Aythya nyroca

Rare Vagrant and occasional escape

2024 Whetsted Pits, second year male, present 6th-24th April.
2008

Westbere Lakes, male, 29th December.

2007

New Hythe, same bird moulted into adult plumage, remained until 12th March, with presumably the same returning briefly on 27th July.

2006

New Hythe, same bird as 2005, remained until 18th March, with perhaps the same bird returning to Leybourne/Snodland area from 11th October until 22nd December.

2005

New Hythe, first winter, 11th December to year end.

2003

Abbey Meads Lake, New Hythe, adult female, 19th December.

1999

Stodmarsh, male, 24th January, presumed same bird as Eastwell and Seaton.

 

Seaton Gravel Pits, male, 9th-10th January, presumed same bird as Eastwell Lake.

 

Eastwell Lake, male, 1st-3rd January, also seen at Conningbrook Lake on the 2nd.

1998

Ham Road Pits, male, 17th December.

1996

New Hythe Lakes, female, 28th December to 28th January 1997.

 

Thanington Lakes, Canterbury, male, 18th February.

1995

Boughton Park and Weirton Hill Farm, seen 2nd-11th November, then 15th November, and finally 2nd December.

 

Mosco Pool, Grain, adult female, 30th July to 4th August, presumed same bird as earlier record.

 

Mosco Pool, Grain, adult female, 6th February to 4th March.

1987

Dungeness RSPB, eclipse male, 30th July to 30th August.

1981

Dungeness RSPB, immature, 12th-16th November.

 

Dungeness RSPB, female, 26th April to 9th May.

 

Bough Beech Reservoir, male, 27th March to 7th April.

 

Chilham Lakes, male, 17th January to 8th March. Also seen at Seaton.

1980

Dungeness RSPB, male, seen on various pits in the area, 27th January to 22nd May.

1979

Bough Beech Reservoir, male, 23rd October.

 

Murston Pits, pair, 3rd February.

 

Otford, male, 13th January.

 

Stodmarsh, male, 13th January.

1978

Stonar Lake, Sandwich, male, 27th July.

 

Sevenoaks Wildfowl Reserve, two males, 3rd-7th July. One remained until 7th December.

 

Grain, male, 3rd January.

1974

Bough Beech Reservoir, adult male, 3rd November.

1967

Stodmarsh, 18th August.

1960

Dungeness, first-winter male, 8th November to 4th December.

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