flew east, 14th July.
	Sandwich Bay, one flew west, 14th July.
	Dungeness, five present on 27th July, with another on 1st August.
	Walderslade, four flew over, 24th August.
1992	Sandwich Bay, one present, 11th May.
	Foreness, one flew south, 20th May.
1993	Foreness, one flew west, 19th May.
	St. Margaret’s, one north, 2nd June.
	Dungeness, one flew north-west, 5th June.
1995	Whitstable, one east, 13th September.
1997	St. Margaret’s, one flew past, 9th May.
	Birchington, six birds frequented Quex Park, 15th-16th May.
	Dungeness, single bird, 25th May.
	St. Margaret’s, single bird, 29th-30th May.
	Bockhill, single bird, 12th August.
	Dungeness, single bird, 8th September.
1998	Dungeness, single bird present, 23rd May.
	Pegwell Bay, single bird, 10th June.
1999	West Stourmouth, four birds present, 10th May.
	Capel-le-Ferne, one present, 16th May.
	Deal, single bird, 12th June.
	Dungeness, single bird, 12th July.
2001	Capel-le-Ferne, one present, 25th May.
	St. Margaret’s, single bird west, 31st May.
2002	Dungeness, single bird, 9th May.
	Bockhill, single bird, 31st May.
	St. Margaret’s, single bird, 20th June, and again later at Bockhill.
	Rye Street, single bird, 28th June.
	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 15th July.
	Kingsdown, single bird, 4th September.
2003	Dungeness RSPB, single bird present, 6th July.
	Shuart Farm, St. Nicholas-at-Wade, single bird, 13th July.
	Kingsdown, one south, 22nd July.
2004	Dungeness, party of five adults flew over, 16th May. Later tracked via St. Margaret’s, Bockhill, and Kingsdown to Sandwich Bay.
	St. Margaret’s, single bird, 18th May.
	Abbotscliffe, single bird, 18th May.
	Stonar, two birds, 22nd May.
	Pegwell Bay, single bird, 24th May.
	Seasalter, 10 birds flew west, 6th June.
	Foreness, 3 birds flew over, 9th June.
2005	Whiteness, Foreness, single bird, 18th May.
	Kingsgate, two birds, 19th May.
	Kingsgate, three birds west, 28th May.
	Dungeness BO, single bird heard, 16th July.
2006	Dungeness, single bird, 30th-31st May.
2007	Reculver, single bird flew north-west, 23rd May.
	Dungeness, single bird, 27th May.
2008	Dungeness RSPB, single bird present, 12th May.
	Whitstable, single bird heard calling, 13th May.
	Church Hougham, single bird, 14th May.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 14th May.
	Samphire Hoe, single bird, 3rd June.
	Dungeness, single bird, 6th June.
	Worth Marshes, 3 birds flew over, 13th June.
2009	Bough Beech, three birds, 25th May.
	Clay Hill, Dargate, single bird flew west, 29th May.
	Dungeness RSPB, single bird present, 24th July.
2010	Dungeness BO, single bird, 24th May.
	Samphire Hoe, two birds flew west, 8th June.
2012	Dungeness, single birds present, 17th, 19th and 22nd May.
	Foreness, six birds present, 21st May.
	Fowlmead CP, three birds, 21st May.
	Shellness, four birds, 27th May.
	Samphire Hoe, single bird, 3rd June.
	Kingsgate, single bird, 12th June.
2013	Saltwood, Folkestone, a flock of ten, 14thMay.
	Dungeness Point, single bird, 24th May.
	Nicholl’s Quarry, Hythe, single bird, 24th May.
	Grain, single bird, 25th May.
	Bockhill, single bird, 29th May.
	Stonelees, single bird, 8th-10th June.
2014	Dungeness/RSPB, single birds, many between 17th-26th May.
	New Romney, group of four birds, 23rd May.
	Water Tower Pits, Dungeness, group of four birds, 24th May.
	St. Mary-in-the-Marsh, group of four birds, possibly same, 24th May.
	Dungeness BO/RSPB, group of four birds, possibly same, 24th May.
	Bockhill,group of three birds, 23rd May.
	Dungeness RSPB, two birds, possibly same, 1st June.
	Margate, single bird, 31st July.
2015	Dover, five birds, 19th April.
	Kingsdown, single bird, 16th May.
	Pegwell Bay, single bird, 19th May.
	Dungeness RSPB, flock of ten birds, 25th June.
	Kingsdown and later Hawkinge, flock of seven, presumed same, 27th June.
	Pegwell Bay, five birds, 8th July.
	Sandwich Bay, three birds, 10th July.
	Bockhill, four birds, 10th July.
	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 29th July.
	Bockhill, three birds, 3rd August.
	Deal, four birds, 5th August.
2016	Dungeness BO, single bird, 9th May.
	Worth Marshes, two birds, 24th and 28th May.
	Pegwell Bay, single bird, 19th May.
	Margate, single bird, 4th June.
	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 23rd July.
2017	Hythe, single bird, 14th May.
	Dungeness BO, single bird, 15th May.
	St. Margaret’s, single bird, 15th May.
	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 23rd May.
	Willop Basin, Hythe, flock of six, 26th May.
	Dungeness BO, single bird, 27th May.
	Dungeness BO and RSPB, single bird, 2nd June.
	Dengemarsh, single bird, 9th June.
	Pegwell Bay, single bird, 13th June.
	Foreness, single bird, 15th June.
	Dungeness BO, single bird, 17th June.
	Bockhill, single bird, 4th July.
	Dengemarsh, single bird, 4th July.
	Worth Marshes, single bird, 5th July.
2018	Dungeness BO, two birds, 11th May.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 18th May.
	Littlestone, single bird, 23rd-24th May.
	Littlestone, flock of five, 4th June.
	West Hougham, flock of six, 6th June.

Lesser Kestrel

Red-footed Falcon

RED-FOOTED FALCON

Falco vespertinus

Uncommon Vagrant

1862	Sandling Park, nr. Hythe, adult female, summer.
1907	Nr. Gravesend, adult male, 28th April.
1959	Lydd-on-Sea, 28th May.
1960	Nr. Deal, first-summer male, 6th July.
1962	Dungeness, female, 17th April.
	Sevenoaks, female, 8th June.
1963	Dungeness, female, 9th to 22nd June.
1964	Sandwich Bay, immature, 23rd to 30th May.
	Sandwich Bay, another immature 21st to 27th June and 4th to 10th July.
1970	Sandwich Bay, male 26th May.
	Reculver, male, 14th to 17th and 21st June.
1971	Sevenoaks, male, 29th April.
1973	Sandwich Bay, female, 26th May.
	Dungeness, female, 26th-28th May.
	Harty, Isle of Sheppey, immature, 18th to 19th August.
1974	Sandwich Bay, male, first summer male, 1st to 14th June.
	Dungeness, immature female, 7th to 14th June.
1977	Stodmarsh, immature and a sub-adult, 29th May.
1978	Sandwich Bay, female, 1st June.
1978	Dungeness, male, 14th June.
1979	Stodmarsh, male, 28th June.
1980	St. Margaret’s Bay, male, 3rd May.
1982	Sandwich Bay, female, 19th to 29th May.
	Throwley, nr. Faversham, first-summer male, 29th May.
1983	Margate, male, 14th May.
1985	Dungeness, male, 20th April.
	Stour Valley, first-summer male, 30th May.
1987	Stodmarsh, first-summer male, 25th April.
	Pegwell Bay, female, 2nd May.
	Foreness, female, 27th May.
	Walland Marsh and Dungeness area, first-summer male, 2nd to 6th July.
	Capel Fleet and Elmley area, first-summer male, 14th to 15th August.
	St. Margaret’s, male, 19th September.
1988	Sandwich Bay, female, 20th June.
	Ash, female, injured and taken into care, 23rd July.
	Old Romney, juvenile, 30th October.
1989	Warehorne, female, 9th May.
	Brookland, first-summer female, 12th to 14th May.
	Dungeness, male, 21st May.
	Oare, female, 22nd May.
1990	St Margaret’s Bay, male, 27th June.
1992	Rushenden, first-summer male, 14th May.
	Minnis Bay, first-summer male, 14th May.
	Stodmarsh, at least seven: female, 20th May, at least two females 22nd May, three first-summer females, three females, 23rd to 25th, male, age uncertain, 27th, presumed one of same, male, age uncertain, 10th June, presumed additional.
	Northbourne, first-summer male, 23rd May.
	Sandwich Bay, female, 3rd June.
	Sandwich Bay, male, 10th June.
	St. Margaret’s Bay, female, 15th June.
	Sandwich Bay, female, age uncertain, 15th June.
	Sandwich Bay, male, age uncertain, 25th June.
	Dungeness, first-summer male, 7th to 9th September.
1993	St. Margaret’s, female, 29th June.
1994	Stodmarsh, first-summer female, 9th to 11th May.
1995	Dungeness, female, 10th May.
1997	Stodmarsh, male, 5th May.
	Dungeness, male, 22nd July.
1998	Dungeness, first-summer male, 31st May.
1999	St. Margaret’s, male, 20th May.
	Deal, female, 9th to 10th July.
2000	Stodmarsh, female, 10th to 14th May.
	Collard’s Lake, female, 11th to 14th May.
2001	St. Margaret’s Bay, first-summer male, 12th May.
	Lydd Ranges, adult male, 12th May.
2003	Grove Hill/Collards Lake, first-summer male, 31st May.
	Dungeness, first-summer male, 31st May.
	Eastborough, first-summer male, 1st June.
	Capel Fleet area, first summer male, 6th-12th June.
	Bockhill, adult male, north, 15th June.
	Cliffe, adult male, 15th June.
2004	Grove Ferry, adult male, 24th April.
2007	Dungeness RSPB, first summer male, 3rd-5th May.
	Sandwich Bay, adult female flew south, 5th August.
2008	Swale NNR, female on seawall, 8th May.
	Northwood Hill RSPB, adult male, 9th May.
	Sandwich Bay BO, adult male, at Backsand Scrape, 9th May.
	Grove Ferry, adult male, 24th May.
	Collard’s Lake/Stodmarsh area, adult female, 1st-9th June.
2009	Sandwich Bay, female, flew SE, at Backsand Scrape, 26th August.
2010	Whetsted GP, single bird, 12th June.
	Dungeness, single bird, 22nd June.
2011	Walland Marsh, single bird, 12th May.

2015	Worth Marshes, juvenile bird, 23rd September.
2017	Worth Marshes, single male, 20th June.
	Grove Ferry, first-summer male, possibly same as at Worth, 25th June until 2nd July.
No Longer Accepted
1895	Dungeness, male, August.
1908	Nr. Ashford, adult female, 10th June.
1932	Beckenham, 20th May. No longer in modern Kent.
1976	Dungeness, male, 30th May.

Gyrfalcon

Acadian Flycatcher

Daurian Shrike

Turkestan Shrike

Lesser Grey Shrike

Steppe Grey Shrike

Woodchat Shrike

WOODCHAT SHRIKE

Lanius senator

Rare Migrant

pre.1835	Canterbury, immature male, killed, date uncertain.
1841	Sackett’s Hill, nr. Broadstairs, shot, 6th May.
pre.1851	Location and date unknown, single male. Now in Exeter Museum.
1857	Tonbridge, single bird, shot and wounded, 14th May.
1868	Murston, single bird shot, towards end of July.
1888	Folkestone Warren, date unknown. Now in Canterbury Museum.
1891	Nr. Sittingbourne, single bird, 24th February.
1907	Tunbridge Wells, single bird, 23rd May.
1934	Longfield, nr. Gravesend, male of race L.s. weigoldi, first seen 24th April and later found dead on 9th May. Now in national collection British Museum (Natural History).
1937	Ash Levels, nr. Canterbury, male and female, 5th May.
1946	Isle of Grain, single bird, 12th May.
1947	New Romney, single bird, 5th June.
1948	Sandwich, adult, 5th July.
1953	Dungeness, juvenile trapped, 23rd August.
1954	Sheerness, single bird, 24th June.
	Swalecliffe, single bird, 26th August.
1955	Allhallows, juvenile, 4th-18th September.
1956	Dungeness, juvenile first seen on 19th August, was ringed on 20th, and was seen again 29th-31st, with another juvenile from 5th-8th September, ringed on 7th.
1959	Dungeness, juvenile trapped, 13th August.
1961	Dungeness, adult, 11th June.
1962	Sandwich Bay, first-winter, 14th-31st August.
1965	Dungeness, first-winter, 22nd August to 13th September, trapped, 28th August.
1968	Sandwich Bay, immature, 6th October.
1969	Sandwich Bay, male, 28th May.
	Kingsdown, male, 16th June.
1971	Dungeness, single bird, 25th April.
	Littlebrook, nr. Dartford, single bird, 5th and 7th May.
1972	Dungeness area, single bird, 26th June.
1976	Dungeness, adult male, 28th May.
	Dungeness, immature, 8th September.
1977	Langley, adult, 28th June to 2nd July.
	Kingsdown, immature, 3rd September.
1978	Dungeness, single bird, 4th May.
	Minster-in-Thanet, immature, 8th October.
1979	Sandwich Bay, immature trapped, 7th-9th October.
1981	Dungeness Reserve, single bird, 7th-8th June.
1984	Kingsgate, Thanet, immature, 6th-16th October.
1986	Cliffe, single bird, 14th-16th May.
1987	Bretts Pits, Lydd, first-summer male, 26th April.
1991	Brockhill Park, Folkestone, first-summer male, 23rd May.
1993	Dungeness, adult female, 5th June.
	Dungeness, juvenile, 18th August.
1995	Dungeness, adult male, 15th-21st July, trapped 18th.
1996	Church Hougham, probable female, 13th June.
1997	Reculver, single bird, 23rd-30th April.
1998	Dungeness, first-summer male, 23rd June to 3rd July.
1999	Lydd, adult male, 13th June.
2000	Dungeness, juvenile, 15th-16th August.
2004	Chambers Wall, Reculver, female, 19th-22nd April.
	Minnis Bay, male, 5th June.
2005	Cliffe, 4th-8th June.
2007	Dungeness, female, 23rd May.
2009	Whitstable, single bird, 2nd May.
2010	Shuart, single bird, 1st May.
2011	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 17th-19th May.
2014	Foreness, single bird, 2nd June.
2016	Seaton GPs, single bird, 23rd May.
2017	Dungeness, male, 12th May.
2019	Seaton GPs, first-winter bird, 30th October.
No longer accepted
1907	Hadlow, adult male, shot, 4th July.
	Newchurch, Romney Marsh, single bird shot, no date.
1909	Romney Marsh, single bird showing characters of L.s. badius, 29th June.
1918	Fairfield, Romney Marsh, shot, June. Now in Maidstone Museum.
1953	Sandling/Boxley Abbey, summer plumage, 4th July.
1968	Aycliffe, nr. Dover, male, 1st July.
	Herne Bay, single bird, 13th and 15th October.

Red-eyed Vireo

Nutcracker

NUTCRACKER

Nucifraga caryocatactes

Rare Vagrant, except in explosion years

pre-1781	No locality, no date.
pre-1816	Darenth, no date, now at Natural History Museum, Tring.
1841	Sackett’s Hill, Broadstairs, seen, no date.
1885	Strode Park, Herne, 15th-17th November, when shot.
1904	Godlands, Tovil, seen, November.
1907	Riverhill, Sevenoaks, year unknown but prior to 1909.
1908	Riverhill, Sevenoaks, two birds, year unknown but prior to 1909 and year following previous record.
1911	Broom Park, nr. Canterbury, male, found dying, early October, now at Royal Canterbury Museum.
	Broom Park, nr. Canterbury, 18th November, now at Maidstone College.
1953	Ashley, 25th December.
1963	Springhead, Northfleet, trapped, 26th August.
1967	Dungeness, 5th September.
1968	Denton, 7th August.
	Quex Park, Birchington, 9th August.
	Foreness Point, Margate, 22nd-23rd August.
	Dover, four together, 24th August.
	Quex Park, Birchington, 25th August to 3rd September, and same bird, Westwood, Margate, 4th-7th September.
	Sandwich, 26th-31st August.
	Broadstairs, 6th-27th August.
	Mersham, nr. Ashford, 28th August.
	Chalk,Gravesend, 28th August.
	Doddington, trappedand ringed, 30th August to11th September.
	Worth, 1st September.
	Fordwich, 2nd September.
	Hoath and East Blean Woods, 3rd and 5th September.
	Sandwich, 7th and 18th September.
	Eastling, 11th September.
	Bicknor, 17th September.
	Nonington, three dates between 21st and 30th September.
	Gillingham, 29th September.
	Sandwich, 7th October.
	Tunbridge Wells, 14th-20th October.
	High Halstow, 24th October.
	Deal, 2nd-4th November.
	Bearsted, 16th November, until autumn 1969.
	Maidstone, 23rd November to 5th March 1969.
	Gillingham, 10th and 14th December.
	Lenham, 14th December.
1969	Minster, Sheppey, 9th February.
	Thornden Wood, Canterbury, 22nd-25th June.
	Dungeness, 25th and 27th September.
1972	Bedgebury, two, 27th December.
1985	Northwood Hill, 23rd October.
1998	Kingsdown, 6th-7th September.
No Longer Accepted
1905	Benenden, male, 14th January.
1907	Edenbridge, killed, 29th December.

