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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.

Pegwell Bay, single bird on 30th November.

2018

Lower Stoke, single bird, 18th March.

Shellness/Harty Marshes, two birds, 16th April.

2019

Seasalter, single bird, 29th October.