Kent Ornithological Society

Rare Vagrant

2024	Cliffe Pools RSPB, single bird, 23rd June, and later seen at North foreland on the same day.
2023	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 27th-28th June.
	Pegwell Bay, single bird, 19th May.
2022	Dungeness RSPB, adult summer, flew high E, 25th June.
	South Foreland, adult summer, presumed same as Swalecliffe and Stodmarsh NNR bird, 27th May.
	Stodmarsh NNR, adult summer, presumed same as Swalecliffe bird, 26th May.
	Pegwell Bay, adult summer, presumed same as Swalecliffe bird, 23rd May.
	Swalecliffe, adult summer, 18th-20th May.
2021	Worth Marshes, adult flew N, 8th June.
2014	Dungeness RSPB, adult, 6th August.
2013	Bockhill, one flew down channel, 5th August.
1999	Oare Marshes, 11th July.
1997	Pegwell Bay and Stodmarsh, 1st-2nd August.
1996	Stodmarsh and Hersden, 15th June.
1995	Bough Beech Reservoir, 30th April.
1990	Dungeness, 15th July.
1988	Dungeness, 17th-18th June.
	Folkestone Warren, 5th June.
1985	Sea area Dover, one seen about 20 minutes out of Dover, 6th August.
1984	Dungeness, 29th May.
1981	Stodmarsh, 6th August.
1980	Pegwell Bay, 24th July.
1978	Lade, Dungeness, 3rd June.
1977	Margate, two, 16th June.
	Sandwich Bay, two, possibly three, 3rd June.
1976	Dungeness, adult, 18th May.
	Dover, adult, 6th May.
1975	Reculver, 1st June.
1971	Kingsdown, Deal, 19th April.
1969	Sandwich Bay, 27th July.
1966	Stodmarsh, 12th June.
1954	Mote Park, Maidstone, 3rd-4th May.
1935	Dungeness, immature female, hit lighthouse, 9th October.

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