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1943

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

1951

Brookland, single bird, 6th September.

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

1953

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 3rd October.

1954

Dungeness, adult female trapped, 24th October.

1958

Allhallows, male, 17th September.

1959

East Malling, male, 24th September.

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

1960

Sandwich bay, trapped, 1st October.

Dungeness, trapped, 19th-22nd October.

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

1962

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

Dungeness, first-winter trapped, 8th October.

1963

Dungeness, trapped, 24th October.

Sandwich bay, trapped, 26th October.

1964

Dungeness, first-winter trapped, 7th October.

1965

Dungeness, single bird, 4th September.

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 16th September.

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 1st October.

1966

Sandwich bay, trapped, 13th October.

1967

Dungeness, single bird, 12th October.

1968

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

Dungeness, immature, 10th-12th September.

Dungeness, another immature, 1st November.

1969

Dungeness, trapped, 12th-15th October.

1970

Dungeness, female trapped, 19th May.

Sandwich Bay, adult male, 3rd October.

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

Sandwich Bay, another immature, 15th October.

1971

Dungeness, trapped, 3rd and 6th September.

Broadstairs, single bird, 29th October.

1972

Ramsgate Cemetery, single bird, 6th September.

Shellness, Sheppey, single bird, 1st October.

Shellness, Sheppey, another bird, 14th October.

1973

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

Seasalter, immature, 7th September.

Grain, immature, 13th October.

1974

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

Dungeness, single bird, 17th September.

Sandwich Bay, trapped, 4th October.

Dungeness, trapped, 17th October.

1975

Sandwich Bay, May, 17th May.

Aycliffe, male, 29th August.

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

1976

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 26th August.

Dungeness, first-year trapped, 27th September.

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

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

1977

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

1978

Dungeness, female trapped, 27th May.

Sandwich Bay, immature trapped, 7th October.

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

1979

Sandwich Bay, trapped, 27th October.

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

1980

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 1st October.

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

1981

Ramsgate, single bird, 4th November.

1982

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

1983

Sandwich Bay, male, 18th May.

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

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

1984

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

Dungeness, first-year trapped, 25th September.

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

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

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

1985

Ramsgate Cemetery, single bird, 15th October.

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

Dungeness, trapped, 16th-19th October.

Sandwich Bay, trapped, 28th October.

1986

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

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 26th September.

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

Foreness, single bird, 4th October.

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 12th October.

1987

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

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

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

1988

Ramsgate Cemetery, single bird, 17th September.

Dungeness, single bird, 17th September.

Bishopstone, single bird, 18th September.

1989

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

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 28th September.

Kingsgate, Thanet, single bird, 3rd October.

1991

Bishopstone, single bird, 29th September.

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 11th October.

1992

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

Minnis Bay, single bird, 3rd October.

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

1993

Bishopstone, single bird, 18th October.

Minnis Bay, single bird, 18th October.

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

1994

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

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

1995

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

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

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

1996

Foreness, single bird, 25th August.

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

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

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

1997

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

Minster, Sheppey, single bird, 24th October.

1998

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

1999

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

Dungeness, single bird, 15th October.

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

2001

Dungeness, single bird trapped, 5th October.

2004

Bockhill, single bird, 26th September.

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

Foreness, single bird, 11th October.

2005

Kingsgate, Thanet, single bird, 6th October.

2008

Dungeness, single bird, 25th May.

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

2009

Dungeness, single bird, 15th September.

Dungeness, single bird, 13th October.

2012

Dungeness, single bird, 29th May.

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

2013

Reculver, first winter, 29th September.

Nether Hale Farm, first winter, 9th October.

Dungeness BO, first winter, 15th October.

2014

Reculver, single bird, 11th September.

2015

Samphire Hoe, single bird, 20th October.

2018

Shellness, single bird, 7th October.