Remiz pendulinus

Rare Vagrant, though now almost annual at Dungeness

1980

Stodmarsh, male, 18th May.

1983

St. Margaret's Bay, 17th and 27th October.

 

Stodmarsh, male, 21st November.

1984

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

1988

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

 

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

 

Westbere, 21st December.

1990

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

1991

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

 

Pegwell Bay, male, 14th October.

 

Dungeness, 30th-31st October.

1993

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

 

Dungeness, juvenile, 15th-17th November.

 

Dungeness, adult, 15th-16th November.

1994

Dungeness, five, including one male, 4th-18th March; two, 7th October; male, 28th October and 1st November.

1995

Dungeness, juvenile 13th October; juvenile, 19th October; adult and two juveniles, 27th October to 22nd March 1996.

1996

Dungeness, male, 19th-21st October.

 

Singleton Lake, Ashford, two males.

1997

New Hythe, 14th-17th March.

 

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

 

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

1998

Dungeness, male, 20th November.

 

Dungeness, another male, 20th November to 14th March 1999.

1999

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

2000

Dungeness, age uncertain, 22nd October.

2002

Dungeness BO, 2 birds flew overhead, 23rd October.

2003

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

 

Dungeness, juvenile, 10th November.

2004

Dungeness BO, 2 birds, 26th October.

2005

Dungeness, 14th November.

2006

Stodmarsh, female, 11th-12th January.

 

New Hythe GP, 4th April.

 

Grove Ferry, 9th November.

2007

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

2008

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

2009

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

November, remained until year end.

2010

ARC pits, three birds, from previous year, until 26th January, and again from 23rd March until 5th April.

 

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

 

ARC pits, three birds, 23rd March until 6th April.

 

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

2011

Dungeness RSPB, adult male, 17th February until 21st March.

 

Dungeness RSPB, adult male, presumed same, 15th October until 28th December.

2012

Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 20th February until 3rd March. This individual

returned in the autumn between 15th October and 13thNovember.

 

Oare Marshes, single bird, 30th-31st October.

 

Grove Ferry, one bird appeared6th November, rising to four birds by 9th with

one remaining until the 13th.

 

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.

2013

Stodmarsh, male, 5th January, and again on 6th-11th February, and was

joined by a female on 10th February until 6th April.

 

Dungeness RSPB, two birds, 9th February.

 

Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 10thApril.

 

Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 20th April.

 

Dungeness RSPB, single fly-over bird, 30th September.

 

Dungeness RSPB, juvenile bird, 26th October.

2014

Dungeness RSPB, two birds including and adult male, 15th February until the 9th March.

2016

Dungeness RSPB, two birds, 6th-24th January.

 

Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 4th and 11th February.

2019

Grove Ferry, single bird, 21st-25th January and again 18th-25th March.

 

Grove Ferry, single bird, 16th and 30th November.

2020 Stodmarsh NNR, adult bird, 24th January.
2022 Elmley NNR (Brickfields), two birds, 10th-17th December.
2023 Elmley NNR (Brick Fields), up to four birds, from 2022, 17th January until 1st April, with one being seen again on 22nd December.
  Dungeness RSPB, male, 2nd-3rd April.
  Oare Marshes, single bird, 22nd-30th April.

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