The first sighting in 2021 came from Bough Beech on Jan 7th, and a pair were seen displaying there on Jan 29th. There were further sightings of up to two birds on and off throughout February and March in that area. On Feb 13th a sub-adult male was seen over Goathurst Common. The only coastal records of the year came from Bockhill on Mar 13th. and Hythe on Mar 31st. On Mar 22nd one was seen over Canterbury. In April there were records from South Blean Woods on the 4th, Bough Beech on the 12th and Hadlow Place Farm on the 24th. Thereafter there were sporadic records from Bough Beech in almost every month with the last on Dec 12th.

A male was seen at Shottenden on Feb 29^th. One or two (male and female) were at Bough Beech on several dates during 1^st-16^th March. A female was seen in the Canterbury ring woods on 16^th-18^th May.

A regular male, now third-calendar year, was in Mid-Kent, paired with a second-calendar year female in the same area as 2019, but a new nest was built and the pair successfully reared two females. At a different site in Mid-Kent a juvenile male was seen on two dates in August and a juvenile female on one date in August. This area is suitable breeding habitat and clearly a pair bred here too.

Mid-Kent, a pair raised a single chick, the first record of successful breeding in the county.

Dengemarsh, single bird, 28th April.

Dungeness, single bird, 19th April.

Warden Point, single bird, 29th March.

West sector, juvenile, 23rd August.

Stodmarsh, single bird, 11thApril.

Northward Hill RSPB, single bird, 21st April.

Cliffe, North Quarry, female, 15th March.

Undisclosed site, pair, 8th March.

Sandling Park, Hythe, single bird, 9th January.

Sandwich Bay BO, one south, 15th November.

New Barn, immature female, 14th December.

Northdown Park, 31st January.

Grain, single bird, 22nd September.

Hogtrough Hill, juvenile, 19th August.

Dungeness, male, 25th May.

Hadlow, female, 10th May.

Grove Ferry, male, 16th April.

Cliffe Pools, single bird, 19th March.

Dungeness Observatory, male, 7th April.

Reculver, female, 9th February.

Dungeness Reserve, adult male, 25th October.

Reculver, adult male, 14th-15th September.

Barksore, single bird, 23rd February.

Bough Beech. Pair throughout year. Probably bred.

Boughton Park, male displaying, 13th September.

Thornden Wood, male displaying,12th April

Bough Beech, pair,  throughout year. Probably bred.

Bough Beech, seen, throughout year. Pair probably bred.

West Malling, immature taking Blackbird, 5th March.

St. Margaret's, male, 8th October.

Stodmarsh, single bird, 8th September.

Bough Beech, female, 10th April.

St. Margaret's, immature south-west, 16th March.

West recording area, site withheld, male displaying, 14th January.

Dungeness, single immature bird west, 31st October.

Seaton, single bird, 2nd November.

Foreness, single bird west, 1st April.

Conningbrook, Ashford, single bird, 26th February.

Godmersham, single bird, 8th February.

Warehorne, female, 24th April.

Shorne, single bird, 30th October.

Wye, single bird, picked up injured, 26th December.

Foreness, single bird found dead, 12th April.

Ightham, single bird taking Wood Pigeon, 5th November.

Sandwich Bay, one in off sea, 19th October.

Stodmarsh, single bird, 4th April.

St. Margaret’s, single bird, 29th October.

Reculver, female, 1st December.

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 18th October.

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 6th October.

Northward Hill, possibly same female as 1966, or earlier 1967 bird, seen on three occasions between 5th February and 4th March.

Northward Hill, female, 29th January.

High Halstow, female trapped and ringed, 20th November.

Northward Hill, 14th-21st November.

Leysdown/Capel Hill, single bird, 25th June.

Sandwich Bay, single females, 22nd April and 10th June, possibly same bird.

Same site as 1954 and 1955, female, 11th October.

Site withheld, probably same bird as December previous year, 2nd April.

Another, same site, immature, 15th December.

Site withheld, adult, 11th September.

Cowden, female, 7th October.

Fredville, adult female, shot, date unknown.

Lydd, single bird, shot, date unknown.

Swingfield Minnis, single bird, shot, date unknown.

The ornithologist Boys lists a single record prior to this year, though no further details are known.