With over 100 records between 1842 and 1976, comprising more than 130 birds, this species would not normally be included in this list. However, as a species which causes great interest amongst birders, it is included here. Selected records pre-1977, and all records since are shown.

Red-spotted Bluethroat Luscinia svecica svecica

Scarce spring and common autumn migrant

1977

Sandwich Bay, immature male, trapped 19th September.

 

Dungeness, one trapped, 25th-26th September, with second bird present on 26th.

1978

Foreness Point, single bird, 2nd October.

1980

Pegwell Bay, male, 2nd October.

1981

Aycliffe, Dover, male, 16th March.

 

Sandwich Bay, female, 17th May.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 29th August.

 

Dungeness Pits, single bird, 13th September.

1984

Hadlow, male, 13th-14th May.

 

Sandwich Bay, male, 21st May.

 

Leysdown, single bird, 16th September.

1985

Foreness, single bird, 4th April.

 

Sandwich Bay, one trapped, 15th May.

 

Cliffe, single bird, 16th June.

 

Sandwich Bay, one trapped, 21st October.

1986

Weald, Sevenoaks, male, 1st June.

 

Foreness, single bird, 18th September.

1987

Foreness, single birds, 22nd and 24th May.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 26th May.

 

Foreness, single bird, 26th August.

1988

Foreness, single bird, 28th April.

1989

Dungeness, first year male, 12th September.

1991

Sandwich Bay, female, 2nd-5th May.

1994

Foreness, single bird, 18th-19th October.

1995

Kingsgate, Foreness, adult male, 22nd September.

1996

Bockhill, St. Margaret's, single bird, 28th March.

 

Sandwich Bay, single males, 6th and 11th April.

 

Abbotscliffe, female, 13th-14th April.

 

Foreness, male, 19th May.

 

Chambers Wall, Reculver, female, 16th September.

1997

Hoo Peninsula, female, 13th May.

1998

Foreness, two, 28th May.

 

Pegwell Bay, single bird, 28th May.

 

Coldharbour, Reculver, single bird, 10th October.

1999

Stodmarsh, male, 29th May.

2001

Tennant's Hill, Deal, single bird, 18th March.

 

Swalecliffe, female, 27th March.

2006

Pegwell Bay, adult male, 26th March.

2007

Sandwich Bay, male, 21st October.

2010

Kingsdown, single bird, 1st October.

2011

South Swale LNR, single bird, 17th May.

 

Oare Marshes, single bird, 21st May, presumed same bird as South Swale.

2013

Dungeness, male, 17th May.

2014

Grove Ferry, single bird, 18th April.

2016

Sandown, Deal, single bird, 25th August.

2021 Bockhill, single bird, 10th October.

White-spotted Bluethroat Luscinia svecica cyanecula

Scarce spring and common autumn migrant

1936

Dungeness, Oppen Pits, adult male, 22nd September.

1942

Hothfield, nr. Ashford, single bird, 2nd February.

1959

West Malling, adult male, 5th May.

1960

Dungeness, adult male, trapped 16th September.

 

Dungeness, juvenile, 19th September.

1961

Sandwich Bay, adult male, trapped 1st April.

1960

Dungeness, adult male, trapped 26th September.

 

Dungeness, adult male, trapped 30th September.

1968

Dungeness, single bird, 15th April.

1972

Shellness, Sheppey, adult male in song, 9th April.

1980

Dungeness, male, trapped 21st September.

1987

Foreness, single bird, 31st March.

 

Minnis Bay, single bird, 4th April.

1988

Dover Docks, male, trapped 23rd March.

1992

Reculver, male, trapped 29th March.

2002

Palmarsh, single bird, 17th March.

2008

Dungeness, male photographed, 8th April.

2013

Samphire Hoe, female, 27th March until 6th April.

 

Bockhill, male, 1st-6thApril.

2015

Nagden Marshes, male, 13th April.

 

Grove Ferry, male, 30th May.

2018

Dengemarsh, two males, 18th-25th March.

2020 Samphire Hoe, male, 24th March.

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