Hirundo daurica

Uncommon Passage Vagrant

2025 Worth Marshes RSPB, single bird, 28th September.
South Foreland, single bird, 1st May.
North Foreland, single bird, 22nd April.
  Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 13th April.
2024 South Foreland, single bird, 7th May.
  Worth Marshes, single bird, 23rd-25th April.
2023 Worth Marshes, single bird, 29th May.
  North Foreland, single bird flew south, 10th April.
  South Foreland, single bird flew south, 19th March.
2022 Pegwell Bay, single bird, 18th November.
  Kingsdown, two birds, 17th November.
  Sandown Castle, Deal, single bird, 10th-11th November.
  Foreness, two birds, 5th-11th November.
  South Foreland, single bird, 21st May.
  Shuart (Reculver), single bird flew west, 21st May.
  Sevenoaks WR, single bird, 10th-11th May.
2021 Samphire Hoe, single bird, 11th May.
  New Hythe, single bird, 3rd May.
  Dengemarsh, single bird, 26th April.
  Westbere, single bird taken into care but later died, 13th April.
  Hoo St. Werburgh, two birds, 7th April, with one bird remaining until the following day.
2020 Dengemarsh, single bird, 29th May.
  North Foreland, single bird flew north, 2nd May.
  Chartham, single bird, 28th April.
  Dungeness Point, single bird flew past on 23rd April.
  Dengemarsh, single bird, 18th April.
  Dengemarsh, single bird, 10th April.
2019

Bough Beech, single bird, 25th May.

 

Reculver Marshes, single bird flew west, 2nd May.

 

Sandwich Bay, two birds, 1st May.

 

Stodmarsh, single bird, 14th-15th April.

2018

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 27th October.

 

Kingsdown, two birds, 24th May. Also seen at Walmer & Deal.

 

Reculver, single bird, 10th May.

 

Stodmarsh, single bird, 2nd May.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 22nd April.

2017

Bockhill, single bird, 3rd June.

 

Grove Ferry, single bird, 8th May.

2016

Capel-le-Ferne, single bird, 8th May.

2015

Cliffe Quarries, single bird, 26th April.

 

Reculver, single bird, 25th April.

2014

Dungeness BO, a late juvenile bird, 6th November.

 

Reculver, single bird, 13th May.

 

Lade Pits, single bird, 2nd May.

 

Grove Ferry, single bird, 22nd April.

2013

Swalecliffe, single bird flew east, 17th June.

 

Grove Ferry, single bird, 20th May.

  Walland Marsh, 25th May. Assumed same as ARC Pits, Dungeness.
 

ARC Pits, Dungeness, single bird, 24th-25th May.

 

Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 13th May.

 

Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 2nd May.

 

Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 27th April.

 

Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 24th April.

2012

Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 16th May.

 

Capel-le-Ferne, single bird, 12th May.

 

Greatstone, single bird, 7th-9th May.

2011 Chamber's Wall, Reculver, single bird, 22nd May.
  Sandwich Bay, single bird, 18th May.
  Bough Beech, single bird, 17th May.
  Capel-le-Ferne, single bird, 14th May, and seen later at Bockhill.
 

Dungeness RSPB, two birds, 11th May, with one remaining until the following day.

 

Capel-le-Ferne, single bird, 10th May.

 

Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 2nd-3rd May.

 

Kingsdown, two birds, 13th April, with one remaining until the following day.

2010

Minster Water Treatment Works, single bird, 21st-23rd April.

2009

Deal, single bird, 18th May.

 

Bockhill, single bird, 26th April.

2008

Sandwich Bay, single bird flew north, 19th May.

 

Bockhill, single bird, 4th May.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 4th May.

2007

Dungeness, single bird, 21st April.

2006

Dungeness/ARC Pits area, 30th May until 1st June.

 

Dungeness/Lade Pits, single bird, 7th-9th May.

 

Bockhill, single bird, 27th April.

2004

St. Margaret’s, 17th June.

 

Bockhill, 15th May.

 

Grove Ferry, 12th May.

 

Samphire Hoe, two, 13th May.

 

Bockhill, 2nd May.

 

Northward Hill, 30th April.

2003

Capel-le-Ferne, 27th May.

 

Capel-le-Ferne, 6th May.

 

Dungeness, 1st May.

 

Wouldham, 26th April.

 

Dungeness RSPB, 26th April.

2002

Dungeness RSPB, 25th May.

 

Dungeness, adult male, 19th May.

 

Grove Ferry, 3rd May.

2000

Bockhill, St. Margaret's, two, 7th May.

 

Dungeness RSPB, two, 22nd April.

1999

Grain, 3rd September.

 

Monk's Wall and Westbere, 5th-6th April.

1998

Dungeness, 12th May.

1997

Cliffe, 10th May.

 

New Hythe, 8th May.

1995

Capel-le-Ferne, 7th May.

 

Dungeness, 6th-7th May.

1994

North Foreland, 28th October.

 

Stodmarsh, 8th-9th May.

 

Foreness, 30th April.

1993

Isle of Grain, 25th September, also in Essex.

 

St. Margaret's, 5th June.

1992

Abbotscliffe, 23rd May.

1991

Stodmarsh area, 14th-18th June.

1990

Foreness, 17th November.

 

Dungeness, 4th May.

 

Whiteness, near Foreness, 28th April.

 

Dungeness, two, 22nd April.

 

Stodmarsh, 14th-15th, then nearby Westbere, 15th-22nd April.

1988

Dungeness RSPB, 13th June.

 

Sandwich Bay BO, two birds, 26th April.

 

Bough Beech Reservoir, 23rd April.

1987

St. Margaret's Bay, 1st November.

 

Bishopstone, 22nd October.

1984

Sandwich Bay, 10th October.

1976

Dungeness, 9th May.

1975

Stodmarsh, 11th May.

1973

Stodmarsh, 5th May.

1972

Bough Beech Reservoir, 28th August.

1968

Walland Marsh, 30th April.

 

Stodmarsh, 20th April.

1960

Yalding gravel pits, 21st May.

1959

Murston clay pits, nr. Sittingbourne, 28th August.

No Longer Accepted

1964

Ruxley gravel pit, 25th April. NB: No longer in modern Kent.

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