Ficedula parva

Scarce autumn migrant; very rare in spring

2025 Reculver, single bird, 16th October.
Oare Marshes, single bird, 8th October.
Worth Marshes RSPB, single bird, 29th September.
2024 Kingsgate, single bird, 12th October.
  Kingsdown, first-year bird, 5th October.
  Sandwich Bay, first year, trapped and ringed, 17th–18th September.
2022 Dungeness BO, single bird, 6th October.
  Leysdown-on-Sea, first-year bird, 25th September.
  Dungeness BO, female, 13t April. The earliest ever record for Kent.
2021 Dungeness BO, 1st year bird, trapped and ringed, 20th November.
2018

Shellness, single bird, 7th October.

2015

Samphire Hoe, single bird, 20th October.

2014

Reculver, single bird, 11th September.

2013

Dungeness BO, first winter, 15th October.

 

Nether Hale Farm, first winter, 9th October.

 

Reculver, first winter, 29th September.

2012

Sandwich Bay, single bird trapped and ringed, 20th October.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 29th May.

2009

Dungeness, single bird, 13th October.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 15th September.

2008

Dungeness, single bird, 26th-27th October.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 25th May.

2005

Kingsgate, Thanet, single bird, 6th October.

2004

Foreness, single bird, 11th October.

 

St. Margaret's, single bird, 10th October.

 

Bockhill, single bird, 26th September.

2001

Dungeness, single bird trapped, 5th October.

1999

Bishopstone, single bird, 19th-20th October.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 15th October.

 

Bockhill, two birds, 13th-14th October.

1998

Warden Point, Sheppey, single birds on 23rd September and 9th October.

1997

Minster, Sheppey, single bird, 24th October.

 

Warden Point, Sheppey, single bird, 22nd-24th October.

1996 Dungeness, two birds, 6th October.
 

Chambers Wall, Reculver, adult male, 19th-23rd September.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 23rd-24th September.

 

Shuart, Minnis Bay, single bird, 19th-20th September.

 

Foreness, single bird, 25th August.

1995

Foreness, three birds, 31st October, one remaining until 1st November.

 

Minnis Bay, male, 19th-22nd September.

 

Dungeness, first-year male in song, trapped, 2nd June.

1994

St. Margaret's, single bird, 2nd November.

 

Warden point, adult male, 21st-22nd September.

1993

St. Margaret's, two birds, occasionally seen together, 27th-31st October.

 

Minnis Bay, single bird, 18th October.

 

Bishopstone, single bird, 18th October.

1992

Port Regis, Kingsgate, single bird, 8th-9th October.

 

Minnis Bay, single bird, 3rd October.

 

Sandwich Bay, single birds, 20th September, and 2nd October.

1991

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 11th October.

 

Bishopstone, single bird, 29th September.

1989

Kingsgate, Thanet, single bird, 3rd October.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 28th September.

 

Sandwich Bay, first-spring male, 29th May.

1988

Bishopstone, single bird, 18th September.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 17th September.

 

Ramsgate Cemetery, single bird, 17th September.

1987

Foreness, up to four birds in the area, 30th September.

 

Warden Point, Sheppey, immature or female, 1st September.

 

Warden Point, Sheppey, probably a first-summer male, 17th August.

1986

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 12th October.

 

Foreness, single bird, 4th October.

 

St. Margaret's, single bird, 26th-28th September.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 26th September.

 

Foreness, single bird, 26th September, with another on 28th.

1985

Sandwich Bay, trapped, 28th October.

 

Dungeness, trapped, 16th-19th October.

 

Foreness, single bird, 16th-17th October.

 

Ramsgate Cemetery, single bird, 15th October.

1984

Ramsgate, single bird, 6th-10th October.

 

Foreness, single bird, 6th-7th October, with two others on 12th and 14th.

 

Sandwich Bay, first-year, 4th October, with another on 6th.

 

Dungeness, first-year trapped, 25th September.

 

Foreness, male trapped, 20th-22nd May.

1983

St. Margaret's, two, probably three, 2nd October.

 

Dungeness, juvenile trapped, 24th-25th September.

 

Sandwich Bay, male, 18th May.

1982

St. Margaret's, single bird, 24th October.

1981

Ramsgate, single bird, 4th November.

1980

Shellness, single bird, 11th-12th October.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 1st October.

1979

St. Margaret's, single bird, 27th-28th October.

 

Sandwich Bay, trapped, 27th October.

1978

St Margaret’s, single bird, 28th October.

 

Sandwich Bay, immature trapped, 7th October.

 

Dungeness, female trapped, 27th May.

1977

St. Margaret's, single bird, 6th-7th October.

1976

Dungeness, a third first-year trapped, 5th-7th October.

 

Dungeness, a second first-year trapped, 3rd-4th October.

 

Dungeness, first-year trapped, 27th September.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 26th August.

1975

Sandwich Bay, singles daily 9th-12th October, with a minimum of three birds present, one being trapped on 9th.

 

Aycliffe, male, 29th August.

 

Sandwich Bay, May, 17th May.

1974

Dungeness, trapped, 17th October.

 

Sandwich Bay, trapped, 4th October.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 17th September.

 

French Street, Westerham, single bird on the unusual date of 18th July.

1973

Grain, immature, 13th October.

 

Seasalter, immature, 7th September.

 

Sandwich Bay, female, 11th and 14th May, probably refer to same bird.

1972

Shellness, Sheppey, another bird, 14th October.

 

Shellness, Sheppey, single bird, 1st October.

 

Ramsgate Cemetery, single bird, 6th September.

1971

Broadstairs, single bird, 29th October.

 

Dungeness, trapped, 3rd and 6th September.

1970

Sandwich Bay, another immature, 15th October.

 

Sandwich Bay, immature trapped, 10th-11th October.

 

Sandwich Bay, adult male, 3rd October.

 

Dungeness, female trapped, 19th May.

1969

Dungeness, trapped, 12th-15th October.

1968

Dungeness, another immature, 1st November.

 

Dungeness, immature, 10th-12th September.

 

Trottiscliffe, two, including adult male, 22nd August.

1967

Dungeness, single bird, 12th October.

1966

Sandwich bay, trapped, 13th October.

1965

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 1st October.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 16th September.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 4th September.

1964

Dungeness, first-winter trapped, 7th October.

1963

Sandwich bay, trapped, 26th October.

 

Dungeness, trapped, 24th October.

1962

Dungeness, first-winter trapped, 8th October.

 

Sandwich Bay, two, one trapped, 4th October.

1960

Dungeness, another trapped, 21st-23rd October.

 

Dungeness, trapped, 19th-22nd October.

 

Sandwich bay, trapped, 1st October.

1959

Shellness, Sheppey, female, 5th-6th October.

 

East Malling, male, 24th September.

1958

Allhallows, male, 17th September.

1954

Dungeness, adult female trapped, 24th October.

1953

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 3rd October.

1951

Herne Bay, pair seen on 11th September, with the female remaining until 13th.

 

Brookland, single bird, 6th September.

1943

Medhurst Row, nr. Bough Beech, single bird, 8th May.

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