Chough

Hooded Crow

Corvus cornix

Scarce passage migrant and winter visitor

The BOU took the decision in 2002 to split Hooded Crow from Carrion Crow, Corvus corone. With over 200 records in Kent to date, those records shown here are only representative since that split.

2003	Swale area, single bird, from 6th October to year end. First seen at Swale NNR, and then often both north and south of the Swale.
	Nether Hale, single bird, 27th November.
2004	The over-wintering bird on the Swale N.N.R., was joined by a second bird between 8th January and 7th March. One remained until 16th March.
	Whitstable, single bird, 7th January, was probably one of the Swale birds.
	Brooksend, single bird, 16th March, was probably the returning Nether Hale bird from 2003.
	Minnis Bay, single bird, 16th March.
	Bockhill, one in off sea and flew north, 26th October.
	Foreness, one flying south-west, 29th October.
	Nether Hale, single bird, 27th November, was probably the same returning from 2003.
	Swale, the now regular wintering bird returned from 17th November, until the year end.
2005	Swale, the regular wintering bird remained until 25th March, with a second bird present on east Sheppey from 21st-31st January.
	Nether Hale, single bird, presumed to be the same throughout was present on 12th and 23rd January, and on 7th March.
	Foreness, one present 18th-19th March.
	Bishopstone, one flew east, 5th April.
	Harty Marshes, what was presumably the returning Swale bird, was present from 10th-17th December.
2006	Swale, presumably the same regular wintering bird remained until 11th March.
	Swale, single bird present, 20th November until 15th December.
	Seasalter, two birds, 2nd December.
2007	Swale, one possibly two birds, remained on SE Sheppey until at least 4th March.
	Seasalter, briefly, 7th January.
	Sackett’s Hill, Margate, single bird, 26th July.
	Swale NNR, presumably the same regular wintering bird returned on 30th November.
2008	East Sheppey, various sites, single bird, presumably from winter 2007, until 4th March.
	East Sheppey, presumably the same regular wintering bird returned on 8th December.
2009	East Sheppey, various sites, single bird, presumably from winter 2008, until 16th March.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, possibly East Sheppey bird, 24th March.
	East Sheppey, presumably the same regular wintering bird returned on 16th December.
2010	Swale NNR, single bird, 7th February, was almost certainly the same bird as December 2009.
	Dungeness, single bird, 1st April.
	Dungeness, single bird, 21st October.
	Reculver/Minnis, two birds, 28th October, one staying until end of year.
2012	Abbotscliffe and Aycliffe, single bird, 12th May.
	Dungeness, presumed same bird, 13th May.
2013	Swale NNR, single bird, 23rdJanuary until 23rd March.
	Swale NNR, possibly same bird, 19th December.
2014	East Sheppey, the regular bird lingered around from December 2013 until at least Jan 24th.
	Seasalter, single bird, 5th March.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 12th-13th April.
	Dungeness BO, single bird, 3rd May.
	East Sheppey, the regular bird re-appeared on 30th November and remained in the area until the end of the year.
2015	East Sheppey, the regular bird lingered around from December 2013 until at least 3^rdMarch, re-appearing again from 28^thDecember into 2016.
2016	East Sheppey, the regular bird lingered around from December 2015 until at least 4th March, re-appearing again on 11th December.
	Seasalter, single bird, 17th March.
	Foreness, single bird, 26th March.
	Dungeness, single bird, 3rd-7th April.
	Abbotscliffe, single bird, 23rd April.
	Foreness, single bird, 1st May.
	Halling, single bird, 23rd-30th August.
	Manston, single bird, 23rd October.
2017	Harty Ferry, single bird, 11th January.
	Seasalter, single bird, 10th March.
	Cliftonville, single bird, 11th March.
	Sheppey, single bird, 18th-30th December.
2018	East Sheppey and Seasalter, this regular bird lingered around from the beginning of January until 9th March.
	Graveney Marshes, single bird, 25th February.
	Wingham, single bird, 4th March.
	Conyer, single bird, 14th March.
	Bockhill, single bird, 26th March.
	Pegwell Bay, single bird, 3rd May.
2019	Reculver Marshes, single bird, 24th- 26th January.
	Dungeness/Lade, single bird, 25th February.

Raven

Corvus corax

Rare visitor, formerly bred. Status clouded by escapes.

Nested in the county until the late nineteenth century, when there were three nests between Folkestone and Dover in 1890. The origins of the occasional record of this species must always be in doubt as it is a favourite species with aviculturalists, and has escaped and even been released on a number of occasions. The westward spread of this bird on the Continent continues. Records here begin from the first Kent Bird Report in 1952.

1957	Cliffe, single bird, low overhead, 8th March.
1959	Warden, Sheppey, single bird, 8th November.
1960	Sevenoaks, two birds flew west, 2nd July.
	Lydd, single bird, 3rd May.
1963	Northward Hill, single birds seen on 3rd March, and another on 29th December.
1965	Northward Hill, two birds on 3rd January, and a single on 21st February.
1967	Hildenborough, one flew north, 7th July, with two birds over, 21st August.
1968	Hollingbourne, single bird, 23rd January.
1973	Sevenoaks, single bird, 25th September
	Wrotham, single bird, 30th October.
1975	Sevenoaks, one west, 12th April.
1978	Dungeness, single bird, 26th April.
	Coxheath, Maidstone, single bird, 11th June.
1979	Worth, one flew south-east, 4th February.
1981	Langley, Maidstone, single bird, 15th June. .
1986	Sandwich Bay, single bird over, 14th May.
	Crundale, single bird over, 2nd July.
	Bough Beech, single bird over, 28th September.
1987	Dungeness, single bird over, 25th May.
1990	Dungeness, single bird over, 7th May.
1991	Shuart, Minnis Bay, single bird amongst mixed corvid flock moving south-west, 17th September.
1994	North Foreland, single bird flew south-west, 21st April.
	Herne, single bird flew south, 10th June.
1996	Bough Beech, two birds over, 3rd August, and presumably the same pair over the nearby Winkhurst Wood, 5th August.
1997	Dungeness, many sightings between 16th January and 5th April, probably relate to two or three individuals.
1998	Dungeness, single bird present, 3rd February until 21st April.
2001	Blean Woods, two birds over, 17th August.
2006	Scotney Court, Lydd, two birds, 25th February.
	Samphire Hoe/Capel-le-Ferne, two birds, seen on several occasions, 19th April until 6th May.
	Dartford, two birds over, 14th May.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird over, 26th September.
2007	Samphire Hoe, two birds, 26th March. These birds were seen into April with presumably the same birds visiting Capel-le-Fern, Wye, and Dungeness.
	Kingswood, Maidstone, possibly a different bird, 17th June.
	St. Mary’s Bay, Dymchurch, possibly one of the original birds on 6th August.
	Dover, two birds, 10th August, and between 30th September and 17th October, they were seen at Dungeness, Scotney, and Chartham.
	Belmont Park, Sheldwich, had a single on 23rd October.
	Dungeness Reserve hosted the wandering two on 10th December.
2008	Samphire Hoe, up to four birds present up until 25th April.
	Boughton Park, single bird, 1st February.
	Bedgebury Pinetum, single bird, 8th February.
	Godmersham, single bird, 14th February.
	Capel-le-Ferne, single bird, 31st March.
	Lydden Down, single bird, 25th April.
	Kingswood, Maidstone, single bird, March.
	Bough Beech, single bird, April.
	Kearnsey, four birds over, 22nd July.
	Dungeness BO, four birds over, 23rd July.
	St. Margaret’s, two birds, 22nd August.
	Newington, two birds, 14th September.
	Samphire Hoe, two birds, 19th September.
	St. Margaret’s, three birds, 27th September.
	Samphire Hoe, four birds, 28th September.
	Samphire Hoe, two birds, 6th October until late December.
	Dover, two birds, 10th October.
	Foreness, three birds, 4th November.
	Little Cheyne Court, single bird, 23rd November.
	Bedgebury Pinetum, single bird, 23rd November.
	Bockhill, two birds, 6th December.
	Sandwich Bay, two birds, 11th December.
	New Romney, single bird, 19th December.
	Bedgebury Pinetum, two birds, 20th December.
	Bockhill, two birds, 23rd December.
2009	Pegwell Bay to Dungeness, reports from various localities of one-two birds during January to April. Impossible to say how many birds in total present.
	Pembury, two birds present during January.
	Dungeness, two birds, 15th March.
	Capel-le-Ferne, two birds, 15th March.
	Dungeness, two birds, 15th March.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 15th March.
	Boughton Park, single bird, 15th March.
	East area, four young fledged from a cliff site.
	North area, two young fledged from a quarry site.
	Bockhill, four birds, 10th October.
	Abbotscliffe, two birds, 10th October.
	Paddock Wood, two birds, during September.
	Cliffe Pools, two birds, during September.
	Bough Beech, single bird, during October.
	Cooling, single bird, during October.
2010	Up to five of this recent colonist appeared at four sites in Central, 10 in East, three in North and seven in both South and West, but wandering individuals, pairs or families make total numbers difficult to assess. Favoured areas in the first four months were Bedgebury in Central, Bockhill, Church Hougham, Langdon Cliffs, North Foreland and Pegwell Bay in East, Botolphs Bridge, Dungeness, Royal Military Canal at Hythe and Samphire Hoe in South and Bough Beech and Halling in West. Breeding was reported from one site in West and one in East, only the latter producing young. In the May-August period Ravens additionally paid visits to Leeds Castle in Central, Chilham in East, Capel-le-Ferne, in South, where there were two adults and two juveniles in June, and Wouldham in West. In the last four months new places on the itinerary were Boughton Park, Cranbrook and Sissinghurst in Central, South Foreland in East, Folkestone (three birds) and Scotney GPs in South, Cliffe in North and Knockholt and New Hythe in West.
2012	In the first half of the year this huge passerine was seen at one site in Central, eight in East, one in North, eight in South and three in West. The total of 21 is the same as for 2011. Highest counts were family parties of five at St Margaret’s on Mar 8th, six at Dungeness on May 22nd after four young fledged, four at Cliffe on June 19th and four at Wouldham on the 21st. In the second half of the year 26 sites were visited, the same as in 2011. A pair bred and fledged four young at a site in West (per KOS Database).
2013	One-two of our largest passerine made their presence felt at five sites in Central. In East 26 sites were favoured, with highest counts of five at Sandwich Bay in December and four there and at St Margaret’s in October. There were reports from 16 sites in North, with three birds at Elmley NNR and 15 in South with up to three birds at Samphire Hoe in October. Of 12 sites in West, Cobham recorded four in June and there were three at Wouldham in July. In February a bird was seen carrying food near Dover and in May there was a nest with two young at Swanscombe and two adults and four young at Dungeness.
2014	Recorded during every month of the year with the highest counts at the beginning of the year were six at Folkestone Warren in February and three at Sandwich Bay in March. Rather like last year there were nests at Swanscombe and Dungeness with three and four young respectively. Later in the year highest counts were three at Bockhill in August and October and four at Dungeness and three at Cliffe Pools in September.
2015	Recorded during every month of the year with the highest counts at the beginning of the year were six at Samphire Hoe in January, four at Kingsdown in February, and six at St Margaret’s and four at Pegwell Bay in April. Probable breeding was reported from Capel-le-Ferne and successful breeding from Dungeness PS, Swanscombe and Cliffe Pools where one bird was seen feeding on a lamb’s carcass. High counts during the rest of the year included four at Folkestone on July 10^th, four at Temple Ewell on the 13^th and four at Oare Marshes on the 18^th. Six were seen at Samphire Hoe on several dates during August, with further sixes in September at Capel-le-Ferne on the 12^th and Bough Beech on the 26^th. There was an impressive count of 12 at Samphire Hoe on Oct 2^nd with four at Abbotscliffe on the 14^th, followed by five at Dungeness RSPB Reserve on Nov 28^th and 11 at Bedgebury Pinetum on Dec 17^th.
2016	Ravens are early breeders and the first report of nest building came from Swanscombe on Feb 16th. Breeding reports came from three other sites although it would appear that Ravens are now established as breeding species across the county. Broods or family parties appeared at Samphire Hoe, Seasalter, Vauxhall Lakes, Lydden and Lower Rainham. One bird was seen raiding Black-headed Gull nests on Fowley Island and taking the contents to Sheppey. At Bough Beech one was seen sporting jesses. The highest count of the year was nine at Samphire Hoe in January, while counts of five birds were received from Coldred, Dungeness, Harbledown and Otterham Creek.
2017	In January one bird was seen to attack a Peregrine at St. Margaret’s on 4th January. Breeding was reported from Dungeness Peninsula, Rede Common, Samphire Hoe and Swanscombe. Fledged young were also at Bockhill, Chetney, Cliffe Pools and Dungeness. Power Station. Highest individual counts were 10 at Dungeness BO in September, seven at Sandwich Bay in September, seven also at Kenardington in October and six at Beachborough in June.
2018	Highest individual counts at the beginning of the year were eight each at Graveney Marshes and Samphire Hoe in March and six in April in the Dungeness area. Active nests were reported from Aycliffe in February, Swanscombe in March, Samphire Hoe and Dungeness RSPB in April. Nests with young were reported from Bockhill in March, Capel-le-Ferne in May and Beachborough and Blean Woods in June. Highest counts in the latter part of the year were five in July at Samphire Hoe, five on the Dungeness Peninsula in August and in October six at Lympne Park Wood and five at Beachborough.

Penduline Tit

PENDULINE TIT

Remiz pendulinus

Rare Vagrant, though now almost annual at Dungeness

1980	Stodmarsh, male, 18th May.
1983	St. Margaret’s Bay, 17th and 27th October.
	Stodmarsh, male, 21st November.
1984	Stodmarsh, male, 1st-25th March, same as 1983 individual.
1988	Dungeness, female/first-year, 13th October.
	Stodmarsh, first-year, trapped, 25th October.
	Westbere, 21st December.
1990	Garrington, Littlebourne, male, at nest, 21st April to 1st May.
	Sandwich Bay, 8th-10th May.
1991	Sandwich Bay, adult and first-winter, 9th-10th October, first-winter trapped, 9th.
	Pegwell Bay, male, 14th October.
	Dungeness, 30th-31st October.
1993	Dungeness, adult, two juveniles, 1st-6th November.
	Dungeness, juvenile, 15th-17th November.
	Dungeness, adult, 15th-16th November.
1994	Dungeness, five, including one male, 4th-18th March; two, 7th October; male, 28th October and 1st November.
1995	Dungeness, juvenile 13th October; juvenile, 19th October; adult and two juveniles, 27th October to 22nd March 1996.
1996	Dungeness, male, 19th-21st October.
	Singleton Lake, Ashford, two males.
1997	New Hythe, 14th-17th March.
	Dungeness, male and one other, 26th-28th October; male, same bird as E. Sussex.
	Dungeness, another male [see 26th-28th October], 6th November to 19th February 1998, possibly to 14th March 1998.
1998	Dungeness, male, 20th November.
	Dungeness, another male, 20th November to 14th March 1999.
1999	Dungeness, intermittently, 28th October to 29th December.
2000	Dungeness, age uncertain, 22nd October.
2002	Dungeness BO, 2 birds flew overhead, 23rd October.
2003	Dungeness, five birds, 2 male, female, and 2 juveniles, 24th October.
	Dungeness, juvenile, 10th November.
2004	Dungeness BO, 2 birds, 26th October.
2005	Dungeness, 14th November.
2006	Stodmarsh, female, 11th-12th January.
	New Hythe GP, 4th April.
	Grove Ferry, 9th November.
2007	Swanscombe, single bird, 29th-30th January.
2008	North Stream, Sandwich Bay, single bird, 13th October.
2009	Dungeness, four birds, the first arriving on 25th October and the last on 27^th November, remained until year end.
2010	ARC pits, three birds, from previous year, until 26th January.
	Grove Ferry, up to three birds, 25th January until 3rd April.
	ARC pits, three birds, 23rd March until 6th April.
	ARC pits, male, 23rd-27th October, and again 4th December.
2011	Dungeness RSPB, adult male, 17th February until 21st March.
	Dungeness RSPB, adult male, presumed same, 15th October until 28th December.
2012	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 20th February until 3rd March. This individual returned in the autumn between 15th October and 13thNovember.
	Oare Marshes, single bird, 30th-31st October.
	Grove Ferry, one bird appeared6th November, rising to four birds by 9th with one remaining until the 13th.
	Shuart Farm, single bird, on 8th November. Flew off in the direction of Grove Ferry, and was almost certainly one of the four seen there on the 9th.
2013	Stodmarsh, male, 5th January, and again on 6th-11th February, and was joined by a female on 10th February until 6th April.
	Dungeness RSPB, two birds, 9th February.
	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 10thApril.
	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 20th April.
	Dungeness RSPB, single fly-over bird, 30thSeptember.
	Dungeness RSPB, juvenile bird, 26th October.
2014	Dungeness RSPB, two birds including and adult male, 15th February until the 9th March.
2016	Dungeness RSPB, two birds, 6th-24th January.
	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 4th and 11th February.
2019	Grove Ferry, single bird, 21st-25th January and again 18th-25th March.

