Emberiza hortulana

Rare Vagrant

2023 Stonar, sound-recorded at 00.04hrs, 15th September.
2020 Sandwich Bay, single bird was sound recorded on the night of 17th September.
  Stonar, sound-recorded at 00.35hrs, 16th August.
2019

Stonar Lake, a nocmig audio recording of a bird was taken, and later verified, at 02.30hrs on 27th August.

2018

Dungeness BO, single bird, 14th September.

 

Pegwell Bay, single bird flew North, 13th September.

 

Worth Marsh, single bird, 13th September.

 

Sandwich, nocturnal movements of this species were monitored by nocmig audio recordings on the night of 28th-29th August, with probably six birds being involved. All recordings were independently verified. One was on 28th 23.45hrs, others on 29th between 00.15 and 02.57hrs.

2015

Dungeness, single bird, 10th September.

2014 Langdon, single bird, 17th September, and that or another, was present there on the 22nd.
 

Reculver, single bird, 28th August.

2012

Dungeness, single bird, 30th April.

2005

North Foreland, one male bird, 26th May.

2003

Bockhill, single bird, 6th September.

2002

Dungeness BO, single bird, 9th September.

2001

North Foreland, one juvenile bird, 15th August.

2000

Reculver, one juvenile, 27th August.

1999

St Margaret’s Bay, single bird, 12th September.

 

Bockhill, single bird, 12th September.

 

Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 4th-11th September.

 

Bockhill, single bird, present 29th-30th August.

1998

Dungeness BO, single bird, 27th August.

1997

Minnis Bay/Reculver, single bird, 7th September.

1996

St. Margaret’s, single bird, 23rd September.

 

St. Margaret’s, single bird, 20th September.

 

Abbotscliffe, single bird, 15th September, being relocated at Capel-le-Ferne on 21st.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 15th September.

 

North Foreland, one adult male, 23rd April.

 

St. Margaret’s, one adult male, 22nd April.

1995

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 25th September.

 

St. Margaret’s, single bird, 17th-21st September.

 

Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 16th September.

 

Bockhill, single bird, 13th September.

1994

Monkton NR, single bird, 18th September.

1993

Dungeness, single bird, 30th September.

 

Langdon, single bird, 12th September.

 

Foreness, female bird, 12th-16th May.

1992

St. Margaret’s, first-winter bird, 19th September.

1991

Dungeness, single bird, 9th September

 

Wierton Hill Farm, adult, 26th August.

1990

St. Margaret’s, single bird, 31st October.

 

Reculver, single bird, 16th September.

1989

Dungeness, single bird, 2nd September.

 

Foreness, single bird, 9th May.

1988

Dungeness, single bird, 23rd October.

 

Minnis Bay, single bird, 9th September.

1987

Foreness, one first-winter, 10th November.

 

Lydd, one first-winter, 4th October.

 

Bishopstone, one immature, 30th August.

 

Foreness, one male, 16th May.

 

Foreness, one female, 9th May.

1986

Dungeness, two males, 4th-5th May.

1985

Margate, one female and an immature, 23rd October.

 

Minnis Bay, one female, 10th September.

 

North Foreland, one male, 6th May.

1984

Dungeness RSPB, first-summer male, 22nd April.

1983

Dungeness, one male, 6th May.

1981

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

1980

Sandwich Bay, two birds, 24th September.

 

Dungeness, a further male and female, 8th May.

 

Dungeness, two males and two females, 5th May.

1979

Dungeness, adult bird, 30th September.

1978

Dungeness, one of two males present was trapped, 3rd May.

1977

Dungeness, single bird, 31st August.

 

Dungeness, male trapped, 30th August.

1975

Sandwich Bay, two additional birds 28th May.

 

Sandwich Bay, two birds, 26th-28th May.

 

Dungeness, male and female, 19th May.

 

Dungeness, female, 16th May.

1974

Herne, single bird, 9th November.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 16th September.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 12th September.

 

Dungeness, two males, 10th May.

1972

Reculver, two males, 1st May.

1968

Dungeness, single bird, 5th October.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 15th September.

1965

Dungeness, immature bird, 25th September.

1964

Dungeness, first-winter bird, 3rd-4th September.

1963

Sandwich, single bird, 13th-14th September.

1962

Dungeness, immature bird, 4th October.

1961

Dungeness BO, first-winter bird, trapped, 16th September.

1959

Lower Hope Pools, male, 26th October.

1957

Dungeness, single bird, seen and heard, 30th October.

 

Dungeness, single bird trapped, 25th September.

1956

Dungeness, three birds total, two trapped, 2nd September.

1955

Sandwich Bay, first winter male, 6th September.

1954

Dungeness, adult female or immature male, 3rd October.

1946

Fairfield, Walland Marsh, male bird, 10th May.

1922 Dover cliffs, one shot. Included in Guy Mannering collection.
1874

Dover, single bird caught, 14th September. Was in the Prentis Collection.

1866

Cobham, single bird, 10th April.

No Longer Accepted

1957 Leybourne, three (male & two females), 1st December.

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