Falco vespertinus

Uncommon Vagrant

1862

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

1907

Nr. Gravesend, adult male, 28th April.

1959

Lydd-on-Sea, 28th May.

1960

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

1962

Dungeness, female, 17th April.

 

Sevenoaks, female, 8th June.

1963

Dungeness, female, 9th to 22nd June.

1964

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

 

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

1970

Sandwich Bay, male 26th May.

 

Reculver, male, 14th to 17th and 21st June.

1971

Sevenoaks, male, 29th April.

1973

Sandwich Bay, female, 26th May.

 

Dungeness, female, 26th-28th May.

 

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

1974

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

 

Dungeness, immature female, 7th to 14th June.

1977

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

1978

Sandwich Bay, female, 1st June.

1978

Dungeness, male, 14th June.

1979

Stodmarsh, male, 28th June.

1980

St. Margaret's Bay, male, 3rd May.

1982

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

 

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

1983

Margate, male, 14th May.

1985

Dungeness, male, 20th April.

 

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

1987

Stodmarsh, first-summer male, 25th April.

 

Pegwell Bay, female, 2nd May.

 

Foreness, female, 27th May.

 

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

 

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

 

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

1988

Sandwich Bay, female, 20th June.

 

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

 

Old Romney, juvenile, 30th October.

1989

Warehorne, female, 9th May.

 

Brookland, first-summer female, 12th to 14th May.

 

Dungeness, male, 21st May.

 

Oare, female, 22nd May.

1990

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

1992

Rushenden, first-summer male, 14th May.

 

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

 

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

 

Northbourne, first-summer male, 23rd May.

 

Sandwich Bay, female, 3rd June.

 

Sandwich Bay, male, 10th June.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

1993

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

1994

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

1995

Dungeness, female, 10th May.

1997

Stodmarsh, male, 5th May.

 

Dungeness, male, 22nd July.

1998

Dungeness, first-summer male, 31st May.

1999

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

 

Deal, female, 9th to 10th July.

2000

Stodmarsh, female, 10th to 14th May.

 

Collard's Lake, female, 11th to 14th May.

2001

St. Margaret's Bay, first-summer male, 12th May.

 

Lydd Ranges, adult male, 12th May.

2003

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

 

Dungeness, first-summer male, 31st May.

 

Eastborough, first-summer male, 1st June.

 

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

 

Bockhill, adult male, north, 15th June.

 

Cliffe, adult male, 15th June.

2004

Grove Ferry, adult male, 24th April.

2007

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

 

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

2008

Swale NNR, female on seawall, 8th May.

 

Northwood Hill RSPB, adult male, 9th May.

 

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

 

Grove Ferry, adult male, 24th May.

 

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

2009

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

2010

Whetsted GP, single bird, 12th June.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 22nd June.

2011

Walland Marsh, single bird, 12th May.

2015

Worth Marshes, juvenile bird, 23rd September.

2017

Worth Marshes, single male, 20th June.

 

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

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

No Longer Accepted

1895

Dungeness, male, August.

1908

Nr. Ashford, adult female, 10th June.

1932

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

1976

Dungeness, male, 30th May.

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