Crested Lark

Short-toed Lark

Calandra Lark

Red-rumped Swallow

RED-RUMPED SWALLOW

Hirundo daurica

Uncommon Passage Vagrant

1959	Murston clay pits, nr. Sittingbourne, 28th August.
1960	Yalding gravel pits, 21st May.
1968	Stodmarsh, 20th April.
	Walland Marsh, 30th April.
1972	Bough Beech Reservoir, 28th August.
1973	Stodmarsh, 5th May.
1975	Stodmarsh, 11th May.
1976	Dungeness, 9th May.
1984	Sandwich Bay, 10th October.
1987	Reculver, 22nd October.
	St. Margaret’s Bay, 1st November.
1988	Bough Beech Reservoir, 23rd April.
	Sandwich Bay BO, two birds, 26th April.
	Dungeness, 13th June.
1990	Stodmarsh, 14th-15th, then nearby Westbere, 15th-22nd April.
	Dungeness, two, 22nd April.
	Whiteness, near Foreness, 28th April.
	Dungeness, 4th May.
	Foreness, 17th November.
1991	Stodmarsh area, 14th-18th June.
1992	Folkestone, 23rd May.
1993	St. Margaret’s, 5th June.
	Isle of Grain, 25th September, also in Essex.
1994	Foreness, 30th April.
	Stodmarsh, 8th-9th May.
	North Foreland, 28th October.
1995	Dungeness, 6th-7th May.
	Capel-le-Ferne, 7th May.
1997	New Hythe, 8th May.
	Cliffe, 10th May.
1998	Dungeness, 12th May.
1999	Monk’s Wall and Westbere, 5th-6th April.
	Grain, 3rd September.
2000	Dungeness, two, 22nd April.
	Bockhill, St. Margaret’s, two, 7th May.
2002	Grove Ferry, 3rd May.
	Dungeness, adult male, 19th May.
	Dungeness, 25th May.
2003	Dungeness RSPB, 26th April.
	Wouldham, 26th April.
	Dungeness, 1st May.
	Capel-le-Ferne, 6th May.
	Capel-le-Ferne, 27th May.
2004	Northwood Hill, 30th April.
	Bockhill, 2nd May.
	Capel-le-Ferne, two, also seen at Samphire Hoe, 12th-13th May.
	Grove Ferry, 12th May.
	Bockhill, 15th May.
	St. Margaret’s, 17th June.
2006	Bockhill, single bird, 27th April.
	Dungeness/Lade Pits, single bird, 7th-9th May.
	Dungeness/ARC Pits area, 30th May until 1st June.
2007	Dungeness, single bird, 21st April.
2008	Dungeness, single bird, 4th May.
	Bockhill, single bird, 4th May.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird flew north, 19th May.
2009	Bockhill, single bird, 26th April.
	Deal, single bird, 18th May.
2010	Minster Water Treatment Works, single bird, 21st-23rd April.
2011	Kingsdown, two birds, 13th April.
	Capel-le-Ferne, single bird, 19th May.
	Bough Beech, single bird, 17th May.
	Chamber’s Wall, single bird, 22nd May.
2012	Greatstone, single bird, 7th-9th May.
	Capel-le-Ferne, single bird, 12th May.
	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 16th May.
2013	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 24th April.
	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 27th April.
	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 2nd May.
	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 13th May.
	ARC Pits, Dungeness, single bird, 24th-25th May.
	Grove Ferry, single bird, 20th May.
	Swalecliffe, single bird flew east, 17th June.
2014	Grove Ferry, single bird, 22nd April.
	Lade Pits, single bird, 2nd May.
	Reculver, single bird, 13th May.
	Dungeness BO, a late juvenile bird, 6th November.
2015	Reculver, single bird, 25th April.
	Cliffe Pools, single bird, 26th April.
2016	Capel-le-Ferne, single bird, 8th May.
2017	Grove Ferry, single bird, 8th May.
	Bockhill, single bird, 3rd June.
2018	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 22nd April.
	Stodmarsh, single bird, 2nd May.
	Reculver, single bird, 10th May.
	Kingsdown, two birds, 24th May.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 27th May.
2019	Stodmarsh, single bird, 14th-15th April.
	Reculver Marshes, single bird flew west, 2nd May.
	Bough Beech, single bird, 25th May.
No Longer Accepted
1964	Ruxley gravel pit, 25th April. NB: No longer in modern Kent.

Western Bonelli’s Warbler

Hume’s Warbler

Radde’s Warbler

Dusky Warbler

DUSKY WARBLER

Phylloscopus fuscatus

Rare Autumn Migrant

1967	Dungeness, first-year female, 10th-15th November, trapped 11th.
1976	Grain Moat, 30th October.
1978	Sandwich Bay, 11th-15th November, trapped 1th.
1980	Dungeness, first-year, trapped, 6th November.
1983	Grain, 9th November.
	Sandwich Bay, trapped, 22nd November.
1986	Sandwich Bay, first-winter, 2nd-3rd November, trapped 2nd.
1987	Bishopstone, nr. Reculver, 19th-23rd October.
	Dungeness, first-winter, 20th-21st October, trapped 20th.
	Sandwich Bay, trapped, 25th October.
	Minnis Bay, 31st October to 2nd November.
	Dungeness, 31st October to 2nd November, trapped 31st.
1989	North Foreland, 12th November.
1990	Minnis Bay, 20th-21st October.
1992	St. Margaret’s, 12th October.
1993	Foreness, 1st November.
1995	Sandwich Bay, first-winter, 30th-31st October, trapped 30th.
	Sandwich Bay, first-winter, 31st October to 5th November, trapped 31st.
1996	North Foreland, 17th October.
	North Foreland, 15th November.
1997	North Foreland, 17th-18th October.
1999	Dungeness, 2nd November.
	Dungeness, another, 4th-6th November, trapped 4th.
	Dungeness, another, 6th-9th November, trapped 6th.
2001	Chamber’s Wall, 25th-26th September.
	Dungeness, first-winter, 29th September to 3rd October, trapped 9th.
	Foreness, 23rd October.
2004	Minnis Bay, 9th October.
	Pegwell, 1st-4th November.
	Samphire Hoe, 25th-28th November.
2005	Dungeness Reserve, 8th October.
	Dungeness Observatory, 12th-13th November.
2007	Bishopstone Glen, single bird, 25th-29th October.
2008	Bockhill, single bird, 26th-27th September.
2009	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 23rd-25th October.
2011	Reculver, single bird, 15th October.
2012	Reculver, single bird, 22nd October.
2014	Shuart Farm, single bird photographed, 15th October.
2015	Dungeness BO, single bird, 26th October until 1st November.
2016	Kingsdown, single bird, 25th-29th October.
2017	Chambers Wall, single bird, 18th September.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird trapped, 15th-17th October.
	Chequers PH, Worth, 3rd-5th November.
2019	Medway, single bird, trapped and ringed at private site, 17th October.

Iberian Chiffchaff

Greenish Warbler

Arctic Warbler

Great Reed Warbler

Aquatic Warbler

AQUATIC WARBLER

Acrocephalus paludicola

Rare Autumn Passage Migrant

1907	Dungeness, 7th September, two/three, 10th September.
1915	Dungeness, 30th August.
1916	Dungeness, 12th September.
1926	Preston, male, shot, 10th August, now at Maidstone Museum.
1931	Dungeness, 14th September.
1937	Cheyne Court, Walland Marsh, 22nd August.
1938	Dungeness Lighthouse, first-year, picked up dead, 26th September.
1951	Near Dungeness, 5th September.
1955	Dungeness, single bird trapped, 15th August.
1959	Dungeness, single bird trapped, 2nd August.
1960	Dungeness, single bird, 18th September.
1961	Long Pits, Dungeness, single bird, 24th September.
1962	Sandwich Bay, single bird trapped, 9th September.
1963	Dungeness, single bird, 1st September.
	Dungeness, single bird trapped, 21st September.
1964	Dungeness, single bird, 27th September.
	Sevenoaks WR, single bird, 21st August.
1975	Dungeness, single bird, 2nd September.
	Dungeness, single bird, 10th-14th September.
1976	Lower Hope Point, first-year, 9th August.
1979	Minster-in-Thanet, first-year trapped, 25th August.
	Cliffe Pools, single bird, 21st September.
1980	Sandwich Bay, single birds, 9th and 22nd August.
1981	Elmley, single bird, 6th August.
	Cliffe, single bird, 16th September.
	Dungeness, single bird, 20th September.
1983	Foreness, single bird, 8th August.
	Foreness, another, 9th August.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird trapped, 10th August.
1984	Dungeness, single bird, 26th August.
1985	Walland Reservoir, single bird, 13th August.
1986	Dungeness, single bird, 15th September.
1987	Cliffe, single bird, 22nd-24th August.
1989	Stodmarsh, single bird trapped, 4th August.
1991	Foreness, single bird, 2nd September.
1993	Elmley, single bird, 29th-31st August.
1994	Stodmarsh, single bird trapped, 14th August.
1995	Elmley, three birds, 20th-25th August, including one ringed at Icklesham, Sussex, on the 12th.
	Elmley, another bird, 3rd September.
1996	Long Pits, Dungeness, single bird, 12th August.
	Dungeness Reserve, single bird, 21st August.
	Nagden, single bird trapped, 2nd September.
1999	Grove Ferry, single bird, 24th August.
	Swale NNR, single bird, 30th August.
	Grove Ferry, single bird, 31st August.
2000	Sandwich Bay, single bird trapped, 19th August.
2004	Waterham, near Seasalter, juvenile trapped and ringed, 2nd August.
2006	Sandwich Bay, single bird controlled in Belarus on 17th June, was trapped, 15th August.
	Seasalter, 17th-20th August.
2007	Nagden Marsh, trapped and photographed, 29th August.
No longer accepted
1963	Stoke Fleet, single bird, 18th August.
1964	Sevenoaks, single bird, 21st August.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird trapped, 25th August.
1998	Stodmarsh, single bird, 6th September.

Paddyfield Warbler

Blyth’s Reed Warbler

Booted Warbler

Eastern Olivaceous Warbler

Melodious Warbler

MELODIOUS WARBLER

Hippolais polyglotta

Rare but regular passage migrant

1959	Dungeness, one trapped, 2nd August.
1960	Dungeness, one trapped, 9th September.
1962	Dungeness, first winter, trapped, 8th August.
	Dungeness, another first winter, trapped, 26th September.
1963	Dungeness, first winter, trapped, 6th September.
1965	Dungeness, one trapped, 19th August.
	Dungeness, one trapped, 20th-22nd August.
	Dungeness, one trapped, 21st August.
	Dungeness, one trapped, 30th August.
	Sandwich Bay, one trapped, 7th September.
1966	Dungeness, one trapped, 27th-28th May. The first spring record for the county.
1968	Dungeness, single bird, 25th May.
	Warden, Sheppey, 1 possibly 2 birds, 4th September.
1972	Dungeness, one trapped, 23rd May.
	Dungeness, another trapped, 24th May.
1973	Sandwich Bay, one trapped, 30th July.
	Dungeness, one trapped, 4th August.
1976	Lydd, one seen well, 7th November.
1977	Dungeness, one trapped, 7th September.
1978	Dungeness, one trapped, 2nd June.
	Dungeness, one trapped, 16th June.
	Upstreet, single bird, 20th August.
	Margate, single bird, 20th August.
	Margate, single bird, 6th October.
1979	Sandwich Bay, one seen, 8th May.
	Sandwich Bay, one in song, 2nd June.
	Dungeness, one trapped, 4th September.
1980	Dungeness, one trapped, 31st May.
1981	Stodmarsh, one seen, 22nd May.
	Dungeness, one trapped, 2nd June.
	Chestnut Street, Sittingbourne, one in song, 10th June.
	Dungeness, adult trapped, 19th July.
	Dungeness, juvenile trapped, 28th July.
	Dungeness, another juvenile trapped, 29th July.
	Dungeness, one seen, 25th August.
1983	Cliffe, single bird, 10th September.
1984	Dungeness, juvenile trapped, 27th-28th August.
	Dungeness, juvenile trapped, 5th-7th September.
	Dungeness, one seen, 16th September.
	Dungeness, juvenile trapped, 18th September.
	Dungeness, two seen, 25th September.
	Dungeness, juvenile trapped, 27th September.
	Dungeness, one seen, 6th October.
1985	Foreness, one found, 23rd August.
1987	Dungeness, one trapped, 2nd May.
	Foreness, one found, 12th August.
1988	Dungeness, one trapped, 8th-10th May.
	Sandwich Bay, one trapped, 20th June.
	Dungeness, single bird, 22nd August.
	Dungeness, another single bird, 24th-29th August.
1989	Sandwich Bay, one trapped, 26th August.
	Dungeness, one trapped, 7th September.
1991	Sandwich Bay, one present, 23th August.
1993	St. Margaret’s, one in song, 24th May.
	Dungeness, one trapped, 29th May.
1994	Dungeness, single bird, 25th May.
	Margate Cemetery, singing male, 28th-30th May.
	Dungeness, single bird, 7th June.
	Dungeness, single bird, 4th August.
	Brenzett, single bird, 19th August.
1996	Dungeness, the arrival of seventeen birds, in groups of three, ten, three, and one, between 19^th and 22nd May, was a major surprise. Seven of these birds were trapped, with a singing male occupying territory from 20th -23rd.
	Foreness, one found, 21st May.
1997	Reculver, first year, trapped, 11th August.
	Dungeness, two first years, one Denge Gully and one at the point, trapped, 31st August.
	Dungeness, another bird, 2nd-8th September.
1998	Bockhill, one present, 29th-30th August.
2000	Dungeness, single bird, 13th May.
	St. Margaret’s, singing male, 29th May.
2001	Dungeness, single bird, 3rd September.
2002	Dungeness, one in private garden, 17th August.
2003	Reculver, one present, 27th-30th August.
2004	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 15th August.
2005	Dungeness, single bird, 29th July.
	Dungeness, single bird, 9th September.
2007	Dungeness, single bird, 20th June.
2008	Sandwich Bay BO, one trapped, 16th-19th September.
2009	Dungeness, single bird, 13th May.
2012	Dungeness, singing male, 1st May.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 14th September.
2014	Dengemarsh Gully, single bird, 27th-30th August.
2016	Dungeness BO, single bird, 6th August.
2017	Swalecliffe, single bird, 22nd May.
	Worth Marshes, single bird, 13th August.

