Great Reed Warbler

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Acrocephalus arundinaceus

Rare Vagrant

2023 Stodmarsh NNR, singing male, 31st May until 2nd June.
  Allhallows Marsh, singing male, 26th May until 20th June.
2020

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 2nd May.
2018

Dungeness ARC, singing male, 29th-30th May.
2014

Allhallows Marshes, singing male, 23rd May until 10th June.
 

Dungeness RSPB, singing male, 14th May.
2013

Dover, singing male, 31st May.
2007

Lydd, singing male, 10th-20th June.
2006

Sandwich Bay, in song, 15th June.
2005

Dungeness, in song, 18th May.
2004

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 2nd May.
2003

Dungeness, in song, 15th May.
2002

Grove Ferry, in song, 7th June.
1999

Dungeness, in song, 28th May; presumed same bird, 8th June.
1998

Dengemarsh, 4th-5th October.
1996

Elmley, in song, 30th May to 16th June.
1994

Elmley, in song, 12th-25th June, carrying nesting material 19th.
 

Dungeness, in song, 24th-25th May.
1993

Elmley, in song, 27th May to 3rd July.
 

Dungeness, at Boulderwall Farm, in song, 23rd May.
1992

St. Mary's Marshes, 21st May.
1982

Elmley, in song, 29th May.
1978

Stodmarsh, in song, 1st-2nd June.
 

Dungeness, 6th May.
1974

Stodmarsh, 26th May.
1973

Sandwich Bay, trapped, 5th May.
1972

Elmstone, 20th August.
 

Stodmarsh, in song, 11th June.
1971

Dungeness, 23rd August.
 

Stodmarsh, 18th May.
 

Sandwich Bay, trapped, 16th May.
1969

Dungeness, in song and trapped, 31st May to 1st June.
 

Stodmarsh, 24th May.
1965

Stodmarsh, 13th June.
1963

Dungeness, trapped, 1st June.
 

Sandwich Bay, present on 14th, and trapped on 15th May.
1962

Sandwich Bay, trapped, 19th August.
 

Sandwich Bay, present on 12th, and trapped on 13th May.
1960

Stodmarsh, in song, 30th-31st May.
1959

Dungeness, trapped, 3rd August.
1950

Stodmarsh, male, in song, 20th May to 4th June.
1881

Near Wingham, shot, 14th September, now at Canterbury museum.
1853

Sittingbourne, shot, 4th May.

No Longer Accepted

1937

Appledore, 22nd August.
1852

Near Dartford, male, shot, 8th May.
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