Acrocephalus paludicola

Rare Autumn Passage Migrant

1998

Stodmarsh, single bird, 6th September.

1964 

Sandwich Bay, single bird trapped, 25th August.

1963

Stoke Fleet, single bird, 18th August.

No longer accepted
2007

Nagden Marsh, trapped and photographed, 29th August.

2006

Seasalter, 17th-20th August.

 

Sandwich Bay, first-year bird, ringed as nestling in Belarus on 17th June, was controlled on 15th August.

2004

Waterham, near Seasalter, juvenile trapped and ringed, 2nd August.

2000

Sandwich Bay, single bird trapped, 19th August.

1999

Grove Ferry, single bird, 31st August.

 

Swale NNR, single bird, 30th August.

 

Grove Ferry, single bird, 24th August.

1996

Nagden, single bird trapped, 2nd September.

 

Dungeness Reserve, single bird, 21st August.

 

Long Pits, Dungeness, single bird, 12th August.

1995

Elmley, another bird, 3rd September.

 

Elmley, three birds, 20th-25th August, including one ringed at Icklesham, Sussex, on the 12th.

1994

Stodmarsh, single bird trapped, 14th August.

1993

Elmley, single bird, 29th-31st August.

1991

Foreness, single bird, 2nd September.

1989

Stodmarsh, juvenile bird trapped, 4th August.

1987

Cliffe, single bird, 22nd-24th August.

1986

Dungeness, single bird, 15th September.

1985

Walland Reservoir, single bird, 13th August.

1984

Dungeness, single bird, 26th August.

1983

Sandwich Bay, single bird trapped, 10th August.

 

Foreness, another, 9th August.

 

Foreness, single bird, 8th August.

1981

Dungeness, single bird, 20th September.

 

Cliffe, single bird, 16th September.

 

Elmley, single bird, 6th August.

1980

Sandwich Bay, single birds, 9th and 22nd August.

1979

Cliffe, single bird, 21st September.

 

Minster-in-Thanet, single bird, trapped, 25th August.

1976

Lower Hope Point, first-year, 9th August.

1975

Dungeness, single bird, 10th-14th September.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 2nd September.

1964

Sevenoaks WR, single bird, 21st August.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 27th September.

1963

Dungeness, single bird trapped, 21st September.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 1st September.

1962

Sandwich Bay, single bird trapped, 9th September.

1961

Long Pits, Dungeness, single bird, 24th September.

1960

Dungeness, single bird, 18th September.

1959

Dungeness, single bird trapped, 2nd August.

1955

Dungeness, single bird trapped, 15th August.

1951

Near Dungeness, 5th September.

1938

Dungeness Lighthouse, first-year, picked up dead, night of 25th-26th September.

1937

Cheyne Court, Walland Marsh, 22nd August.

1933 Cliffe, 6th August, pair with nest watched over a period, probably this year.
1931

Dungeness, 14th September.

1926

Preston, male, shot, 10th August, now at Maidstone Museum.

1916

Dungeness, 12th September.

1915

Oppen Pits, Dungeness, single bird, 30th August.

  Oppen Pits, Dungeness, three birds, 10th September.
 

Brookland, single bird, 7th September.

The Kent Ornithological Society was founded in 1952

Our aims are to record and monitor the county’s bird life providing both an accurate historical record of Kent’s birds but equally importantly providing data that can be used to help protect valuable habitats from development and other threats.

In doing this, we seek increase knowledge and understanding of birds and their habitats in the county and encourage and support people seeking to take up birdwatching as a hobby.

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