Icterine Warbler

ICTERINE WARBLER

Hippolais icterina

Rare Vagrant

1848	Eythorne, near Dover, single bird shot, 15th June
1903	Kentish Knock, single bird, 22nd September.
1916	Dungeness, two birds, 12th September.
1952	Benenden, single bird, 6th August.
1954	Dungeness BO, single bird trapped, 2nd September.
1956	Dungeness BO, single bird trapped lighthouse garden, 2nd September.
1959	Dungeness, single bird trapped, 25th September.
1960	Dungeness, single bird trapped, 21^st May.
	Dungeness, single bird, 16th–18th September.
1961	Sandwich Bay BO, single bird trapped, 4th September.
1962	Sandwich Bay BO, single bird, 5th May.
	Sandwich Bay BO, single bird trapped, 22nd September.
1964	Sandwich Bay, single bird trapped, 14th August.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird trapped, 1st September.
	Dungeness, single bird trapped, 5th September.
	Dungeness, single bird trapped, 14th September.
1966	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 22nd August.
	Dungeness, single bird trapped, 26th August.
	Dungeness, single bird trapped, 17th September.
	Dungeness, single bird trapped, 18th September.
1967	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 9th September.
	Northward Hill, single bird, 8th October.
1968	Sandwich Bay BO, single bird, 8th August.
	Sandwich Bay BO, single bird, 11th August.
	Dungeness BO, single bird, 11th August.
	Sandwich Bay BO, two birds, 15th September.
	Dungeness BO, single bird, 19th September.
1970	Sandwich Bay BO, single bird trapped, 6th September.
	Dungeness BO, a single bird trapped was the observatories 100,000th ringed bird, 8th October.
1971	Dungeness, single bird, 28th May.
	Dungeness, single bird, 12th August.
	Sandwich Bay BO, two birds, 21^st August, with one remaining until the following day.
	Dungeness, single bird, 24th August.
	Sandwich Bay BO, two birds, one of which was trapped, 10th September.
1972	Shorne, single bird, 7th September.
	Sandwich Bay, first-year bird trapped, 11th September.
1973	Dungeness, single bird trapped, 26th May.
	Worth village, single bird seen, 16th August.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird trapped, 24th September.
1975	Dungeness, two birds trapped, 17th May.
	Whitstable, single bird seen and heard singing, 14th-17th June.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird trapped, 24th August.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird trapped, 25th August.
	Dungeness, single bird trapped, 2nd September.
	Dungeness, single bird trapped, 3rd September. This, or the previous days bird, remained in the area until 16th.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 22nd September.
1976	Northward Hill, single bird seen and heard, 21^st May.
	Dungeness, single bird, 1st September.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 30th September.
1977	Richborough Power Station, singing male, 22nd May, with possibly the same bird seen again at nearby Stonelees on 29th.
	Dungeness, two singles, 14th-19th August.
	Foreness Point, single bird, 17th August.
	Shellness, Sheppey, single bird, 20th-21st August.
	Dungeness, four birds, 20th August.
	Dungeness, two birds, 21st August.
	Sandwich Bay, one of two birds was trapped on 21st August, being retrapped on 26th. The second bird was trapped on 24th and never seen again.
	Dungeness, two birds, 23rd August.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird was trapped, 23rd August.
	Dungeness, one bird, 27th August.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 23rd September.
1978	Dungeness, single bird trapped, 27th May.
	St. Margaret’s, single bird, 19th September.
1979	In North, male singing, 8th-10th May.
	Upstreet, male singing, 1st July.
	Dungeness, single bird trapped on 20th August, remained until 25th.
	Dungeness, single bird, 1st September.
	Margate, single bird, 6th-7th September.
	Dungeness, single bird, 16th September.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird trapped, 23rd September.
	Dungeness, single bird, 23rd September.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 27th October.
1980	Sandwich Bay, bird in song, 14th May.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird trapped, 14th-15th June.
	Dungeness, single bird trapped, 21st September.
1981	Sandwich Bay, singing male, 2nd June.
	Dungeness, single bird trapped, 9th August.
	Dartford Marsh, single bird, 14th August.
	Dungeness, single bird trapped, 31st August.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird trapped, 28th August until 6th September.
	Foreness, single bird, 2nd-6th September.
	Sandwich Bay, second bird, 6th September.
1982	Dungeness, single bird trapped, 1st August.
	Margate, single bird, 1st August.
	Margate, two birds, 29th August
	Foreness, three birds, 1st-20th September.
	St. Margaret’s, single bird, 24th September.
	Near Sandwich, single bird, found dead 24th September
1983	Foreness, single bird, 6th May.
	Margate, single bird, 18th June.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 30th July.
	Stodmarsh, single bird, 14th August.
	Northdown Park, Margate, single bird, 27th August.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 30th August.
	Dungeness, single bird trapped, 30th August, remaining until 7th September.
	St. Margaret’s, single bird, 31st August.
	Dungeness, second bird trapped, 7th September.
	Margate, six individuals, 4th August until 24th September.
	Foreness, nine individuals, 9th August until 26th September.
1984	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 23rd May.
	Margate, single bird, 23rd May.
	Margate, two birds, 25th May.
	Dungeness, two birds, 27th-28th May.
	Dengemarsh, single bird, 28th May.
	Foreness, single bird, June 3rd.
	Lympne, single bird, 21st July.
	Dungeness, single bird, 11th August.
	Margate, single bird, 11th August.
	Margate, single bird, 18th August.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird trapped, 2nd September.
	Dungeness, single bird, 4th September.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 6th September.
	Foreness, single bird, 18th September.
	Margate, single bird, 21st-28th September.
	Dungeness, single bird, 28th September.
1985	Sandwich Bay, single bird trapped, 26th May.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 18th June.
	Dungeness, single bird, 17th August.
	Margate, single bird, 29th-30th August.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird trapped, 11th September remaining until 25th.
1986	Sandwich Bay, single bird trapped, 10th June.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird trapped, 12th August.
	Sandwich Bay, another bird trapped, 13th August.
1987	Foreness, single bird, 27th May.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 4th-5th August.
	Dungeness, single bird, 30th August.
	Foreness, single bird, 30th August.
	Foreness, another bird, 1st September.
	Warden Point, Sheppey, single bird, 1st September.
	Foreness, single bird, 23rd September.
1988	Foreness, single bird, 12th May.
	Dungeness, single bird, 13th May.
	Foreness, single bird, 24th May.
	Dungeness, single bird, 6th September.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 1st October.
1989	Sandwich Bay, single bird trapped, 9th August.
	Dungeness, two first-year birds, 2nd September.
	Sandwich Bay, one first-year bird, 3rd September.
	Foreness, one first-year bird, 5th September.
1990	Foreness, single bird, 30th May.
	Foreness, single bird, 27th August.
	Dungeness, single bird trapped, 28th August.
	Allhallows, single bird, 2nd September.
1991	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 31st May.
	Langdon, male in song, 6th July.
	Dungeness, single bird trapped, 26th August.
	Grain, single bird, 1st September.
	Warden Point, Sheppey, single bird, 2nd-3rd September.
1992	Stodmarsh, single bird, 18th August.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 20th August.
	Minnis Bay, single bird, 20th August.
	Shuart, single bird, 21st August.
	Grain, single bird, 26th September.
1993	Western Heights, Dover, single bird, 1st September.
	Minnis Bay, single bird, 6th September.
	Reculver, two birds, 14th September.
1994	Dungeness, single bird, 18th May.
	Dungeness, single bird, 25th May.
	Foreness, single bird, 2nd June.
	St. Peter’s, single bird, 22nd August.
	Bishopstone, single bird, 25th August.
	Dungeness, single bird, 7th September.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 14th September.
1995	Swalecliffe, single bird, 20th May.
	Foreness, single bird, 19th August.
	Foreness, another single bird, 23rd August.
1996	Gazen Salts, Sandwich, single bird, 6th September.
	Bockhill, single bird, 8th-10th September.
	North Foreland, single bird, 20th-21st September.
	North Foreland, a second bird, 21st September.
1997	Dungeness, single bird, 7th August.
	Bockhill, single bird, 10th August.
	Leysdown, Sheppey, single bird, 10th August.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 13th August.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird trapped, 6th September.
	Weirton Hill Farm, single bird, 14th September.
1999	Dungeness, singing male, 19th May.
	Sandwich Bay, three birds, 19th May.
	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 11th June.
	Dungeness, trapping area, second bird, 11th June.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 16th August.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 24th August.
	Grain, single bird, 29th August.
2003	Samphire Hoe, single bird, 28th August.
2004	Abbotscliffe, single bird, 15th August.
	Dungeness BO, single bird, 16th August.
2006	Dungeness BO, single bird, 25th May.
	Bockhill, one singing male, 29th May.
2008	Dungeness BO, single bird, 25th August.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 30th August.
	Warden Point, Sheppey, 1st-2nd September.
2009	Sandwich Bay, two birds, 13th May.
	Dungeness, male bird, 13th May.
	Dungeness, three individuals, 14th May.
2010	St. Margaret’s-at-Cliffe, single bird, 1st June.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 12th August.
	Dungeness BO, two individuals, 28th August.
2011	Sandwich Bay, adult female trapped, 27th July.
2013	Reculver, a male bird, 20th May.
	The Cellars, Sandwich, single bird, 25th May.
2014	Sandwich Bay, single bird trapped, 3rd September.
2015	Bishopstone, a singing male, 28th June to 1st July.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird trapped, 14th August.
	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 31st August to 1st September, with possibly same bird on 7th September.
2016	Sandwich Bay, single bird trapped, 25th August.
No Longer Accepted
1902	Crockham Hill, Edenbridge, single bird shot, 15th May.
1907	King’s Wood, Chilham, single bird, spring (no exact date).

Savi’s Warbler

SAVI’S WARBLER

Locustella luscinioides

Rare Summer Visitor

1960	Stodmarsh, three singing males, two pairs bred, 18th April to 3rd August.
1961	Stodmarsh, one or two singing males, but no evidence of breeding, 25^th Aprilto 1st July.
1962	Stodmarsh, two singing males, 18th May to 15th July.
1963	Stodmarsh, three singing males, but no proof of breeding, 15th April to 30th June.
1964	Stodmarsh, four singing males, two pairs bred, 15th April to 9th June.
1965	Stodmarsh, twelve males holding territory between 15th April and 12^th July, one trapped, 16th May.
1966	Stodmarsh, eight/nine males singing, 8th April to 8th July,evidence of two pairs nesting.
1967	Stodmarsh, four singing males, 15th April to July.
1968	Stodmarsh, 28th March to 28th July, three males in song.
1969	Stour Valley, three, perhaps five males, 19th April to 14th July.
	Locality withheld, male, all May.
	Locality in north, two or three, probably bred, 9th May and during June.
1971	Stodmarsh, 19th May to 17th July, a total of five singing males in May and June and at least one paired.
	Locality withheld, another singing male, summer.
1972	Stodmarsh, two, 27th April, up to six regularly heard subsequently and at least one pair bred.
1973	Stodmarsh, 20th April, up to three singing subsequently but no evidence of breeding success.
	Seasalter, 29th April.
1974	Stodmarsh, singing male, 6th April, another on 10th, and a third on 4th May; all three males held territory through the breeding season, one pair definitely bred and a second pair very probably bred.
	Locality in the north, 23rd June.
1975	Stodmarsh, male, 22nd April, and subsequently one pair which reared four young, and unmated male.
	Westbere, male, 26th April.
	Westbere, male, 4th May.
1976	Stodmarsh, singing male, 9th April, subsequently at least two singing, one pairbelieved to have bred successfully, one male believed to have remained unmated.
	Fordwich, male, 12th June; probably same, 6th July.
1977	Stodmarsh, 3rd April to 25th September; up to five pairs, two probably bred.
	Locality withheld, 24th April to 4th September, one pair bred.
1978	Stodmarsh and Middle Stour area, 22nd April onwards, maximum eight males, seven probably, and five definitely paired, three proved breeding.
1979	Stodmarsh and Middle Stour area, up to nine localities, 9th April to 22nd August, six territories held, at least four pairs attempted breeding, three successfully.
1980	Stodmarsh and Middle Stour area, 7th April to at least 4th June, probably five males, and at least two pairs breeding.
	Westbere, 11th May to 4th June.
1981	Stodmarsh and Middle Stour area, 29th March to 4th August, four occupied territories, three pairs, two bred successfully.
1982	Stour Valley, locality A, one or two males, 15th to 27th April, one 3rd July
	Stour Valley, locality B, male, 13th April, two from 15th, last heard 2nd July.
	Elmley, one heard, 16th May
1999	Walland Marsh, in song, 10th-13th May.
	Stodmarsh, in song, 16th and 18th May; possibly same, 8th July.
	Grove Ferry, in song, 1st June to 10th July.
2001	South Swale NNR, in song, 23rd May.
	Grove Ferry, in song, 23rd-26th May, one remaining until 24th July.
2002	Stour Valley, 2nd-6th June.
	Dungeness, 15th-20th June.
2004	Oare Marshes, singing male, 14th July.
	Grove Ferry, singing male, 17th July.
2005	Stour Valley, singing male, 15th-29th April.
2006	Stodmarsh, singing male, 25th April to 10th July, with additional singing male on 30th April.
2007	Oare Marshes, singing male, 18th-20th May.
2008	Sandwich Bay, 29th September.
2009	Stour Valley, singing male, 11th-27th April.
2011	Site withheld, up to 3 singing males, 25th May until 27th June.
2015	Stonelees LNR, singing male, 25th April.
	Stodmarsh, singing male, 4th May.
2016	Pegwell Bay, singing male, 25th April.
2017	Stodmarsh NNR, singing male, 28th May until 2nd June.

Zitting Cisticola

Barred Warbler

BARRED WARBLER

Curruca nisoria

Rare autumn vagrant

1907	Woodchurch, two adults shot, 24th April.
1951	Dungeness, single bird, 4th October.
1953	Sandwich Bay, one trapped, 25th September.
1957	Dungeness, juvenile trapped, 22nd August.
	Sandwich Bay, one trapped, 30th August.
1958	Shellness, Sheppey, single bird, 28th September.
1959	Dungeness, single bird trapped, 29th August.
1960	Dungeness, single bird trapped, 17thSeptember.
1962	Sandwich Bay, one trapped, 23rd September.
1964	Sandwich Bay, one trapped, 15th August.
	Sandwich Bay, one seen, 1st August.
1966	Dungeness, single bird, 30th August.
	Dungeness, single bird trapped, 18thSeptember.
	Worth, single bird, 25th September.
1967	Dungeness, single bird, 12th September.
	Sandwich Bay, one trapped, 7th September.
	Sandwich Bay, another trapped, 8th October.
1968	Dungeness, single bird, 8th September.
1969	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 5th September.
1971	Dungeness, single bird, 20th August.
	Kennington, Ashford, bird found dead, 13th November.
1972	Sandwich Bay, one trapped, 15th September.
	Dungeness, single bird, 26thSeptember.
1973	Dungeness, single bird, 29th August.
1974	Sandwich Bay, one trapped, 19th September.
	Sandwich Bay, another trapped, 5th October, may have been present since 3rd.
1976	St. Nicholas-at-Wade, immature seen well, 29th August.
	Minnis Bay S.F., immature seen well, 25th September.
1977	Dungeness, single bird trapped, was present 25th-27th September.
	Foreness Point, single bird, 29th August.
	Foreness Point, another bird present, 19th-20th September.
	Foreness Point, probably another bird, 24th September.
	Dungeness, single bird trapped, 25th September.
1979	Margate, single bird, 6th September.
	Dungeness, single bird on the unusually late dates of 4th-6th December.
1980	Foreness, single bird, 29th September.
1981	Sandwich Bay, one trapped, 6th September.
	Dungeness, single bird, 13th September.
1983	Sandwich Bay, one trapped, 11th August.
	Dungeness, single bird, 28th August.
	Sandwich Bay, one trapped, 6th September, and retrapped on the 8th.
1984	Hythe, first-winter, 30th September.
1986	Dungeness, single bird, 29th August.
	ARC Pit, Dungeness, single bird, 13thSeptember.
	Foreness, single bird, 13th-17th September.
	Dungeness, single bird, 16th September.
	Minnis Bay, single bird, 23rd September.
	Dungeness, single bird, 28th October.
1988	Hilborough, nr. Bishopstone, single bird, September 10th.
	St. Margaret’s, single bird, 1st October.
	Sandwich Bay, one trapped, 1st October.
	Dungeness, single bird, 25th October.
1989	Dungeness, single bird, 19th August.
	North Foreland, single bird, 13th-14th September.
	Dungeness, another single bird, 24thSeptember.
1990	Dungeness, juvenile bird, 17th September.
1991	Grain, single bird, 21st August.
	Warden, Sheppey, single bird, 14th September.
	Dungeness, single bird, 1st October.
1992	Harty, one died in collision with car, 9th August.
	Foreness, single bird, 21st September.
	St. Margaret’s, single bird, 19th September.
1993	Pegwell Bay, juvenile bird, 29th August.
	Bishopstone, juvenile bird, 1st October.
1994	Dungeness, single bird, 11th August.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 25th August.
	Minnis Bay, single bird, 11th September.
	Bishopstone, single bird, 14th-18th October.
1995	Grain Power Station, one trapped, 5th September.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 10th August.
	Sandwich Bay, another bird, 20th September.
1996	Dungeness, single bird, 19th August.
	Swalecliffe, single bird, 30th August.
	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 14th September.
	Elmley, one present, 27th September to 10th October.
	Hoo Peninsula, single bird, 23rd October.
1997	Dungeness Long Pits, single bird, 28th August.
1999	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 16th October.
2000	St. Margaret’s, one trapped, September. Later relocated at Bockhill until 14th October.
	Sandwich Bay, juvenile trapped, 14th October.
	Sandwich Bay, another trapped, 17th October.
	Kingsdown, single bird, 17th-19th December. An unusually late individual.
2001	St. Margaret’s, single bird, 23rd August.
	St. Margaret’s, another bird, 26th September.
2002	Bockhill, single bird, 1st September.
	Bockhill, another bird, 2nd-6th October.
2005	Palm Bay, Cliftonville, juvenile bird, 1st September.
	Oare, juvenile bird, 18th September.
2006	Bockhill, single bird, 23rd-30th August.
2007	Bockhill, single bird, 9th-8th September.
2008	Bockhill, single bird, 26th and 28th September.
2010	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 27th September to 4th October.
	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 2nd-8th October.
	Bockhill, single bird, 12th October.
2012	Dungeness BO, single bird, 29th September.
	Abbotscliffe, single bird, 9th October.
	Chambers Wall, single bird, 14th November.
2013	North Foreland, single bird, 27th August.
2014	Bockhill, single bird, 9th August.
	Dungeness BO, single bird, 11th September.
2015	Dungeness, single bird trapped and ringed, 23rd October.

