Curruca nisoria

Rare autumn vagrant

2024 Langdon Cliffs, single bird, 16th September.
2023 Walmer Beach, single bird, 30th November.
  Hope Point, single bird, 29th September.
  Reculver Marshes, first-year bird trapped and ringed, 4th September.
2022 North Foreland, single bird, 12th October.
2021 Worth Marshes, single bird, 7th-9th September.
2020 Worth Marshes, first-year bird, 8th-10th September.
2015

Dungeness, single bird trapped and ringed, 23rd October.

2014

Dungeness BO, single bird, 11th September.

 

Bockhill, single bird, 9th August.

2013

North Foreland, single bird, 27th August.

2012

Chambers Wall, single bird, 14th November.

 

Abbotscliffe, single bird, 9th October.

 

Dungeness BO, single bird, 29th September.

2010

Bockhill, single bird, 12th October.

 

Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 2nd-8th October.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 27th September to 4th October.

2008

Bockhill, single bird, 26th and 28th September.

2007

Bockhill, single bird, 9th-8th September.

2006

Bockhill, single bird, 23rd-30th August.

2005

Oare Marshes, juvenile bird, 18th September.

 

Palm Bay, Cliftonville, juvenile bird, 1st September.

2002

Bockhill, another bird, 2nd-6th October.

 

Bockhill, single bird, 1st September.

2001

St. Margaret's, another bird, trapped 26th September.

 

St. Margaret's, single bird, trapped 23rd August.

2000

Kingsdown, single bird, 17th-19th December. An unusually late individual.

 

Sandwich Bay, another trapped, 17th October.

 

Sandwich Bay, juvenile trapped, 14th October.

 

St. Margaret's, one trapped, 30th September. Later relocated at Bockhill until 2nd October.

1999

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 16th October.

1997

Dungeness Long Pits, single bird, 28th August.

1996

Hoo Peninsula, single bird, 23rd October.

  Swalecliffe, single bird, 30th September.
 

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

 

Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 14th September.

  Leysdown CP, single bird, 7th September.
 

Dungeness, single bird, 19th August.

1995

Sandwich Bay, another bird, 20th September.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 10th August.

 

Grain Power Station, one trapped, 5th September.

1994

Bishopstone, single bird, 14th-18th October.

 

Minnis Bay, single bird, 11th September.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 25th August.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 11th August.

1993

Bishopstone, juvenile bird, 1st October.

 

Pegwell Bay, juvenile bird, 29th August.

1992

St. Margaret's, single bird, 19th September.

 

Foreness, single bird, 21st September.

 

Harty, one died in collision with car, 9th August.

1991

Dungeness, single bird, 1st October.

 

Warden, Sheppey, single bird, 14th September.

 

Grain, single bird, 21st August.

1990

Dungeness, juvenile bird, 17th September.

1989

Dungeness, another single bird, 24thSeptember.

 

North Foreland, single bird, 13th-14th September.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 19th August.

1988

Dungeness, single bird, 25th October.

 

Sandwich Bay, one trapped, 1st October.

 

St. Margaret's, single bird, 1st October.

 

Hillborough, nr. Bishopstone, single bird, September 10th.

1986

Dungeness, single bird, 28th October.

 

Minnis Bay, single bird, 23rd September.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 16th September.

 

Foreness, single bird, 13th-17th September.

 

ARC Pit, Dungeness, single bird, 13thSeptember.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 29th August.

1984

West Hythe, first-winter, 30th September.

1983

Sandwich Bay, one trapped, 6th September, and retrapped on the 8th.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 28th August.

 

Sandwich Bay, one trapped, 11th August.

1981

Dungeness, single bird, 13th September.

 

Sandwich Bay, one trapped, 6th September.

1980

Foreness, single bird, 29th September.

1979

Dungeness, single bird on the unusually late dates of 4th-6th December.

 

Margate, single bird, 6th September.

1977

Dungeness, single bird trapped, 25th September.

 

Foreness Point, probably another bird, 24th September.

 

Foreness Point, another bird present, 19th-20th September.

 

Foreness Point, single bird, 29th August.

 

Dungeness, single bird trapped, was present 25th-27th September.

1976

Minnis Bay S.F., immature seen well, 25th September.

 

St. Nicholas-at-Wade, immature seen well, 29th August.

1974 Dungeness BO, single bird present from 15th-17th October.
 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, first seen on 3rd October before being trapped on 5th October.

 

Sandwich Bay, one trapped, 19th September.

1973

Dungeness, single bird, 29th August.

1972

Dungeness, single bird, 26thSeptember.

 

Sandwich Bay, one trapped, 15th September.

1971

Kennington, Ashford, bird found dead, 13th November.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 20th August.

1969

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 5th September.

1968

Dungeness, single bird, 8th September.

1967

Sandwich Bay, another trapped, 8th October.

 

Sandwich Bay, one trapped, 7th September.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 12th September.

1966

Worth, single bird, 25th September.

 

Dungeness, single bird trapped, 18thSeptember.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 30th August.

1964

Sandwich Bay, one seen, 1st September.

 

Sandwich Bay, one trapped, 15th August.

1962

Sandwich Bay, one trapped, 23rd September.

1960

Dungeness, single bird trapped, 17thSeptember.

1959

Dungeness, single bird trapped, 29th August.

1958

Shellness, Sheppey, single bird, 28th September.

1957

Sandwich Bay, juvenile, trapped, 30th August.

 

Dungeness, juvenile trapped, 22nd August.

1953

Sandwich Bay, one trapped, 25th September.

1951

Dungeness, single bird, 4th October.

No Longer Accepted

1907 Woodchurch, two adults shot, 24th April. Hastings Rarity.

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