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. |
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Nether Hale Farm, first winter, 9th October. |
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Reculver, first winter, 29th September. |
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| 2012 |
Sandwich Bay, single bird trapped and ringed, 20th October. |
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Dungeness, single bird, 29th May. |
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| 2009 |
Dungeness, single bird, 13th October. |
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Dungeness, single bird, 15th September. |
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| 2008 |
Dungeness, single bird, 26th-27th October. |
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Dungeness, single bird, 25th May. |
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| 2005 |
Kingsgate, Thanet, single bird, 6th October. |
| 2004 |
Foreness, single bird, 11th October. |
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St. Margaret's, single bird, 10th October. |
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Bockhill, single bird, 26th September. |
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| 2001 |
Dungeness, single bird trapped, 5th October. |
| 1999 |
Bishopstone, single bird, 19th-20th October. |
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Dungeness, single bird, 15th October. |
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Bockhill, two birds, 13th-14th October. |
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| 1998 |
Warden Point, Sheppey, single birds on 23rd September and 9th October. |
| 1997 |
Minster, Sheppey, single bird, 24th October. |
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Warden Point, Sheppey, single bird, 22nd-24th October. |
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| 1996 | Dungeness, two birds, 6th October. |
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Chambers Wall, Reculver, adult male, 19th-23rd September. |
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Sandwich Bay, single bird, 23rd-24th September. |
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Shuart, Minnis Bay, single bird, 19th-20th September. |
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Foreness, single bird, 25th August. |
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| 1995 |
Foreness, three birds, 31st October, one remaining until 1st November. |
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Minnis Bay, male, 19th-22nd September. |
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Dungeness, first-year male in song, trapped, 2nd June. |
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| 1994 |
St. Margaret's, single bird, 2nd November. |
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Warden point, adult male, 21st-22nd September. |
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| 1993 |
St. Margaret's, two birds, occasionally seen together, 27th-31st October. |
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Minnis Bay, single bird, 18th October. |
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Bishopstone, single bird, 18th October. |
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| 1992 |
Port Regis, Kingsgate, single bird, 8th-9th October. |
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Minnis Bay, single bird, 3rd October. |
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Sandwich Bay, single birds, 20th September, and 2nd October. |
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| 1991 |
Sandwich Bay, single bird, 11th October. |
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Bishopstone, single bird, 29th September. |
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| 1989 |
Kingsgate, Thanet, single bird, 3rd October. |
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Sandwich Bay, single bird, 28th September. |
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Sandwich Bay, first-spring male, 29th May. |
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| 1988 |
Bishopstone, single bird, 18th September. |
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Dungeness, single bird, 17th September. |
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Ramsgate Cemetery, single bird, 17th September. |
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| 1987 |
Foreness, up to four birds in the area, 30th September. |
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Warden Point, Sheppey, immature or female, 1st September. |
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Warden Point, Sheppey, probably a first-summer male, 17th August. |
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| 1986 |
Sandwich Bay, single bird, 12th October. |
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Foreness, single bird, 4th October. |
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St. Margaret's, single bird, 26th-28th September. |
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Sandwich Bay, single bird, 26th September. |
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Foreness, single bird, 26th September, with another on 28th. |
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| 1985 |
Sandwich Bay, trapped, 28th October. |
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Dungeness, trapped, 16th-19th October. |
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Foreness, single bird, 16th-17th October. |
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Ramsgate Cemetery, single bird, 15th October. |
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| 1984 |
Ramsgate, single bird, 6th-10th October. |
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Foreness, single bird, 6th-7th October, with two others on 12th and 14th. |
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Sandwich Bay, first-year, 4th October, with another on 6th. |
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Dungeness, first-year trapped, 25th September. |
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Foreness, male trapped, 20th-22nd May. |
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| 1983 |
St. Margaret's, two, probably three, 2nd October. |
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Dungeness, juvenile trapped, 24th-25th September. |
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Sandwich Bay, male, 18th May. |
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| 1982 |
St. Margaret's, single bird, 24th October. |
| 1981 |
Ramsgate, single bird, 4th November. |
| 1980 |
Shellness, single bird, 11th-12th October. |
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Sandwich Bay, single bird, 1st October. |
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| 1979 |
St. Margaret's, single bird, 27th-28th October. |
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Sandwich Bay, trapped, 27th October. |
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| 1978 |
St Margaret’s, single bird, 28th October. |
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Sandwich Bay, immature trapped, 7th October. |
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Dungeness, female trapped, 27th May. |
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| 1977 |
St. Margaret's, single bird, 6th-7th October. |
| 1976 |
Dungeness, a third first-year trapped, 5th-7th October. |
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Dungeness, a second first-year trapped, 3rd-4th October. |
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Dungeness, first-year trapped, 27th September. |
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Sandwich Bay, single bird, 26th August. |
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| 1975 |
Sandwich Bay, singles daily 9th-12th October, with a minimum of three birds present, one being trapped on 9th. |
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Aycliffe, male, 29th August. |
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Sandwich Bay, May, 17th May. |
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| 1974 |
Dungeness, trapped, 17th October. |
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Sandwich Bay, trapped, 4th October. |
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Dungeness, single bird, 17th September. |
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French Street, Westerham, single bird on the unusual date of 18th July. |
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| 1973 |
Grain, immature, 13th October. |
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Seasalter, immature, 7th September. |
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Sandwich Bay, female, 11th and 14th May, probably refer to same bird. |
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| 1972 |
Shellness, Sheppey, another bird, 14th October. |
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Shellness, Sheppey, single bird, 1st October. |
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Ramsgate Cemetery, single bird, 6th September. |
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| 1971 |
Broadstairs, single bird, 29th October. |
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Dungeness, trapped, 3rd and 6th September. |
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| 1970 |
Sandwich Bay, another immature, 15th October. |
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Sandwich Bay, immature trapped, 10th-11th October. |
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Sandwich Bay, adult male, 3rd October. |
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Dungeness, female trapped, 19th May. |
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| 1969 |
Dungeness, trapped, 12th-15th October. |
| 1968 |
Dungeness, another immature, 1st November. |
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Dungeness, immature, 10th-12th September. |
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Trottiscliffe, two, including adult male, 22nd August. |
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| 1967 |
Dungeness, single bird, 12th October. |
| 1966 |
Sandwich bay, trapped, 13th October. |
| 1965 |
Sandwich Bay, single bird, 1st October. |
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Sandwich Bay, single bird, 16th September. |
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Dungeness, single bird, 4th September. |
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| 1964 |
Dungeness, first-winter trapped, 7th October. |
| 1963 |
Sandwich bay, trapped, 26th October. |
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Dungeness, trapped, 24th October. |
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| 1962 |
Dungeness, first-winter trapped, 8th October. |
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Sandwich Bay, two, one trapped, 4th October. |
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| 1960 |
Dungeness, another trapped, 21st-23rd October. |
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Dungeness, trapped, 19th-22nd October. |
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Sandwich bay, trapped, 1st October. |
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| 1959 |
Shellness, Sheppey, female, 5th-6th October. |
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East Malling, male, 24th September. |
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| 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. |
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Brookland, single bird, 6th September. |
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| 1943 |
Medhurst Row, nr. Bough Beech, single bird, 8th May. |
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