Lesser Whitethroat

Asian Desert Warbler

Western Subalpine Warbler

Eastern Subalpine Warbler

Sardinian Warbler

Short-toed Treecreeper

Rose-coloured Starling

ROSE-COLOURED STARLING

Sturnus roseus

Rare Vagrant

pre-1844	Lydd, adult obtained, no date, now at Dover Museum.
1844	Margate area, two seen, one male shot, June.
1857	Frindsbury, nr. Rochester, shot, summer.
1863	Barming, male, shot, no date, now at Rochester Museum.
1888	Wingham, adult, shot, ‘some years prior to 1889’, now in Hammond collection, Canterbury.
	Godmersham, immature shot, mid-summer.
1889	Near Wingham, seen, January.
1891	Near Margate, shot, no date.
1906	Near Ham Street, early April.
1937	Dungeness, immature female, early June.
1951	Tunbridge Wells, adult, February.
1953	Tunbridge Wells, adult, 11th January.
1971	Sandwich, juvenile, 22nd-27th February.
	Sandwich, adult, 11th September.
	Rough Common, Canterbury, 20th November to 12th December.
1976	Northwood Hill, adult, 22nd May.
1990	Biddenden, first-summer, 12th-13th May.
	Foreness, juvenile, 10th September.
1994	Aylesford, first-winter, 22nd March until 21st April.
1996	Deal, juvenile, 16th-21st September.
1997	Dungeness, juvenile, 27th-29th September.
2002	Sandwich, adult, 11th-20th July.
2008	Reculver, juvenile, 18th September.
	Dungeness RSPB, adult, 18th October.
2010	Ramsgate, juvenile, 11th November.
2011	Dungeness, juvenile, 23rd September.
2012	Gillingham, adult, 3rd June.
	Samphire Hoe, juvenile, 20th September.
2013	Pegwell Bay, juvenile flew south, 2nd October.
2014	Borstal, adult, 28th-29th May.
2015	Langley Heath, juvenile, 7th-30th June.
2016	Dungeness BO, juvenile, 19th-20th September.
2017	Dungeness BO, single bird, 1st June.
2018	Bishopstone, adult male, 26th-27th May.
	Dungeness, adult male, 28th-29th May.
	Grove Ferry, adult, 29th May.
	St Margaret’s Bay, adult, 30th May.
	North Foreland, adult, 2nd June.
	Pegwell Bay, adult, 3rd-4th June.
	Rye Street, Cliffe, adult, 3rd June.
	Foreness, adult, 15th June.
No Longer Accepted
1900	Near Appledore, male, 4th June.
1901	Near Appledore, adult male, 14th May.
1902	Near Appledore, male, 10th June.
1925	Romney Marsh, male, 19th June.

Swainson’s Thrush

Black-throated Thrush

Dusky Thrush

Rufous-tailed Scrub Robin

Bluethroat

Luscinia svecica

Scarce spring and common autumn migrant

With over 100 records between 1842 and 1976, comprising more than 130 birds, this species would not normally be included in this list. However, as a species which causes great interest amongst birders, it is included here. Unless stated otherwise all records are of the nominate Red-spotted race (L. s. svecica), or of uncertain race. Selected records pre-1977, and all records since are included here –

1936	Dungeness, Oppen Pits, adult male, of the White-spotted race (L.s. cyanecula), 22nd September.
1942	Hothfield, nr. Ashford, one of the White-spotted race(L.s. cyanecula), 2nd February.
1959	West Malling, adult male, of the White-spotted race (L.s. cyanecula), 5th May.
1960	Dungeness, adult male, of the White-spotted race (L.s. cyanecula), trapped 16th September.
	Dungeness, juvenile, probably of the White-spotted race (L.s. cyanecula), 19th September.
1961	Sandwich Bay, adult male, of the White-spotted race (L.s. cyanecula), trapped 1st April.
1960	Dungeness, adult male, of the White-spotted race (L.s. cyanecula), trapped 26th September.
	Dungeness, adult male, of the White-spotted race (L. s. cyanecula), trapped 30th September.
1968	Dungeness, single bird of the White-spotted race (L. s. cyanecula), 15th April.
1972	Shellness, Sheppey, adult male, of the White-spotted race (L. s. cyanecula), in song 9th April.
1977	Sandwich Bay, immature male, trapped 19th September.
	Dungeness, one trapped, 25th-26th September, with second bird present on 26th.
1978	Foreness Point, single bird, 2nd October.
1980	Dungeness, male, of the White-spotted race (L. s. cyanecula), trapped 21st September.
	Pegwell Bay, male, 2nd October.
1981	Aycliffe, Dover, male, 16th March.
	Sandwich Bay, female, 17th May.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 29th August.
	Dungeness Pits, single bird, 13th September.
1984	Hadlow, male, 13th-14th May.
	Sandwich Bay, male, 21st May.
	Leysdown, single bird, 16th September.
1985	Foreness, single bird, 4th April.
	Sandwich Bay, one trapped, 15th May.
	Cliffe, single bird, 16th June.
	Sandwich Bay, one trapped, 21st October.
1986	Weald, Sevenoaks, male, 1st June.
	Foreness, single bird, 18th September.
1987	Foreness, single bird of the White-spotted race (L. s. cyanecula), 31st March.
	Foreness, single birds, 22nd and 24th May.
	Minnis Bay, single bird of the White-spotted race (L. s. cyanecula), 4th April.
	Dungeness, single bird, 26th May.
	Foreness, single bird, 26th August.
1988	Dover Docks, male, of the White-spotted race (L. s. cyanecula), trapped 23rd March.
	Foreness, single bird, 28th April.
1989	Dungeness, first year male, 12th September.
1991	Sandwich Bay, female, 2nd-5th May.
1992	Reculver, male, of the White-spotted race (L. s. cyanecula), trapped 29th March.
1994	Foreness, single bird, 18th-19th October.
1995	Kingsgate, Foreness, adult male, 22nd September.
1996	Bockhill, St. Margaret’s, single bird, 28th March.
	Sandwich Bay, single males, 6th and 11th April.
	Abbotscliffe, female, 13th-14th April.
	Foreness, male, 19th May.
	Chambers Wall, Reculver, female, 16th September.
1997	Hoo Peninsula, female, 13th May.
1998	Foreness, two, 28th May.
	Pegwell Bay, single bird, 28th May.
	Coldharbour, Reculver, single bird, 10th October.
1999	Stodmarsh, male, 29th May.
2001	Tennant’s Hill, Deal, single bird, 18th March.
	Swalecliffe, female, 27th March.
2002	Palmarsh, single bird probably of the White-spotted race (L. s. cyanecula), 17th March.
2006	Pegwell Bay, adult male, 26th March.
2007	Sandwich Bay, male, 21st October.
2008	Dungeness, male of White-spotted race, L. s. cyanecula, photographed, 8th April.
2010	Kingsdown, single bird, 1st October.
2011	South Swale LNR, single bird, 17th May.
	Oare Marshes, single bird, 21st May, presumed same bird as South Swale.
2013	Samphire Hoe, female, presumed white-spotted (L. s. cyanecula), 27th March until 6^th April.
	Bockhill, male white-spotted (L. s. cyanecula), 1st-6thApril.
	Dungeness, male, 17th May.
2014	Grove Ferry, single bird, 18th April.
2015	Nagden Marshes, male white-spotted (L. s. cyanecula), 13th April.
	Grove Ferry, male white-spotted (L. s. cyanecula), 30th May.
2016	Sandown, Deal, single bird, 25th August.
2018	Dengemarsh, two male white-spotted (L. s. cyanecula), 18th-25th March.

Thrush Nightingale

Red-flanked Bluetail

Collared Flycatcher

Red-breasted Flycatcher

RED-BREASTED FLYCATCHER

Ficedula parva

Scarce autumn migrant; very rare in spring

1943	Medhurst Row, nr. Bough Beech, single bird, 8th May.
1951	Brookland, single bird, 6th September.
	Herne Bay, pair seen on 11th September, with the female remaining until 13th.
1953	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 3rd October.
1954	Dungeness, adult female trapped, 24th October.
1958	Allhallows, male, 17th September.
1959	East Malling, male, 24th September.
	Shellness, Sheppey, female, 5th-6th October.
1960	Sandwich bay, trapped, 1st October.
	Dungeness, trapped, 19th-22nd October.
	Dungeness, another trapped, 21st-23rd October.
1962	Sandwich Bay, two, one trapped, 4th October.
	Dungeness, first-winter trapped, 8th October.
1963	Dungeness, trapped, 24th October.
	Sandwich bay, trapped, 26th October.
1964	Dungeness, first-winter trapped, 7th October.
1965	Dungeness, single bird, 4th September.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 16th September.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 1st October.
1966	Sandwich bay, trapped, 13th October.
1967	Dungeness, single bird, 12th October.
1968	Trottiscliffe, two, including adult male, 22nd August.
	Dungeness, immature, 10th-12th September.
	Dungeness, another immature, 1st November.
1969	Dungeness, trapped, 12th-15th October.
1970	Dungeness, female trapped, 19th May.
	Sandwich Bay, adult male, 3rd October.
	Sandwich Bay, immature trapped, 10th-11th October.
	Sandwich Bay, another immature, 15th October.
1971	Dungeness, trapped, 3rd and 6th September.
	Broadstairs, single bird, 29th October.
1972	Ramsgate Cemetery, single bird, 6th September.
	Shellness, Sheppey, single bird, 1st October.
	Shellness, Sheppey, another bird, 14th October.
1973	Sandwich Bay, female, 11th and 14th May, probably refer to same bird.
	Seasalter, immature, 7th September.
	Grain, immature, 13th October.
1974	French Street, Westerham, single bird on the unusual date of 18th July.
	Dungeness, single bird, 17th September.
	Sandwich Bay, trapped, 4th October.
	Dungeness, trapped, 17th October.
1975	Sandwich Bay, May, 17th May.
	Aycliffe, male, 29th August.
	Sandwich Bay, singles daily 9th-12th October, with a minimum of three birds present, one being trapped on 9th.
1976	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 26th August.
	Dungeness, first-year trapped, 27th September.
	Dungeness, a second first-year trapped, 3rd-4th October.
	Dungeness, a third first-year trapped, 5th-7th October.
1977	St. Margaret’s, single bird, 6th-7th October.
1978	Dungeness, female trapped, 27th May.
	Sandwich Bay, immature trapped, 7th October.
	Dungeness, a third first-year trapped, 5th-7th October.
1979	Sandwich Bay, trapped, 27th October.
	St. Margaret’s, single bird, 27th-28th October.
1980	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 1st October.
	Shellness, single bird, 11th-12th October.
1981	Ramsgate, single bird, 4th November.
1982	St. Margaret’s, single bird, 24th October.
1983	Sandwich Bay, male, 18th May.
	Dungeness, juvenile trapped, 24th-25th September.
	St. Margaret’s, two, probably three, 2nd October.
1984	Foreness, male trapped, 20th-22nd May.
	Dungeness, first-year trapped, 25th September.
	Sandwich Bay, first-year, 4th October, with another on 6th.
	Foreness, single bird, 6th-7th October, with two others on 12th and 14th.
	Ramsgate, single bird, 6th-10th October.
1985	Ramsgate Cemetery, single bird, 15th October.
	Foreness, single bird, 16th-17th October.
	Dungeness, trapped, 16th-19th October.
	Sandwich Bay, trapped, 28th October.
1986	Foreness, single bird, 26th September, with another on 28th.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 26th September.
	St. Margaret’s, single bird, 26th-28th September.
	Foreness, single bird, 4th October.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 12th October.
1987	Warden Point, Sheppey, probably a first-summer male, 17th August.
	Warden Point, Sheppey, immature or female, 1st September.
	Foreness, up to four birds in the area, 30th September.
1988	Ramsgate Cemetery, single bird, 17th September.
	Dungeness, single bird, 17th September.
	Bishopstone, single bird, 18th September.
1989	Sandwich Bay, first-spring male, 29th May.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 28th September.
	Kingsgate, Thanet, single bird, 3rd October.
1991	Bishopstone, single bird, 29th September.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 11th October.
1992	Sandwich Bay, single birds, 20th September, and 2nd October.
	Minnis Bay, single bird, 3rd October.
	Port Regis, Kingsgate, single bird, 8th-9th October.
1993	Bishopstone, single bird, 18th October.
	Minnis Bay, single bird, 18th October.
	St. Margaret’s, two birds, occasionally seen together, 27th-31st October.
1994	Warden point, adult male, 21st-22nd September.
	St. Margaret’s, single bird, 2nd November.
1995	Dungeness, first-year male in song, trapped, 2nd June.
	Minnis Bay, male, 19th-22nd September.
	Foreness, three birds, 31st October, one remaining until 1st November.
1996	Foreness, single bird, 25th August.
	Shuart, Minnis Bay, single bird, 19th-20th September.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 23rd-24th September.
	Chambers Wall, Reculver, adult male, 19th-23rd September.
1997	Warden Point, Sheppey, single bird, 22nd-24th October.
	Minster, Sheppey, single bird, 24th October.
1998	Warden Point, Sheppey, single birds on 23rd September and 9th October.
1999	Bockhill, two birds, 13th-14th October.
	Dungeness, single bird, 15th October.
	Bishopstone, single bird, 19th-20th October.
2001	Dungeness, single bird trapped, 5th October.
2004	Bockhill, single bird, 26th September.
	St. Margaret’s, single bird, 10th October.
	Foreness, single bird, 11th October.
2005	Kingsgate, Thanet, single bird, 6th October.
2008	Dungeness, single bird, 25th May.
	Dungeness, single bird, 26th-27th October.
2009	Dungeness, single bird, 15th September.
	Dungeness, single bird, 13th October.
2012	Dungeness, single bird, 29th May.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird trapped and ringed, 20th October.
2013	Reculver, first winter, 29th September.
	Nether Hale Farm, first winter, 9th October.
	Dungeness BO, first winter, 15th October.
2014	Reculver, single bird, 11th September.
2015	Samphire Hoe, single bird, 20th October.
2018	Shellness, single bird, 7th October.

Black Redstart

Rock Thrush

Siberian Stonechat

Isabelline Wheatear

Desert Wheatear

Western Black-eared Wheatear

Pied Wheatear

Dipper

Dipper (Black-bellied)

Cinclus cinclus

Rare Vagrant

c.1845	Dover, shot, no specific date. Now in Dover Museum.
1849-50	Dover, shot, winter, no specific date.
1870	River, nr. Dover, no date recorded.
1885	Mereworth, observed, February.
1890	Margate, shot, year-end, no specific date.
1894	Benenden, observed, 4th November.
1906	Sandwich, shot, no date recorded.
1906-07	Bushey Roughs, nr. Dover, exact numbers and dates during this period not recorded.
1944	River Stour, Wickhambreaux/Littlebourne, single bird, 24th-30th December.
1955	Royal Military Canal, Hythe, nominate Black-bellied race C. c. cinclus, 22nd February to 3rd March.
	Sandwich, nominate Black-bellied race C. c. cinclus, 20th November to 6^th December.
1965	Mote Park, Maidstone, first-winter, nominate Black-bellied race C. c. cinclus, trapped 28th November.
	Loose, 6th December, likely to be same as previous bird.
1966	Loose Valley, Maidstone, bore a ring, 9th January and 21st March. Almost certainly the bird trapped at Mote Park in 1965.
1974	Sandling Park, nominate Black-bellied race C. c. cinclus, 20th January.
1975	Loose Valley, Maidstone, nominate Black-bellied race C. c. cinclus, 25th January. Again River Len between Leeds and Maidstone, 20th February. Trapped and ringed Leeds Castle Estate 12th March.
1976	Sandwich, nominate Black-bellied race C. c. cinclus, flew in off sea, 31st October. Presumably same bird Worth marshes on 2nd November and 24th December.
	Loose Valley, Maidstone, nominate Black-bellied race C. c. cinclus, 16th November to end of year.
1977	Loose Valley, Maidstone, nominate Black-bellied race C. c. cinclus, from previous year until 22nd February.
1982	Otford, race undetermined, 11th-20th January.
1988	River Stour, Chilham, nominate Black-bellied race C. c. cinclus, 19th-21st March.
	Loose stream, nominate Black-bellied race C. c. cinclus, 22nd-24th March.
1989	Brockhill Park, Hythe, race undetermined, 11th-20th January.
1993	River Stour, Sandwich, race undetermined, 2nd November.
1994	Kearnsey, nr. Dover, nominate Black-bellied race C. c. cinclus, 1st January to mid-February, and again on 19th March.
	River Stour, Chilham, nominate Black-bellied race C. c. cinclus, 12th March.
1999	Herne Bay, race undetermined, 22nd December.
2004	Furnace Pond, near Cowden, race undetermined, 23rd April.
2018	Hollingbourne, nominate Black-bellied race C. c. cinclus, 2nd and 4th December.

