Falco vespertinus

Uncommon Vagrant

2025 Elmley NNR, second-year male, 14th-22nd September.
Golden Green, Hadlow, first-year male, 11th June.
Dungeness RSPB, female, 22nd-25th May.
Langdon Bay, female, 16th May.
  Stodmarsh/Grove Ferry, female, 11th-20th May.
2024 Elmley NNR, juvenile bird, 15th-26th September.
  Worth Marshes, male, 8th August.
  Worth Marshes, up to three female birds, 23rd-29th May.
  Langdon Cliffs, female, 23rd May.
  Worth Marshes, male, 18th-19th May.
  Stodmarsh NNR, female, 10th-12th May.
2023 South Foreland, juvenile, 23rd September.
  Dungeness, first summer male, 20th-22nd June.
  Worth Marshes, female, 16th June.
  Stodmarsh NNR, female, 4th-16th May.
2022 Elmley NNR, juvenile, 3rd-9th October.
  Graveney Marshes, juvenile, 14th-15th September.
  Worth Marshes, female, 27th May until 4th June.
2021 Worth Marshes, adult female, 6th-26th June.
  Collard's Lake, adult male, 24th May.
2020 Kingsdown, first-summer male, 29th July.
  Sandwich Bay, female, 11th June.
  Dengemarsh, first-summer male, 9th-12th June.
  Lydd Ranges, first-summer female, 5th June.
  Stodmarsh NNR, first-summer male, 3rd-7th June.
  Oare Marshes, first-summer male, 3rd June.
  Worth Marshes, adult male, 1st June. This meant there were 3 birds briefly in the area, remaining in the Sandwich Bay area until 7th June.
  Oare Marshes, first-summer female, 20th May.
  Worth Marshes, first-summer male, 23rd May until 13th June.
  Worth Marshes, female, 19th May until 2nd June.
  Stodmarsh NNR, first-summer female, 29th May until 17th June.
  Stodmarsh NNR, female, present on 17th May.
  Stodmarsh NNR, adult male, 1st-7th May, was joined by a second adult male on the 7th.
2017

Grove Ferry, first-summer male, probably same as at Worth, 25th June until 2nd July.

 

Worth Marshes, single male, 20th June.

2015

Worth Marshes, juvenile bird, 23rd September.

2011

Walland Marsh, first summer male, 12th May.

2010 Dungeness RSPB reserve, another first summer male, 17th-26th June.
 

Dungeness RSPB reserve, first summer male, 30th May-7th June.

 

Whetsted GP, single bird, 12th June.

2009

Sandwich Bay, female, flew SE, at Backsand Scrape, 26th August.

2008

Collard's Lake/Stodmarsh area, adult female, 1st-9th June.

 

Grove Ferry, adult male, 24th May.

 

Sandwich Bay BO, adult male, at Backsand Scrape, 9th May.

 

Northward Hill RSPB, adult male, 9th May.

 

Swale NNR, female on seawall, 8th May.

2007

Sandwich Bay, adult female flew south, 5th August.

 

Dungeness RSPB, first summer male, 3rd-5th May.

2004

Grove Ferry, adult male, 24th April.

2003

Cliffe, adult male, 15th June.

 

Kingsdown, adult male, north, 15th June.

 

Capel Fleet area, first summer male, 6th-12th June.

 

Eastborough, first-summer male, 1st June.

 

Dungeness, first-summer male, 31st May.

 

Stodmarsh Hill/Collards Lake, first-summer male, 31st May.

2001

Lydd Ranges, adult male, 12th May.

 

Bockhill, St. Margaret's-at Cliffe, first-summer male, 12th May.

2000

Collard's Lake, female, 14th May.

 

Stodmarsh, female, 10th to 14th May.

1999

Deal, female, 9th to 10th July.

 

St. Margaret's, male, 20th May.

1998

Dungeness, first-summer male, 31st May.

1997

Dungeness, male, 22nd July.

 

Stodmarsh, male, 5th May.

1995

Dungeness, female, 10th May.

1994

Stodmarsh, first-summer female, 9th to 11th May.

1993

St. Margaret's, female, 29th June.

1992

Dungeness, first-summer male, 7th to 9th September.

 

Sandwich Bay, male, age uncertain, 25th June.

 

Sandwich Bay, female, age uncertain, 15th June.

 

St. Margaret's Bay, female, 15th June.

 

Sandwich Bay, male, 10th June.

 

Sandwich Bay, female, 3rd June.

 

Northbourne, first-summer male, 23rd May.

 

Stodmarsh, at least seven: female, 20th May, at least two females 22nd May, three first-summer males, three females, 23rd to 25th, male, age uncertain, 27th, presumed one of same, male, age uncertain, 10th June, presumed additional.

 

Minnis Bay, first-summer male, 14th May.

 

Rushenden, first-summer male, 14th May.

1990

St Margaret's Bay, male, 27th June.

1989

Oare, female, 22nd May.

 

Dungeness, male in-off sea, 21st May.

 

Brookland, first-year male, 12th to 14th June.

 

Warehorne, female, 9th May.

1988

Between Old Romney and Lydd, juvenile, 30th October.

 

Ash, female, injured and taken into care, about 23rd July.

 

Sandwich Bay, female, 20th June.

1987

St. Margaret's, male, 19th September.

 

Capel Fleet and Elmley area, first-summer male, 14th to 15th August.

 

Walland Marsh and Dungeness area, first-summer male, 2nd to 6th July.

 

Foreness, female, 27th May.

 

Pegwell Bay, female, 2nd May.

 

Stodmarsh, first-summer male, 25th April.

1985

Stour Valley, first-summer male, 30th May.

 

Dungeness, male, 20th April.

1983

Margate, male, 14th May.

1982

Throwley, nr. Faversham, first-summer male, 29th May.

 

Sandwich Bay, female, 19th to 29th May.

1980

St. Margaret's Bay, male in-off sea, 3rd May.

1979

Stodmarsh, male, 28th June.

1978

Dungeness RSPB, male, 14th June.

 

Sandwich Bay, female, 1st June.

1977

Stodmarsh, immature and a sub-adult, 29th May.

1974

Dungeness, immature female, 7th to 13th June.

 

Sandwich Bay, male, first summer male, 1st to 14th June.

1973

Harty, Isle of Sheppey, immature, 18th to 19th August.

 

Dungeness, female, 26th May.

 

Sandwich Bay, female, 26th May.

1971

Sevenoaks, male, 29th April.

1970

Reculver, male, 13th to 16th and 21st June.

 

Sandwich Bay, male 26th May.

1964

Sandwich Bay, another immature 21st to 27th June and 4th to 10th July.

 

Sandwich Bay, immature, 23rd to 30th May.

1963

Dungeness, female, 9th to 22nd June.

1962

Sevenoaks, female, 8th June.

 

Dungeness, female, 17th April.

1960

Nr. Deal, first-summer male, 6th July.

1959

Lydd-on-Sea, female, 28th May.

1907

Nr. Gravesend, adult male, 28th April.

1862

Sandling Park, nr. Hythe, adult female, summer.

No Longer Accepted

1976

Dungeness, male, 30th May.

1932

Beckenham, 20th May. No longer in modern Kent.

1908

Nr. Ashford, adult female, 10th June.

1895

Dungeness, male, August.

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