Phalaropus lobatus

Rare Spring and Autumn Migrant

Prior to 1844

Romney Marsh, shot, no date given.

1861

Dover, no date given.

1867

Elmley, immature, shot, November.

ca.1871

Isle of Grain, immature, shot, 26th September. Thought to be from this year. Now in British Museum (Natural History).

 

Rainham fleets, immature female, shot, 28th September.

1905

Oppen Pits, Dungeness, adult pair, shot, May.

1906

Oppen Pits, Dungeness, adult male, shot, 1st May.

1908

Cheyne Court Farm, Walland Marsh, single bird, 8th June.

1915

Sturry, shot, 10th November.

1936

Hoo, single bird, 1st November.

1939

Sheppey, single bird, 30th August.

1952

Dungeness, single bird, 26th October.

1957

The Brooks, Dungeness, single bird, 4th October.

1959

Minnis Bay, juvenile, 30th August.

1962

Grove, two birds, 26th June.

1963

Walland Marsh, single bird, 30th August.

1964

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 9th-10th and 15th August.

1965

The Wicks, Dungeness, single bird, 28th August.

1966

Sandwich Bay, single bird, on 21st August.

1967

Cliffe Pools, single bird, on 28th August.

1968

Windmill Creek, single bird, 3rd August.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 28th-29th September.

1975

Sandwich Bay, summer plumage female, 26th-30th May.

1976

Pegwell Bay, single bird, 6th and 8th November.

1977

Bough Beech, single bird, photographed, 19th-20th August.

1979

Cliffe Pools, single bird, 19th August.

1980

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 9th August.

1981

Elmley, single birds on 28th June to 3rd July, 10th August, and 30th August to 12th September.

 

Dungeness Pits, single birds on 17th August and 5th September.

 

Dover, injured bird, 11th October.

1982

Dungeness, single bird, 3rd May.

 

Elmley, single bird, 5th-11th September.

 

Dungeness Pits, single bird, 5th-6th October.

1983

Cliffe Pools, juvenile, 22nd-30th August.

1984

Elmley, 1-3 birds from 1st-9th August, with maximum of 4 birds on 3rd.

 

Stoke Lagoon, single bird, 18th-19th August.

1985

Elmley, single birds on 21st-26th June, 28th September to 7th October, with two birds on 8th October.

1986

Yantlet Creek, single bird, 30th May.

1987

Elmley, single bird, 18th-26th September.

1988

Cliffe Pools, single bird, 22nd June.

 

Bough Beech, single bird, 30th August.

1989

Cliffe Pools, single bird, 7th-8th June.

 

Nr. New Romney, single bird, 31st August to 13th September.

 

Dungeness Reserve, single bird, 21st-24th September.

1990

Elmley, single bird, 14th June.

1991

Oare, single bird, 3rd-5th June.

 

Cliffe Pools, juvenile, 15th August.

1992

Cliffe Pools, transitional adult, 19th-26th August.

 

Stodmarsh, transitional adult, 21st-25th August.

 

Bough Beech, juvenile, 27th August.

 

Stodmarsh, juvenile, 4th-5th September.

 

Cliffe Pools, juvenile, 9th and 11th September.

1993

ARC Pits, Dungeness, first-year bird, 3rd-20th October.

1994

Swale NNR, single bird, 16th August.

 

Elmley, single bird, 25th August to 2nd September.

1995

Cliffe Pools, juvenile, 7th-16th September.

1996

Pegwell Bay, single bird, 14th September.

 

Fairfields, Upstreet, juvenile, 21st-28th September.

1997

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 18th-22nd September, with another, 30th September to 3rd October.

1998

Swale NNR, moulting male, 4th May.

 

Cliffe Pools, female, 17th-23rd July.

1999

Grove Ferry, juvenile, 11th-15th August.

 

Cliffe Quarries, juvenile, 22nd-23rd August.

 

Elmley Reserve, juvenile, 25th August to 2nd September.

 

Oare Marshes, juvenile, 27th August, presumed Elmley bird.

 

Swale NNR, juvenile, 28th August to 1st September, presumed Elmley bird.

 

Elmley Reserve, juvenile, 14th-26th September.

 

Hoo Peninsula, juvenile, 15th-20th September.

 

Dungeness Reserve, two juveniles, 30th September.

2000

Elmley NNR and RSPB, female, 2nd-20th July.

 

Oare, two juveniles, 20th-22nd September.

2001

Cliffe Pools, moulted adult, 15th-20th August.

 

Oare, 9th September.

 

Reculver, 11th-16th September.

 

Lade, 20th-24th September.

2002

Oare, juvenile, 9th September.

2003

New Downs Pool, Sandwich Bay, 14th September.

2004

Swale NNR, male, 23rd May.

 

Oare Marshes, male, 23rd-27th May to 4th August, presumed same bird as at Swale.

2005

Oare, female, 16th-18th May.

 

Elmley, adult, 23rd July to 4th August.

2006

Oare Marshes, single bird, 3rd August.

2007

Chetney, adult female, 12th-17th August.

2008

Northward Hill RSPB, juvenile, 26th September.

 

Dungeness, juvenile, offshore, 7th October.

2009

Dungeness, ARC pits, adult, 19th July.

2010

Elmley, single bird, 12th May.

2014

Cliffe Pools, moulting adult, 26th August.

 

Dungeness RSPB, first winter bird, 27th-30th August.

 

Oare Marshes, single bird, 5th September.

 

Cliffe Pools, single bird, 11th September.

2015

Leysdown, single bird, 30th May.

   

2016

Cliffe Pools, single bird, 29th May.

 

Lade/ARC Pits, juvenile bird, 2nd-3rd September, and at Dungeness RSPB from 3rd-4th September.

2017

Oare Marshes, juvenile, 30th August until 1st September.

 

Scotney Court GP, first-winter, 13th September

 

Garage Pool, Pegwell Bay, first-winter, 13th-17th September

2018

Oare Marshes, moulting adult, 28th July to 8th August.

2020 Burmarsh, juvenile bird, 29th November to 4th December.
2021 Stodmarsh NNR, juvenile, 26th August.
2022 Elmley NNR, adult female, 13th June.
  Dungeness RSPB, juvenile bird, 2nd September.
  Worth Marshes, juvenile bird, 14th September.
  Dungeness, juvenile, on the sea, 20th-21st December.
2023 Sandwich Bay, single bird, 27th and 30th June.
2024 Lade Pits, single bird, 6th September.

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