Black-bellied Dipper Cinclus cinclus cinclus

Rare Vagrant

2018 Hollingbourne, nominate Black-bellied race C. c. cinclus, 2nd and 4th December.
2004 Furnace Pond, near Cowden, race undetermined, 23rd April.
1999 Herne Bay, race undetermined, 22nd December.
1994 River Stour, Chilham, nominate Black-bellied race C. c. cinclus, 12th March.
Kearnsey, nr. Dover, nominate Black-bellied race C. c. cinclus, 1st January to mid-February, and again on 19th March.
1993 River Stour, Sandwich, race undetermined, 2nd November.
1989 Brockhill Park, Sandling, race undetermined, 11th-20th January.
1988 Loose stream, nominate Black-bellied race C. c. cinclus, 22nd-24th March.
River Stour, Chilham, nominate Black-bellied race C. c. cinclus, 19th-21st March.
1982 Otford, race undetermined, 11th-20th January.
1977 Loose Valley, Maidstone, nominate Black-bellied race C. c. cinclus, from previous year until 22nd February.
1976 Loose Valley, Maidstone, nominate Black-bellied race C. c. cinclus, 16th November to end of year.
Presumably same bird as Sandwich at Worth marshes on 2nd November and 24th December.
Sandwich, nominate Black-bellied race C. c. cinclus, flew in off sea, 31st October.
1975 Again River Len between Leeds and Maidstone, 20th February. Trapped and ringed Leeds Castle Estate 12th March.
Loose Valley, Maidstone, nominate Black-bellied race C. c. cinclus, 25th January.
1974 Sandling Park, nominate Black-bellied race C. c. cinclus, 20th January.
1966 Loose Valley, Maidstone, bore a ring, 9th January and 21st March. Almost certainly the bird trapped at Mote Park in 1965.
1965 Loose, 6th December, likely to be same as November bird.
Mote Park, Maidstone, first-winter, nominate Black-bellied race C. c. cinclus, trapped 28th November. 
1955 Sandwich, nominate Black-bellied race C. c. cinclus, 20th November to 6th December.
Royal Military Canal, Hythe, nominate Black-bellied race C. c. cinclus, 22nd February to 3rd March.
1944 River Stour, Wickhambreaux/Littlebourne, single bird, 24th-30th December.
1908 River Stour, location not stated, seen, on 11th December.
1906-1907 Bushey Roughs, nr. Dover, exact numbers, and dates during this period not recorded.
1906 Sandwich, shot, no date recorded.
1900 Royal Military Canal, Hythe, shot, ‘many years ago’ (per Ticehurst 1909). Date of 1900 wholly notional.
1894

Benenden, observed, 4th November.

1890

Margate, shot, year-end, no specific date.

1885

Mereworth, observed, February.

1870

River, nr. Dover, no date recorded.

1849-1850

Dover, shot, winter, no specific date.

pre-1845

Dover, shot, no specific date, prior to 1845. Now in Dover Museum.

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