Alpine Accentor

Yellow Wagtail

GREY-HEADED WAGTAIL
Motacilla flava thunbergi
Uncommon Vagrant. It should be noted that none of the following Yellow Wagtail sub-species type records have formally been accepted by either the KOSRP or BBRC, and appear here only for general interest

1889	Dover, sub-species type, killed, end of April.
1906	Romney Marsh, pair bred, adults shot and eggs taken, 20th June.
1961	Grove, sub-species type, 23rd April.
1965	Sandwich Bay, sub-species type, 15th May, and again 30th May.
1971	Broadstairs, sub-species type, 5th May.
	Chetney, sub-species type, 22nd May.
	Dungeness Reserve, sub-species type, 29th May.
1974	Cooling, sub-species type, male, 10th May.
1975	Sandwich Bay, sub-species type, 12th May.
1977	Sevenoaks, sub-species type, male, 29th April.
	Sevenoaks, sub-species type, two females, 10th May.
	Sandwich Bay, sub-species type, male, 28th May.
1980	Stodmarsh, sub-species type, male, 11th May.
1981	Sandwich Bay, sub-species type, male, 9th May.
	Motney Hill, sub-species type, male, 12th-15th May.
1984	Foreness, sub-species type, male, 17th May.
	Foreness, sub-species type, three, 18th May.
1985	Egypt Bay, sub-species type, 5th-6th May.
	Elmley, sub-species type, 14th May.
	Reculver, sub-species type, 18th May.
1987	Foreness/Minnis Bay, sub-species type, four dates between 25th April and 23rd May.
1988	Reculver, sub-species type, male, 2nd and 7th May.
	North Foreland, sub-species type, male, 12th May.
	Foreness, sub-species type, male, 15th May.
1989	Reculver, sub-species type, 9th May.
	Foreness, sub-species type, 19th May.
1990	Walmer, sub-species type, male, 1st June.
1992	Foreness, sub-species type, 20th May.
	Swale NNR, sub-species type, 24th May.
1993	Dungeness, sub-species type, male, 8th May.
1994	Foreness, sub-species type, singles, 21st and 27th May.
1995	Sandwich Bay, sub-species type, 18th May.
1996	Allhallows, sub-species type, 10th June.
2001	Hawthorn Corner, Walland Marsh, sub-species type, 10th May.
2002	Sandwich Bay BO, sub-species type, 21st April.
2006	Dengemarsh, sub-species type, male, 2nd May.
2009	Grove Ferry, two birds, sub-species type, 13th May. One remained until 15th.
2011	Reculver, sub-species type, 7th May.

ASHY-HEADED WAGTAIL Motacilla flava cinereocapilla
Rare Vagrant. It should be noted that none of the following Yellow Wagtail sub-species type records have formally been accepted by either the KOSRP or BBRC, and appear here only for general interest

1973	Bough Beech, sub-species type, 5th May.
1986	Oare Marshes, sub-species type, male, 26th April.
1991	Sandwich Bay, sub-species type, 31st May.
1998	Elmley, male showing characteristics between Ashy-headed/Spanish, present between 25th May and 30th June.

SYKES WAGTAIL Motacilla flava beema
Rare Vagrant. It should be noted that none of the following Yellow Wagtail sub-species type records have formally been accepted by either the KOSRP or BBRC, and appear here only for general interest

1970	Sandwich Bay, sub-species type, 20th-22nd May.
1973	Sandwich Bay, sub-species type, male, 13th May.
1977	Chartham, sub-species type male bred with nominate female.
1990	Sandwich Bay, sub-species type, two birds, 15th April.
	East Sheppey, sub-species type, 8th May and 11th-20th May.
1991	Murston, sub-species type, 27th May.
1992	Swale NNR, sub-species type, 25th May.
1993	Kingsnorth, sub-species type, 13th April.
	Stodmarsh, sub-species type, 21st April.
	Northward Hill, sub-species type, 16th May.

SPANISH WAGTAIL Motacilla flava iberiae
Extremely Rare Vagrant. It should be noted that none of the following Yellow Wagtail sub-species type records have formally been accepted by either the KOSRP or BBRC, and appear here only for general interest

1977	Sevenoaks, sub-species type, male, 21st April.
1986	Boughton Park, sub-species type, male, 7th May.
1998	Elmley, male showing characteristics between Spanish/Ashy-headed, present between 25th May and 30th June.

BLACK-HEADED WAGTAIL Motacilla flava feldegg
Extremely Rare Vagrant. It should be noted that none of the following Yellow Wagtail sub-species type records have formally been accepted by either the KOSRP or BBRC, and appear here only for general interest

No Longer Accepted
1908	Romney Marsh, sub-species type, adult male, shot, 3rd June.

YELLOW-HEADED WAGTAIL Motacilla flava lutea

Extremely Rare Vagrant. It should be noted that none of the following Yellow Wagtail sub-species type records have formally been accepted by either the KOSRP or BBRC, and appear here only for general interest

1977	Minster, sub-species type, 27th May.

Citrine Wagtail

Richard’s Pipit

RICHARD’S PIPIT

Anthus richardi

Rare Passage Migrant

1868	Dover, single bird, 21st October.
1889	Dover, single bird, mid-November.
1890	Dover, single bird, 21st October.
1903	East Kent, bird killed against lantern of the Kentish Knock Lightship, 25th September.
1946	Sandwich, single bird, 27th September.
1950	Shellness, single bird, 23rd April.
1960	Allhallows, single bird, 23rd April.
1961	Halstow Marshes, single bird, 3rd January.
1963	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 29th September.
1967	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 30th October.
1968	Dungeness BO, single bird, 15th September.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 6th October.
	Cliffe Marshes, single bird, 14th-16th November.
1969	Foreness, single bird, 18th-19th September.
1970	Windmill Creek, Sheppey, single bird, 4th November.
	Dungeness, single bird, 15th November.
1971	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 8th May.
1972	Swanscombe Marsh, single bird, 15th April.
1976	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 3rd October.
1978	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 6th May.
	Foreness, single bird, 11th-17th December.
1979	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 18th November.
1981	Ramsgate, single bird, 21st-23rd October.
1982	Foreness, single bird, 20th September.
	Foreness, three birds, 22nd October.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 23rd October.
	Foreness, single bird, 25th October. Possibly one of previous, but counted as separate.
1983	Foreness, five birds, including four off sea, 30th September.
	Foreness, single bird, 1st October.
	Foreness, two birds, 3rd October.
	Foreness, two birds, 21st October.
1984	Margate, single bird, 17th May.
	North Foreland, single bird, 8th-11th October.
	Foreness, single bird, 9th October.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 9th October.
	Foreness, single bird, 11th October.
1985	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 22nd October.
1986	St. Margaret’s, single bird, 27th September.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 2nd October.
1987	Foreness, single bird, 16th September.
	Kingsnorth (Medway), two birds, 21st-28th September.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 2nd October.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 7th October.
	Foreness, single bird, 25th October.
	Foreness, single bird, 28th-31st October.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 12th-31st December.
1988	Dungeness, single bird, 10th September.
	Dartford Marshes, single bird, 29th September.
	North Foreland, single bird, 16th-17th October.
	Whiteness, nr. Foreness, single bird, 5th November.
	Foreness, single bird, 24th-26th November.
1989	Minnis Bay, single bird, 4th October.
	Foreness, single bird, 17th October.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 22nd October.
1990	Church Hougham, Dover, single bird, 22nd September.
	Swalecliffe, single bird, 22nd September.
	North Foreland, single bird, 23rd-29th October.
1991	Elmley RSPB Reserve, single bird, 9th May.
	Herne Bay, single bird, 10th May.
	Foreness, single bird, 13th October.
	Abbotscliffe, two birds, 21st October, with one bird remaining until 22nd.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 10th-11th November.
	Pegwell Bay, single bird, 14th November.
1992	Reculver, single bird, 27th September.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 29th September to 1st October.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 30th September to 1st October.
	Foreness, single bird, 3rd October.
	Foreness, single bird, 13th October.
	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 31st October until 6th November.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 8th November.
1993	Foreness, single bird, 30th September.
	St. Margaret’s, single bird, 11th November.
	Reculver, two birds just east of Towers, behind sea wall, 16th September.
1994	Higham Bight, single bird, 27th-29th September.
	Abbotscliffe, two birds, 1st October.
	Abbotscliffe, single bird, 24th October.
	Cliffe Pools, single bird, 29th-31st October.
	Reculver, single bird, 5th-8th November.
1995	Minnis Bay, single bird, 7th May.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 10th-13th May.
	Bockhill, single bird, 17th September.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 22nd-23rd September.
	St. Margaret’s, single bird, 25th September.
	Shellness, single bird, 1st-8th October.
	Ash Levels, Lower Stour, single bird, 26th October.
	Grain Marshes, single bird, 29th October.
1996	Swalecliffe, single bird, 25th September.
	Bockhill, single bird, flew south-west, 17th September.
1997	St. Margaret’s, single bird, flew in off sea, 5th May.
1998	Pegwell Bay, single bird, 18th October.
1999	Elmley RSPB, single bird, 13th October.
	Bockhill, single bird, 14th-15th November.
	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 16th November.
2000	Bockhill, single bird, 23rd April.
	Dungeness Bird Observatory, single bird, 14th October.
	Swalecliffe, single bird briefly, before flying off north, 13th November.
2001	Foreness, three birds, 26th September, with two remaining until 28th, and one until 29th.
2002	Abbotscliffe, single bird, flew east, 4th October.
2003	Abbotscliffe, single bird, 19th October.
2004	Dungeness Bird Observatory, single bird, 3rd October.
	Foreness, single bird, 11th October.
	Kingsdown, single bird, 11th October.
	Kingsdown, two birds, 12th-15th October.
	Abbotscliffe, single bird, 15th-16th October, with a second bird on the 17th.
	Pegwell Bay, single bird, 3rd December.
2005	Abbotscliffe, single bird, 3rd October.
	Kingsgate, single bird flew through, 5th October.
	Kingsgate, single bird, 6th-8th October, different to the bird of the 5th.
	Pegwell Bay, single bird, 6th October.
	St. Margaret’s, single bird, 13th October.
	Dungeness Bird Observatory, single bird, 15th October.
	Kingsgate, single bird, 18th October.
	Capel Fleet, single bird, 10th December.
2007	Bockhill, single bird, 22nd October.
	Cliffe Fort, single bird, 11th November.
2008	Abbotscliffe, single bird, 9th October.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, present early morning, 2nd December.
2009	Bockhill, single bird flew SW, 27th October.
2010	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 19th October.
2011	Abbotscliffe, single bird, 17th October.
	Egypt Bay, High Halstow, 1st November.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 23rd November.
2012	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 29th September. It or another was heard on 4th October.
	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 24th October.
	Swalecliffe, single bird, also 24th October.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 29th October, and again on 2nd and 8thNovember.
2013	Bockhill, single bird, 11th-18th October.
	Bough Beech, single bird, 22nd October.
	Coldharbour Lagoon, Reculver, single bird, 6th November.
	Egypt Bay, single bird, 16th-17th November.
2014	Shellness, single bird, 9th November.
2015	Shellness, the bird first seen in November 2014 remained until 1st April.
	Shellness, presumably the same bird returned for the second winter period from 8th November into 2016.
2016	Shellness, the bird first seen in November 2015 remained until 2nd April.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 12th October.
2018	Sandwich Bay, single bird flew north, 24th October.

Blyth’s Pipit

Tawny Pipit

TAWNY PIPIT

Anthus campestris

Rare Vagrant

1896	Near Lydd, single bird collected, 2nd August.
1919	Near Lydd, single bird, 28th May.
1950	The Midrips, single bird, 30th September.
1956	Dungeness, single bird, 9th September.
	Egypt Bay, single bird, 21st September.
	Warden Point, Sheppey, single bird, 21st October.
1960	Reculver, single bird, 24th September.
1961	Dungeness, single bird, 1st September.
	Dungeness, another single bird, 2nd September.
	Dungeness, another single bird, 16th September.
1962	Dungeness, single bird, 25th April.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 6th September.
	Dungeness, adult bird, 27th-30th September.
	Dungeness, immature bird, 28th-30th September.
1965	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 17th April.
1966	Oppen Pits, Dungeness, single bird, 3rd October.
1967	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 28th August.
	Dungeness, three birds, 28th August, with two remaining until the following day.
	Midrips/Wicks, adult bird, 2nd September.
	Windmill Creek, single bird, 3rd September.
	Dungeness, single bird, 18th-19th September.
1968	Midrips/Wicks, single bird, 4th September.
1969	Cliffe, single bird, 30th May.
	Dungeness, single bird, 13th September.
1970	The Brooks, single bird, 12th September.
	Dungeness area, two birds, 20th September.
1971	Reculver, single bird, 2nd May.
	Dungeness, single bird seen on 5th and 8th May.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 9th May.
	Birchington, single bird, 18th May.
	Dungeness, two birds, 22nd August.
	Shellness, Sheppey, single bird, 28th-29th August.
	Dungeness, two birds, 30th August, with one remaining until the following day.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 5th September.
	Dungeness, single bird, 26th September.
1972	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 8th May.
	Dungeness, single bird, 3rd September.
	Dungeness, single bird, 8th-10th September.
	Dungeness, single bird, 24th September.
	Reculver, single bird, 1st October.
	Shellness, Sheppey, single bird, 6th-7th October.
1973	Stodmarsh, single bird, 6th-7th May.
1974	Dungeness, single bird, 29th August.
	Dungeness, two, possibly three birds, 12th September.
1976	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 16th May.
	Dungeness, single bird, 16th September.
	Bough Beech, single bird, 4th-6th November.
1977	Minnis Bay, immature bird, 17th October.
1978	Richborough, single bird, 16th August.
	St. Margaret’s, single bird, 2nd September.
	Dungeness, single bird, 6th-11th September, and again on 14th.
1979	St. Margaret’s Bay, single bird, 21st April.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 27th May.
	St. Margaret’s Bay, single bird, 9th September.
	Reculver, single bird, 16th September.
	Foreness, single bird, 28th September.
1980	Cliffe, single bird, 31st August.
	St. Margaret’s, single bird, 7th September.
	Dungeness, single bird, 21st September.
1981	Dungeness Pits, single bird, 13th September.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 19th September.
	Dungeness, three birds trapped, 27th-28th September.
	Dungeness Pits, single bird, 31st August.
1982	Foreness, single bird, 3rd May.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 30th May.
	Cliffsend, single bird, 11th September.
1983	Foreness, single bird, 28th April.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 22nd September.
	Dungeness, single bird, 23rd September.
	Foreness, single bird, 28th September.
1984	Foreness, single bird, 18th May.
1985	Dungeness, single bird, 30th-31st August.
	St. Margaret’s, single bird, 20th-23rd September.
1986	Foreness, single bird, 1st May.
	Joss Bay, single bird, 28th May.
	Dungeness, single bird, 20th August.
	Shellness, Sheppey, single bird, 31st August.
	Dungeness, three birds, 13th-14th September, with two remaining until 16th.
1987	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 7th May.
	Bishopstone, single bird, 15th September.
	Dungeness, two birds, 16th September.
	Foreness, single bird, 4th October.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 18th October.
1988	Minnis Bay, single bird, 3rd May.
	Foreness, single bird, 5th May.
	Dungeness, single bird, 6th September.
	Reculver, single bird, 10th September.
	Pegwell Bay, single bird, 26th-29th September.
	Dungeness, single bird, 1st October.
	Elmley, single bird, 1st October, and probably the same bird from 21st-23rd.
1989	Dungeness, single bird, 13th September.
1990	Reculver, single bird, 28th April.
	North Foreland, single bird, 6th May.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 7th May.
	St. Margaret’s, single bird, 29th July.
	Bishopstone, single bird, 9th September.
1991	Warden Point, Sheppey, single bird, 12th May.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 15th-18th September, with possibly the same bird again on 29th.
1992	Foreness, single bird, 20th April.
	Pegwell Bay, single bird, 10th May.
	Dengemarsh, single bird, 3rd September.
	Dungeness, three birds, 4th September.
	Minnis Bay, single bird, 12th September.
	Abbotscliffe, single bird, 13th September.
	Kingsnorth (North), single bird, 28th September.
	Sandwich Bay, two birds, 29th September.
1993	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 19th April.
	St. Margaret’s, two birds, 15th September, one remaining until 16th.
	Reculver, single bird, 30th September until 2nd October.
	Dengemarsh, single bird, 10th October.
1994	Foreness, single bird, 14th-17th September.
1995	Northward Hill, single bird flew west and was later relocated at Cliffe, 28th April.
	Hoo Peninsula, single bird, 26th August.
	Abbotscliffe, single bird in off sea, 16th September, later found dead.
1996	Sandwich Bay, one adult bird, 23rd-28th August.
	Sandwich Bay, juvenile joined adult of previous day, 24th-28th August.
1997	North Foreland, single bird, 29th September.
1998	Hope Point, Bockhill, single bird, 10th October.
1999	Hope Point, Bockhill, single bird, 11th September.
2000	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 27th April.
2001	Swalecliffe, single bird, 30th September.
2002	Dungeness BO, single bird, 7th-8th September.
2005	Dungeness BO, one juvenile, 23rd August.
	Bockhill, single bird, 10th September.
2008	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 22nd September.
2009	Sandwich Bay, a single bird flew North, 19th September.
2014	Hope Point, Bockhill, single bird, 30th-31st August.
2016	Dungeness, first-year bird, 11th September.
No longer accepted
1959	Dungeness, single bird, 2nd May.

