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.

  Dungeness BO, single bird present from 15th-17th October.

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

Hillborough, 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.

  Leysdown CP, single bird, 7th September.
 

Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 14th September.

 

Elmley, one present, 27th September to 10th October.

  Swalecliffe, single bird, 30th September.
 

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.

2020 Worth Marshes, first-year bird, 8th-10th September.
2021 Worth Marshes, single bird, 7th-9th September.
2022 North Foreland, single bird, 12th October.
2023 Reculver Marshes, first-year bird ringed, 4th September.
  Hope Point, single bird, 29th September.
  Walmer Beach, single bird, 30th November.

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