Cepphus grylle

Passage Vagrant

2025 Reculver, first-winter flew east, 19th November.
Dungeness BO, single bird flew west, 19th October.
  St Margarets-at-Cliffe, single bird, 14th September.
2023 Foreness, single bird, 12th-13th November.
2022 Dungeness, moulting adult on sea, 8th August.
  Swalecliffe, single bird, present from 2021, and seen intermittently until at least 7th May.
2021 Swalecliffe, single bird seen on 4th, 11th, and 20th November, and intermittently until the year end.
  Greenham Bay, single bird flew east, 11th October, and what may have been the same bird flying west at Reculver on the same day.
  Samphire Hoe, single bird flew east, 18th September.
2020 Coldharbour (Reculver), first-winter bird flew east, 18th November.
  St. Margaret's Bay, single bird flew east, 27th July.
2011

Reculver, single bird, 13th August.

2006

Swalecliffe, single bird, 4th December.

 

Deal Pier, single bird drifted south, 15th November.

 

Reculver, single bird flew west, 1st November.

2004

Swalecliffe, summer plumage adult flew west, 5th August.

2003

Dungeness, 12th April.

2000

Dungeness, winter plumage, 19th September.

1996

Dungeness Bird Observatory, 23rd-29th August.

 

Dungeness Bird Observatory, summer plumage adult, east, 13th May.

 

Dungeness Bird Observatory, 7th March.

1995

Reculver, winter plumage, offshore, 10th-16th December.

1989

Reculver, summer plumage adult, 9th September.

1987

Off Goodwin Sands, 5 miles South-east of Ramsgate, 15th November.

 

Dungeness Bird Observatory, 16th August.

 

St. Margaret's, 19th February.

1985

Sandwich Bay, 6th November.

1983

Dungeness Bird Observatory, 27th November.

1977

Ramsgate, found oiled 28th July, released 18th August.

1972

Deal, 15th March.

1961

Dungeness Bird Observatory, single bird west, 12th August.

1956

Dungeness Bird Observatory, 2nd August.

1951

Dungeness Bird Observatory, winter plumage, 10th February.

1911

Dungeness Bird Observatory, adult male in summer plumage, 21st May. Specimen now in Maidstone Museum.

1900

An undated but presumably 19th century record of an immature bird collected in the East Bay at Dungeness, now in Folkestone Museum.

 

An undated but presumably 19th century record of an immature bird in the Hammond Collection.

1844

Dungeness Peninsula, specimen obtained prior to this year either at sea off Dungeness, or possibly taken "in the Parish of Lydd". Specimen now lost.

No Longer Accepted

1885

Thames at Cliffe, shot by Mr. AB Farn below the Mucking Light, 28th August.

1997

Oare Marshes, 13th September.

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