Olive-backed Pipit

Red-throated Pipit

Pine Grosbeak

Trumpeter Finch

Common Rosefinch

Arctic Redpoll

Parrot Crossbill

Two-barred Crossbill

Pine Bunting

Rock Bunting

Ortolan Bunting

ORTOLAN BUNTING

Emberiza hortulana

Rare Vagrant

1866	Cobham, single bird, 10th April.
1874	Dover, single bird shot, 14th December. Now in the Prentis Collection.
1946	Fairfield, Walland Marsh, male bird, 10th May.
1954	Dungeness, adult female or immature male, 3rd October.
1955	Sandwich Bay, first winter male, 6th September.
1956	Dungeness, three birds total, two trapped, 2nd September.
1957	Dungeness, single bird trapped, 25th September.
	Dungeness, single bird, seen and heard, 30th October.
1959	Lower Hope Pools, single bird, 26th October.
1961	Dungeness BO, first-winter bird, trapped, 16th September.
1962	Dungeness, immature bird, 4th October.
1963	Sandwich, single bird, 13th-14th September.
1964	Dungeness, first-winter bird, 3rd-4th September.
1965	Dungeness, immature bird, 25th September.
1968	Dungeness, single bird, 15th September.
	Dungeness, single bird, 5th October.
1972	Reculver, two males, 1st May.
1974	Dungeness, two males, 10th May.
	Dungeness, single bird, 12th September.
	Dungeness, single bird, 16th September
	Herne, single bird, 9th November.
1975	Dungeness, female, 16th May.
	Dungeness, male and female, 19th May.
	Sandwich Bay, two birds, 26th-28th May.
	Sandwich Bay, two additional birds 28th May.
1977	Dungeness, male trapped, 30th August.
	Dungeness, single bird, 31st August.
1978	Dungeness, one of two males present was trapped, 3rd May.
1979	Dungeness, adult bird, 30th September.
1980	Dungeness, two males and two females, 5th May.
	Dungeness, a further male and female, 8th May.
	Sandwich Bay, two birds, 24th September.
1981	St. Margaret’s, single bird, 29th August.
1983	Dungeness, one male, 6th May.
1984	Dungeness RSPB, first-summer male, 22nd April.
1985	North Foreland, one male, 6th May.
	Minnis Bay, one female, 10th September.
	Margate, one female and an immature, 23rd October.
1986	Dungeness, two males, 4th-5th May.
1987	Foreness, one female, 9th May.
	Foreness, one male, 16th May.
	Bishopstone, one immature, 30th August.
	Lydd, one first-winter, 4th October.
	Foreness, one first-winter, 10th November.
1988	Minnis Bay, single bird, 9th September.
	Dungeness, single bird, 23rd October.
1989	Foreness, single bird, 9th May.
	Dungeness, single bird, 2nd September.
1990	Reculver, single bird, 16th September.
	St. Margaret’s, single bird, 31st October.
1991	Weirton Hill Farm, a single bird, 26th August.
	Dungeness, single bird, 9th September
1992	St. Margaret’s, first-winter bird, 19th September.
1993	Foreness, female bird, 12th-16th May.
	Langdon, single bird, 12th September.
	Dungeness, single bird, 30th September.
1994	Monkton NR, single bird, 18th September.
1995	Bockhill, single bird, 13th September.
	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 16th September.
	St. Margaret’s, single bird, 17th-21st September.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 25th September.
1996	St. Margaret’s, one adult male, 22nd April.
	North Foreland, one adult male, 23rd April.
	Dungeness, single bird, 15th September.
	Abbotscliffe, single bird, 15th September, being relocated at Capel-le-Ferne on 21st.
	St. Margaret’s, single bird, 20th September.
	St. Margaret’s, single bird, 23rd September.
1997	Minnis Bay/Reculver, single bird, 7th September.
1998	Dungeness BO, single bird, 27th August.
1999	Bockhill, single bird, present 29th-30th August.
	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 4th-11th September.
	Bockhill, single bird, 12th September.
	St Margaret’s Bay, single bird, 12th September
2000	Reculver, one juvenile, 27th August.
2001	North Foreland, one juvenile bird, 15th August.
2002	Dungeness BO, single bird, 9th September.
2003	Bockhill, single bird, 6th September.
2005	North Foreland, one male bird, 26th May.
2012	Dungeness, single bird, 30th April.
2014	Reculver, single bird, 28th August.
2015	Dungeness, single bird, 10th September.
2018	Sandwich, nocturnal movements of this species were monitored by nocmig audio recordings on the night of 28th-29th August, with a minimum of six birds being involved. All recordings were independently verified.
	Worth Marsh, single bird, 13th September.
	Pegwell Bay, single bird flew North, 13th September.
	Dungeness BO, single bird, 14th September.
2019	Stonar Lake, a nocmig audio recording of a bird was taken, and later verified, at 02:30am on 27th August.

Cirl Bunting

CIRL BUNTING

Emberiza cirlus

Formerly local breeding species, now rare vagrant

1886	Nest found, and frequently heard, near Iwade, no dates.
1911	Nest found, west of Cliffe, June.
	Nest found, east of Cooling, June.
1916	Seen between Folkestone and Dover, 7th April.
1931	Nest with eggs, Sutton Valence, 24th May.
1935	Nesting pair, Biggin Hill, 26th July.
1936	Two birds, Halstow Marshes, 22nd November.
1943	Found nesting, Charing, no date.
1945	Pair, Sundridge Park, near Chislehurst, May.
	Single male, Denge Marsh, near Lydd, 21st August.
1947	Pair nested, between Bredhurst and Hempstead, no date.
	Several birds, near Wye, 19th January.
1949	Two males and a female, in mixed finch flock, Dartford Marshes, 4th December.
1950	Two males and two presumed females, Trenley Park Woods, 5th April.
1951	Nesting pair, near Plaxtol, no dates.
1952	Nesting pair, near Maidstone, no dates.
1953	Two birds, Cliffe, 21st January.
	Nesting pair for second year, near Maidstone, no dates.
	Single bird, Conyer, 25th October.
	Single bird, Elmley, 8th September.
1954	Male, Hythe, 20th June.
	Flock of eight birds, Cliffe, 17th December.
1955	Male, Sevenoaks Weald, February.
	Male, Boughton Monchelsea, March.
	Male, Aylesford Common, June.
	Male, Minnis Bay, November.
1957	Three birds, near Upchurch, 20th October.
	Single bird, Northward Hill, 16th March.
	Single bird, East Malling, 17th May.
	Single bird, Aylesford, 16th July.
	Single bird, Wye, 3rd October.
	Single bird, Dungeness, 7th November.
1958	Single birds at Sevenoaks, Cobham, and Borstal, during winter, no dates.
	One or two pairs may have bred, Funton, no dates.
	Four birds, Northward Hill area, 24th August.
	Single bird, near Bluebell Hill, no date.
	Single bird, near Bredhurst, no date.
1960	There were eight reports during the winter months, no details.
	Single bird, Cliffe, 4th April.
	Single bird, Broomfield, 27th May.
	Immature male, near Boxley, 30th August.
1961	Single bird, Dover, 2nd June, and another 19th September.
	Male, St. Margaret’s, 17th November.
1962	Single bird, Grove, 1st January.
	Male, St. Margaret’s, 3rd May.
1963	Male, St. Margaret’s, 3rd May and 1st July.
	Single bird, Northward Hill, 8th September.
1964	Single bird, Dungeness, 8th January.
	Male, St. Margaret’s, 2nd April and 1st August.
1965	Singing male, Brands Hatch, Fawkham, 7th June.
	Male, St. Margaret’s, 3rd to 30thApril, 28th June, and 5th to 12th August.
1966	Male, St. Margaret’s, 1st March to 29th August.
	Male, Northward Hill, 13th April.
1971	Single bird, Longfield, 8th August.
1977	Singing male, Northward Hill, 31st May.
1978	Adult male, Hollingbourne, August, no exact date.
1983	Adult male, Conningbrook, 2nd January.
2006	Singing male, Dungeness, 5th May.

Little Bunting

Rustic Bunting

Yellow-breasted Bunting

Black-headed Bunting

Dark-eyed Junco

Golden-winged Warbler

Common Yellowthroat

Blackpoll Warbler

1985	Shellness, adult, 7th January to 11th February.
	Chetney, adult, 19th January to 23rd March.
	St. Mary’s Marsh, adult, 25th November to early 1986.
1993	Sheppey, adult, 26th-28th December, same bird seen in Essex.
1995	Sittingbourne, 14th-27th January; same, Sheppey, 4th-5th February; presumed returning bird, Essex, Kent, 1993-1994.
2003	Dungeness, March-May, identification accepted.
2005	Chetney Marshes, single bird, 9th November.
2010	Littlestone, single bird flew S, and later flew W at Dungeness, 2nd December.
2011	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 8th February.
2012	South Swale LNR, single bird, 14th-25rd October.
2013	Oare Marshes, single bird flew east, considered same bird as 2012, 6th April.
No Longer Accepted
1978	Westbere and Sturry, adult, 21st-23rd October, now considered of captive origin.

1985	Sandwich Bay, flock of 22 birds, including 20 adults, 19th January.
1989	Hawden GP, Hayesden, adult, 17th December.
	Bough Beech Reservoir, adult, 27th December.
	Bough Beech Reservoir, 2 adults and 1 immature, 31st December to 13th January 1990.
1990	Bough Beech Reservoir, 2 birds, 13th January.
1998	Cliffe, five birds, 17th October to 1st November.

1970	Sandwich Bay, male, 14th April.
1978	Stodmarsh and Westbere, male, 4th May to 17th June.
1994	Stoke Lagoon, female, 18th to 30th May, associating with male Shoveler, A. clypeata.
1998	Grove Ferry, male, 14th to 28th June.
	Dungeness, male, 6th to 30th August, 12th September.
	Stodmarsh, two males, 24th October.
	Reculver, two males and one female, 11th to 12th December.
1999	Stodmarsh/Grove Ferry, male, 31st January, 1st to 25th March, remaining through into 31st January 2001.
2000	Elmley, male, 9th May. Considered to be the same as Grove Ferry bird.
2001	Refer to 1999 male.
2014	Restharrow Scrape, Sandwich, female, 22nd April, moving to St. George’s Bushes, Sandwich until 30th April.

1917	Monkton, Thanet, male, shot, 15th March, now in Maidstone museum.
1961	Windmill Creek, Sheppey, immature male, 28th October.
1977	Sandwich Bay, female, 11th April to 2nd May, same Westbere, 23rd May.
1982	Elmley, male, 4th to 26th April.
1983	Elmley, first-year male, 8th April to 21st May.
1987	Sandwich Bay, female, 25th-26th February.
1990	Elmley, male, 11th to 21st April.
1993	Minnis Bay, male, 8th-9th January, probably same bird as 1992.
1997	Cliffe, first-winter male, 28th September to 14th October.
1999	Dungeness, male, 24th to 28th April.
2000	Elmley, female, 19th April to 4th May, paired with male Eurasian Wigeon A. penelope.
No Longer Accepted
1968	Stoke Fleet, adult male, 27th April.
1991	Elmley, first-year male, 1st April to 11th May. Now considered an escape.
1992	Elmley, male, 13th-29th December, presumed same bird as 1991. Now considered an escape.

1961	Cheyne Court, Walland, drake, 21st March. Also seen at the Midrips, East Sussex, 19th and 22nd March.
1981	Dungeness RSPB, drake, 25th November.
1983	Elmley Reserve, drake, 2nd April to 8th May.
1990	Sevenoaks Wildfowl Reserve, drake, 6th February to 4th March.
1999	Dungeness RSPB, drake, 18th-26th June.
1996	Stodmarsh, drake, 13th-30th April.
1998	Dungeness RSPB, drake, 12th-14th December.
1999	ARC Pits, Dungeness, drake, 6th January.
	Northwood Hill, drake, 9th-30th April.
2000	Elmley Reserve, drake, 10th April.
2002	Grove Ferry, drake, 26th January.
	Oare Marshes, drake, 24th-30th March.
	Eastborough, drake, 30th March to 20th April.
2003	Northwood Hill, drake, 27th January to 23rd February.
2004	Dungeness, drake, 3rd February.
	Cliffe/Higham, drake, 22nd March to 10th April.
2005	Netherhale, Minnis Bay, drake, 14th-15th February.
	Higham Bight, Cliffe, drake, 20th-21st March.
	Pegwell, drake, 28th March.
	Grove, drake, 3rd-18th April.
	Stodmarsh, drake, 10th-24th April. Different from Grove bird.
2006	Medway, nr. New Hythe, drake, 4th-7th March.
2007	Cliffe Pools, drake, 17th-18th November.
2012	Sandwich Bay, drake, 4th January.
2013	Dungeness RSPB, drake,12th-14th May.
2014	Dungeness RSPB, drake,11th-12th March.
	Grove Ferry, drake,30th November.
2015	Cliffe Pools RSPB, drake, 1st-18th January.
	Sandwich Bay, drake, 15th October.
2017	Oare Marshes, single drake, 15th November, was joined by another drake on 26th. One was last reported there on 23rd December.

Kent Ornithological Society

The Kent List

The Kent List

The Kent List currently stands at 423 species.

The Species

1984	Cliffe, adult, 10th March.
1994	Sheppey, adult, 23rd January to 6th March.
	Sheppey, sub-adult, 5th-13th March.
No Longer Accepted
1991	Westbere area, two adults and an immature, 5th-19th May. Now considered escapes.
1992	Sheppey/Elmley/Swale area, adult, 24th February to 16th May. Now considered an escape.

1996	Cliffe, male, 7th December.
1999	Monk’s Wall, male, 28th May.
2000	Lade/Dungeness, male, 29th January intermittently to 14th March, photographed, with presumed same reappearing from 18th November to year end.
2001	Lade/Dungeness, male, presumed same as 2000 bird, from New Year to 9th March.

2004	Scotney, first winter male, 17th November to end of year.
2005	Scotney, first winter male, same bird as 2004, until 14th March.
	Bough Beech Reservoir, presumed same bird as Scotney, 16th March.

1996	Dumpton, Ramsgate, female, 15th October to 3rd November.
2009	Dungeness, adult male, 20th January, with the same bird reappearing in the Galloway’s and Midripsarea on 14th and 15th February.
No Longer Accepted
pre-1847	Erith Reaches, no date, now at University Museum, Oxford. Erith Reaches no longer in modern Kent.
1915	Dungeness, immature male, washed ashore, 10th November.
1955	Shellness, Sheppey, first-winter male, 27th December.

1889	Admiralty Pier, Dover, adult male killed, winter, no exact date.
1914	Lydd, 14th January.
1926	Dungeness, 23rd April.
1984	The Brooks, Lydd, male seen with flock of Common Scoter, M.p.nigra, 14th April.
1988	Minnis Bay, adult male, flying west with mixed flock of duck, 20th October.
1999	Dungeness, immature male, 20th April.
2000	Dungeness, immature male on the patch, 24th May.
	North Foreland, first winter, 21st October.
	Dungeness, first winter, 13th December
2017	Dungeness, single female flew east, on 2nd May.
No Longer Accepted
1880	Two birds seen at the mouth of the Thames in one of the winters between 1875 and 1880.

2005	Chilham, adult female, 4th-10th December.
2012	Whetsted GP, adult female, 10th February to 6th March.

1969	Milton Creek, The Swale, juvenile, freshly dead, ca. November.
1991	Six kilometers from Ramsgate, seen from ferry, 15th November
1993	Dungeness, adult, 23rd April.
1996	Dungeness, first-summer, 1st May.
1999	Dungeness, two single adults flew East, 30th April.
2005	Dungeness, adult flew east, 28th April.
2008	Dungeness, summer plumaged adult, flew east, 26th April.
2018	Pegwell Bay to Minnis Bay, summer plumaged adult, 2nd-9th November.

