Remiz pendulinus

Irrefgular Vagrant.

2023 Oare Marshes, single bird, 22nd-30th April.
Dungeness RSPB, male, 2nd-3rd April.
Elmley NNR (Brick Fields), up to four birds, including those from 2022, 17th January until 30th March.
2022 Elmley NNR (Brick Fields), two birds, 10th-17th December, with one being seen again on 22nd December.
2020 Stodmarsh NNR, adult bird, 24th January.
2019 Grove Ferry, single bird, 16th and 30th November.
Grove Ferry, single bird, 21st-25th January and again 18th-25th March.
2016 Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 4th and 11th February, presumed one of January birds.
Dungeness RSPB, two birds, 6th-24th January.
2014 Dungeness RSPB, two birds including an adult male, 15th February until the 9th March. One had been ringed previously in France.
2013 Dungeness RSPB, juvenile bird joined male. Seen only on 26th October.
Dungeness, male, RSPB Reserve, 24th Oct-30th October.
Dungeness BO, single fly-over bird, 30th September.
Dungeness RSPB, adult unringed male, 20th April.
Dungeness RSPB, two immatures/females, 9th February until 10th April.
Stodmarsh NNR, male, 5th January, and again on 6th-11th February, and was joined by a female on 10th February until 6th April.
Dungeness RSPB, ringed adult male, presumed same as 2012 bird, remained until 20th April.
2012

Shuart Farm, single bird, on 8th November. Flew off in the direction of Grove Ferry, and was almost certainly one of the four seen there on the 9th.

Grove Ferry, one bird appeared-6th November, rising to four birds by 9th with one remaining until the 13th.
Oare Marshes, single bird, 30th-31st October
Dungeness RSPB, ringed adult male, presumed same as 2011 bird, 20th February until 3rd March. This individual returned in the autumn between 15th October and the year end.
2011

Dungeness RSPB, ringed adult male, presumed same as 2010 bird, 15th October until 28th December.

 

Dungeness RSPB, ringed adult male, 17th February until 21st March. Assumed same as one there in 2010.

2010

ARC pits, Dungeness, male, 23rd-27th October, and again 4th December.

 

Grove Ferry, up to three birds, 25th January until 3rd April.

 

ARC pits, Dungeness, three birds, from previous year, remained until 26th January, and reappeared again from 23rd March until 6th April.

2009

Dungeness, four birds, the first arriving on 25th October and the last on 27th

November, remained until year end.

2008

North Stream, Sandwich Bay, single bird, 13th October.

2007

Swanscombe, single bird, 29th-30th January.

2006

Grove Ferry, 9th November.

 

New Hythe GP, 4th April.

 

Stodmarsh, female, 11th-12th January.

2005

Dungeness RSPB, female/immature, 14th November.

  Pegwell Bay, juvenile, 27th October.
2004

Dungeness BO, 2 adults, 26th October.

2003

Dungeness, juvenile, 10th November.

 

Dungeness RSPB, five birds, 2 male, female, and 2 juveniles, 24th October.

2002

Dungeness BO, 2 birds (one first-winter), 23rd October.

2000

Dungeness, age uncertain, 22nd October.

1999 Dungeness RSPB, intermittently, 28th October to 29th December.
 

Dungeness, male from previous year remained until at least 14th March.

1998

Dungeness, another male, 20th November until year end.

 

Dungeness, male, 20th October.

1997

Dungeness, another unringed male [see 26th-28th October], 6th November to 19th February 1998, possibly to 14th March 1998.

 

Dungeness, ringed male and one other, 26th-28th October; male, same bird as E. Sussex.

 

New Hythe, adult male, 14th-17th March.

1996 Singleton Lake, Ashford, two males, 14th November.
  Hookers Pit, Dungeness RSPB, male, 19th-21st October.
 

Dungeness RSPB, adult and two juveniles, remained from previous year until at least 22nd March.

1995 Dungeness RSPB, adult and two juveniles, 27th October to year end.
  Dungeness BO, juvenile flew over, 19th October.
 

Dungeness RSPB, juvenile, 4th-18th March.

1994 Dungeness BO, male flew over, 1st November.
  Dungeness RSPB, male, 28th October.
  Dungeness RSPB, two birds, 7th October.
 

Dungeness RSPB, male, 4th-18th March.

1993

Dungeness, adult, 15th-16th November. Assumed same as one of 1st-6th.

 

Dungeness, juvenile, 15th-17th November. Assumed same as one of 1st-6th.

 

Dungeness, adult, two juveniles, 1st-6th November.

1991

Dungeness, female, 30th-31st October.

 

Pegwell Bay, male, 14th October.

 

Sandwich Bay, adult and first-winter, 9th-10th October, first-winter trapped, 9th.

1990

Garrington, Littlebourne, male, at nest, 21st April to 1st May.

1988

Westbere, 21st December.

 

Stodmarsh, first-year, trapped, 25th October.

 

Dungeness, female/first-year, 13th October.

1984

Stodmarsh, male, 1st-25th March, same as 1983 individual.

1983 Stodmarsh, male, 21st November.
  St. Margaret's Bay, individual flew SW, 27th October.
 

St. Margaret's Bay, individual flew SW, 17th October.

1980

Stodmarsh, male, 18th May.

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