Common Rosefinch

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Carpodacus erythrinus

Rare Passage Migrant

2023 Sandwich Bay, juvenile bird, trapped and ringed, 12th November.
2022 Langdon Hole, male, 13th-15th September.
  Sandwich Bay BO, juvenile trapped and ringed, 30th August.
  North Foreland, 2cy/male, 18th June.
2020 Dungeness BO, singing male, 18th July.
2017

Shuart, female/immature, 28th September.
 

Bockhill, female flew north, 1st July.
2016

Dungeness, singing male, 28th May.
2010

Dungeness, singing male at Long Pits, briefly 16th June.
2008

Dungeness, first-summer male, in song, 3rd-4th June.
2003

Dungeness, male, 10th June.
2002

Capel-le-Ferne, male in song briefly, then flew off West, 31st May.
2001

Dungeness, male, 24th May.
1999

South Foreland, St. Margaret's, first-winter, 16th September.
1997

Dungeness, singing male, 18th May.
1996

Dungeness, sub-adult male, 2nd June.
1995

Dungeness Observatory, singing male, 31st July.
1994

Swalecliffe, juvenile, 3rd-5th September.
 

Dungeness, singing male, 15th June.
1993

Stodmarsh, male, 6th June.
 

Dungeness, singing male and female/first-winter together, 28th May.
1992

Lullingstone, singing male, 21st June.
 

Dungeness Reserve, first-summer male, 13th June.
1990

Minnis Bay, first-year, 27th August.
1989

Shellness, Sheppey, immature, 10th September.
1988

Folkestone, immature male, 14th June.
1987

Port Regis, Foreness, female, 14th September.
1983

Dungeness, male in song, 4th June.
1981

Dungeness, 1st September.
1977

Two birds, probable pair, Dungeness, 19th-24th June, with one, a first-summer male, until 27th. Both trapped and ringed.
1971

Broadstairs, female trapped and ringed, 19th September.
1968

Sandwich Bay BO, female, 22nd October.
1966

Dungeness, male seen in song, 2nd May.
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