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Rare Vagrant

1978	Stodmarsh, 13th-24th May. This constitutes the first record for Britain.
1984	Warden Point, Sheppey, 14th-16th November.
1998	Cliffe, 25th May.
2001	Dungeness, 31st October.
2004	Bockhill, 15th October.
	Walmer, 17th October.
2006	New Romney, juvenile, moribund, 26th October.
2010	Dungeness RSPB, 29th-31st March.
2011	Dungeness, one at N end of Long Pits on 5th April, and again over the adjacent RSPB Reserve on the 6th.
2013	Foreness, single bird, 21st October, and again from 23rd-24th. This bird was joined by another on the 26th, and a third on the 27th, when all three were photographed. One remained until the 28th.
2018	Foreness, single bird, 3rd-4th November.
	Reculver, single bird, 12th November.
	Foreness, two birds, 13th November.
2020	Whiteness (Thanet), juvenile bird, 5th October.
2022	Foreness, a single bird on 24th October, seen later the same day at North Foreland, and presumably returning from 26th-27th.
	Tankerton/Swalecliffe/Whitstable, single bird ranged widely, 1st-4th November.

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