2001	Dungeness, sub-adult, 4th May.
No Longer Accepted
1978	Foreness Point, 16th December.

1954	Isle of Sheppey, two birds, 14th November.
1966	Dungeness Bird Observatory, two birds, 15th May.
1967	Sandwich Bay, one north, 19th September.
1968	Dungeness Bird Observatory, one west, 13th April.
1969	Dungeness Bird Observatory, one west, 13th April.
1971	North Foreland, 17th November.
1972	Dungeness Bird Observatory, two west, 16th April.
	Sandwich Bay, 7th May.
1977	Rye Bay, 4th April.
	Dungeness Bird Observatory, two west, 15th May.
	Dungeness Bird Observatory, two west, 11th June.
1978	Dungeness Bird Observatory, 13th April.
	Dungeness Bird Observatory, 5th May.
	Minnis Bay, one west, 1st October.
1979	Dungeness Bird Observatory, 24th April.
	Foreness, 29th July.
1982	Foreness, one east, 9th January.
	Foreness, one west, 30th July.
1983	North Foreland, feeding behind trawler, 16th October.
1987	Dover, from ferry, 6th June.
	Dungeness Bird Observatory, one west, 16th August.
	St. Margaret’s, one south-west, 19th September.
	Foreness, one east, 24th November.
1988	Dover, 26th October.
1989	Reculver, one east, 22nd November. Also seen at Foreness.
1990	Sandwich Bay, one south, 14th November.
1991	Reculver, one east, 16th June.
1993	Dungeness Bird Observatory, 20th September.
1994	North Foreland, one south, 23rd October.
1997	Dungeness Bird Observatory, 31st August.
1998	Reculver, 26th August.
	Dungeness Bird Observatory, one west, 9th September.
	Dungeness Bird Observatory, one west, 12th September.
2000	Dungeness Bird Observatory, one west, 5th July.
2003	Reculver, one east, 20th October.
2005	Dungeness Bird Observatory, one east, 15th April.
2011	Bockhill, single bird, 27th July.
2018	Shellness, two birds, 26th October.

1890	Ramsgate Harbour, 29th October.
1915	Dungeness Bird Observatory, 30th August.
1938	Dungeness Bird Observatory, found dead, 21st November.
1953	Lower Hope Point, 16th August.
1963	Sandwich Bay, 24th February, dead for 6-8 weeks.
1968	Foreness, 22nd October.
1990	Dungeness Bird Observatory, flying west, 27th January.
2007	Dover, seen from ferry three kilometers to south, 1st September.
2008	Dungeness Bird Observatory, single bird flew west, 2nd August.
2018	Dungeness Bird Observatory, single bird flew west, 29th March.

1844	Romney Marsh, shot, no date.
c.1854	Weald, killed, no date.
1856	Fairfield, Romney Marsh, obtained, 5th May.
1884	Rainham, early July, found dead 8th September.
1958	Stone Cliff, moulting first-winter to adult,7th August. Remained in Iden area, East Sussex until 14th September.
1982	Littlebourne, 19th and 21st May.
1983	Margate, 10th June, presumed same, Elmley, 11th.
1988	Near Sandwich, 2nd July.
1989	Murston, 28th April.
	Murston, presumed another, refer 28th April, 28th may, probably same as East Sussex individual.
1991	Elmley 12th May.
	Dungeness, 1st June.
1993	Cliffe, 21st July.
1995	Folkestone, 22nd June.
2002	Dungeness RSPB, circling over, 31st May.
	Dungeness RSPB, circling over, 10th September.
2004	Hawthorn Corner, Walland, 16th September, is considered to be same bird as adult flying SE out to sea at Bockhill, 19th September.
2006	Hadlow, Tonbridge, single bird, 28th May.
	Margate, single bird flew north-west, 6th June.
2007	Sandwich, adult, circled over and flew towards Eastry, 4th July.
2008	Chartham/Seaton area, first-summer, 18th-19th July.
2010	Sevenoaks WR, juvenile, 4th August.
	Eythorne, adult, 10th October.
2013	Cottington, Deal, single bird, 9th August.
2015	Saltwood, Hythe, Dengemarsh, then Dungeness and Lydd-on-Sea, a wandering first year bird, 7th August.
2016	Stodmarsh, single bird, 22nd July.
	Ashford, Westerham, and Worth Marshes, 23rd July; presumably the same bird as previous day at Stodmarsh.
No Longer Accepted
1957	Canterbury/Dover area, September to November, possible escape.
1981	Whitstable/Reculver area, 5th October to 17th December.

1845	Sandwich, shot, September. Now at Brighton Museum.
c.1860	Near Lullingstone Castle, shot, no date.
1870	No locality, adult female, killed 29th April.
1877	Mersham, nr. Ashford, adult female, June.
pre-1889	Elmstone, killed, no date.
1897	Between Ramsgate and Sandwich, adult female, early October.
1898	Near Sandwich, early October.
1899	Preston Marshes, adult, shot
1918	Near Wateringbury, caught, 2nd September.
1929	Near Deal, believed to be Cottington Marsh. Harrison wrote in 1934 that this species has used marsh “since 1929”.
1933	Near Deal, believed to be Cottington Marsh, ‘several’ in 1933 & believed to breed.
1946	Near Deal, adult male, 23rd June to 6th July.
1947	Near Deal, two adults, one immature, spring to late July.
1958	Yalding Gravel Pit, adult female, 10th August.
1962	Stodmarsh, adult male, 27th May.
1964	Deal, adult male, 4th May, caught, died later.
	Dungeness, male, trapped, 15th May.
	Sandwich Bay, male, trapped, 23rd to 27th May.
1966	Stodmarsh, male, 23rd July.
1968	Dungeness, immature, 10th August.
1969	Stodmarsh, male, 11th June.
1971	Westbere, male, 2nd May.
1972	Chetney Marshes, female, 20th May.
1973	Westbere, two males, 6th May.
1975	Stodmarsh, male, 25th to 27th May.
1976	Stodmarsh, male, 15th May.
	Cliffe, immature, 25th August.
	Sevenoaks, male, 17th October.
1999	Stodmarsh, male, 1st to 6th June.
2000	Oare Marshes, male, 28th June.
2002	Hoo Peninsula, male, found dead, 19th July.
2003	Dungeness Reserve, male, 11th-18th May.
2012	Sevenoaks WR, female or juvenile, 15th September.
No Longer Accepted
1898	Romney Marsh, 8th June.
1921	Near Lydd, male, May.

c.1847	Romney Marsh, shot, no date.
1867	Bedgebury Park, nr. Hawkhurst, shot, 20th May.
1979	Cliffe, 4th-9th July.
1990	Elmley, 7th-14th May.
2004	Dungeness, 3rd June, with presumably same bird at Minnis Bay, 4th June.
2007	Nicholl’s GP, Palmarsh, first-summer, 2nd June, presumed same Oare Marshes 3rd June, and then Ham Road Pits, Faversham, 17th-18th June.
	Long Pits, Dungeness, adult, 9th June.
2011	Dungeness RSPB, adult, 15th-19th June.
2012	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 30th May.
2017	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 11th-13th June.
No Longer Accepted
1907	Romney Marsh, male and female, 29th May.
1914	Romney Marsh, male, April.

2002	Elmley, second summer male, 3rd-20th August.
2011	Cliffe Pools RSPB, juvenile, 24th-27th September.
2015	Pegwell, then Sandwich Bay, first-year bird, 23rd September.
2016	South Swale, adult male, 10th April.
2016	South Swale, adult male, 10th April.
	Dungeness, adult male, 17th and 24th September.
	Harty, Sheppey, and Oare Marshes, juvenile, 25th September until 2nd October.

1783	St. Margaret’s, two, one shot, no date.
1797	Halling, female shot, no date.
1850	Lydd, female, shot, 4th January.
1859	New Romney, immature male, shot between 5th and 12th January, now at Maidstone Museum.
1879	Romney Marsh, late December.
1880	Great Chart, nr. Ashford, immature female, early January, now at Rochester Museum.
	Nr. Wye, adult male, shot, late January.
1883	Rolvenden, male, shot, no date.
	Wye, female, shot, no date.
1884	Whitstable, well before 1884, no date.
pre 1909	Barham Downs, Ticehurst refers to a bird ‘some years ago’.
1970	Bockhill Farm, St. Margaret’s Bay, two, 11th January.
1978	St. Nicholas-at-Wade, first-winter male, 7th January to 9th April.
1981	Walland Marsh, three, 20th December.
	High Halstow, one 29th to 30th December.
2016	Samphire Hoe, single bird in off the sea, 4th May. Probably a bird from the Wiltshire reintroduction scheme which are known to wander to the near continent during the winter months.
No Longer Accepted
2015	Pittswood/Hadlow/Tonbridge, single bird, 11th April. Accepted into Category E.

1834	Chatham, killed, January.
1839	Nr. Lydd, female killed, 11th November.
pre-1844	Nr. Lydd, female killed, no date.
pre-1845	Nr. Canterbury,female, killed, no date, now at Canterbury Museum.
1860	St. Nicholas-at-Wade, Thanet, shot, no date.
ca.1878	Higham, nr. Rochester, killed, no date.
ca.1894	Pineham, nr. Dover, no date.
1902	Nr. St. Peter’s, Thanet, shot, 20th December.
1940	Walland Marsh, 12th April.
1952	Nr. Hernhill, Faversham, immature male, shot, 5th January.
1958	Hadlow, 17th October.
No Longer Accepted
1809	Nr. Romsey, female, killed, January.
1893	Newenden, female, 2nd January.

1997	Bough Beech Reservoir, male, 23rd to 30th March.
2000	Dungeness, female, 14th May.

1850	Cottington, Deal, obtained, 19th September.
	Cottington, Deal, another late October.
1870	Nr. Hythe, shot, October.
1943	Cottington, Deal, adult male, shot 9th May.
1999	Grove Ferry, male, 6th June to 20th July.
2001	Oare Marshes, singing male, 26th June to 6th July, sound-recorded.
2014	Oare Marshes, singing male, 22nd-23rd May.
No Longer Accepted
1906	Nr. Lydd, female, 24th November.

	Worth Marshes, 28th September to 18th November.
1979	Headcorn, first-winter, 15th-21st December.
1985	DartfordMarshes, 8th March to 13th April.
1998	Graveney and Nagden Marshes, 8th-19th October.
	Capel Fleet, 10th October to 1st November.
2007	Grove Ferry, first-winter, 21st December.
No Longer Accepted
1907	Romney Marsh, six, immature female shot, 3rd May.

1978	Westbere, adult, 18th June.
1990	Sandwich Bay, adult, 20th-22nd June.
1995	Elmley, adult, 17th-31st August.
2009	Cliffe Pools, single adult, 8th July.
No Longer Accepted
1915	Romney Marsh, male, female, and at least four others, 20th September.

1984	Oakhamness Island, Medway, adult, 22nd-23rd July.
1985	Elmley, adult, 6th July.
1992	Dungeness, adult, 9th and 12th July.
1997	Pegwell Bay, adult, 12th June.
2000	Yantlet Creek, adult 8th May.

1978	Grove Ferry, 29th April to 2nd May.
1982	Elmley, adult, 16th-29th May.
1987	Dungeness, first-summer, 10th-15th May.
2008	Pegwell Bay, summer plumaged bird, 1st-5th June.
	Elmley RSPB, possibly same bird as previous record, 30th July to 4th September, shows at Conyer on 16th August.
2015	Scotney GP, a single bird on 12th February, was originally located amongst a flock of Golden Plover at the East Sussex end of the pit.
2018	Oare Marshes, moulting adult, 23rd-26th October.
2019	Oare Marshes/Shellness, single bird, 7th September until 12th October.

1970	Harty, trapped, 30th August.
1982	Cliffe Pools, 13th-17th May.
1983	Sandwich Bay, 4th June.
1984	Pegwell Bay, two, 23rd-28th May; presumed one of same, Sandwich Bay, 31st.
1985	Elmley, 12th-15th May.
1986	Elmley, 4th-6th July.
1987	Elmley, 23rd-24th May.
1988	Cliffe Pools, 26th-27th May, another two, 27th, presumed same as Essex.
1991	Swale NNR, 18th-20th May.
1993	Shellness, 3rd May.
1994	Elmley, 19th-22nd July.
1997	Cliffe Pools, 31st May.
2005	Cliffe Pools, adult, 14th-15th May.
No Longer Accepted
1896	Dungeness, immature female, 6th September.
1901	Littlestone, immature female, 31st August.

1985	Elmley, adult, 27th-28th July.
1987	Sandwich Bay, adult, 4th-13th September.
2001	Grove Ferry, adult, 30th August.
2007	Oare Marshes, adult, 10th-11th August.

1985	Dungeness, adult, 22nd August.
1987	Cliffe Pools, adult, 18th-25th August.
1990	Cliffe Pools, adult, 11th-23rd July, trapped 12th; initially thought to be same bird as seen later in Suffolk, but absence of rings on that bird proves otherwise.

1952	The Wicks, nr. Dungeness, adult, 19th-27th September.
1973	Bough Beech Reservoir, 22nd-23rd September.
1987	Dungeness, adult, 20th-24th September.
1988	Dungeness, adult, 7th-15th September.
1989	Elmley, juvenile, 27th September to 8th October.
1996	Sandwich Bay, 4th October.
2005	Dungeness, juvenile, 3rd-17th October.
2016	Coldharbour Lagoon, Reculver, juvenile, 26th-28th August.

1976	Sandwich Bay, 24th October.
1994	Dungeness, adult, 18th-25th August, with crippled legs and missing toes.

1945	Sandwich Bay, 17th August.
1960	Sandwich, 2nd October.
1977	Bough Beech Reservoir, 27th August.
	Grain, 4th September.
	Reculver, 3rd October.
1978	Sandwich Bay, adult, 1st August.
1980	Cliffe Pools, adult, 2nd-11th August.
	Dungeness, adult, 15th-21st September; trapped 15th.
	Elmley, juvenile and first-winter or adult, 12th-23rd October.
	Cliffe Pools, another, 18th-22nd October.
1981	Elmley, 15th September.
1984	Grain, 16th-19th September.
	Grain, another, 30th September to 7th October.
1986	Worth Marshes, 9th April.
1994	Cliffe Pools, adult, 12th-14th August.
1995	Reculver, adult, 5th-6th August.
	Sandwich Bay, adult, 5th-8th September.
1996	Pegwell Bay, adult, 26th July.
	Elmley, adult, 28th July.
	Elmley, adult, 3rd September.
1998	Elmley, adult, 17th-18th July.
	Pegwell Bay, adult, 29th-30th July.
	Oare Marshes, adult, 19th-26th August.
1999	Cliffe Pools, juvenile, 28th October.
2000	Elmley, adult, 5th-9th August.
	Grove Ferry, juvenile, 15th October.
2002	Grove Ferry, adult, 20th July.
2005	Shellness, adult, 4th July.
	Cliffe Pools RSPB, first-winter, 24th October.
2006	Dengemarsh, juvenile, 8th October.
2008	Grove Ferry, adult, 19th-20th June.
2009	Elmley, adult, 13th-14th August.
2010	Oare Marshes, adult, 16th-30th September.
2011	Dungeness, single bird, 14th August.
2015	Oare Marshes, adult bird, 11th-20th August.
2017	Oare Marshes, adult bird, 15th July.
2018	Oare Marshes, adult bird, 21st July.

1943	Near Deal, 1st August.
1977	Cliffe Pools, 10th September to 9th October.
	Dungeness Reserve, 14th September.
1979	Elmley Reserve, 7th October.
1981	Bough Beech, 13th-14th October.
1984	Dungeness Reserve, 8th September.
	Grain Pits, 15th-17th September, then again Grain Refinery, 18th September.
1986	Sandwich Bay, 5th August.
1994	Cliffe Pools, 27th-31st August.
1996	Dungeness Reserve, 8th September.
1998	Shellness, Sheppey, 11th September, then Oare, 12th September.
1999	Elmley Reserve, 15th September.
2004	Grove Ferry, juvenile, 2nd-25th October.
2005	Dungeness Reserve, juvenile, 25th August to 1st September.
2006	Oare, juvenile, 9th-10th October.
2009	Scotney, single bird, 29th September.
2010	Dungeness RSPB, single adult, 15th-16th August.
	Scotney, two juveniles, 28th September to 5th October, with a third joining them on 6th. All three remained until 10th October.
	Reculver, single bird, 3rd October.
2011	Royal Cinque GC, Sandwich, two birds, 24th-30th September.
	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 21st-22nd September, and again on the 28th.
2013	Elmley NNR, adult, 23rd-25th August.
2016	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 9th-12th September.
2018	Scotney, single bird, 25th September to 2nd October.

1984	Elmley, adult, 21st-26th July.
2011	Cliffe Pools, juvenile, 25th September.
2012	Dungeness RSPB, juvenile, 9th-17th September.
2013	Dungeness RSPB, juvenile, 9th-11th September.
No Longer Accepted
1965	Dungeness 6th-9th September.
1967	Sevenoaks Wildfowl Reserve, 10th September.