Hirundo daurica

Uncommon Passage Vagrant

1959

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

1960

Yalding gravel pits, 21st May.

1968

Stodmarsh, 20th April.

 

Walland Marsh, 30th April.

1972

Bough Beech Reservoir, 28th August.

1973

Stodmarsh, 5th May.

1975

Stodmarsh, 11th May.

1976

Dungeness, 9th May.

1984

Sandwich Bay, 10th October.

1987

Reculver, 22nd October.

 

St. Margaret's Bay, 1st November.

1988

Bough Beech Reservoir, 23rd April.

 

Sandwich Bay BO, two birds, 26th April.

 

Dungeness, 13th June.

1990

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

 

Dungeness, two, 22nd April.

 

Whiteness, near Foreness, 28th April.

 

Dungeness, 4th May.

 

Foreness, 17th November.

1991

Stodmarsh area, 14th-18th June.

1992

Folkestone, 23rd May.

1993

St. Margaret's, 5th June.

 

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

1994

Foreness, 30th April.

 

Stodmarsh, 8th-9th May.

 

North Foreland, 28th October.

1995

Dungeness, 6th-7th May.

 

Capel-le-Ferne, 7th May.

1997

New Hythe, 8th May.

 

Cliffe, 10th May.

1998

Dungeness, 12th May.

1999

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

 

Grain, 3rd September.

2000

Dungeness, two, 22nd April.

 

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

2002

Grove Ferry, 3rd May.

 

Dungeness, adult male, 19th May.

 

Dungeness, 25th May.

2003

Dungeness RSPB, 26th April.

 

Wouldham, 26th April.

 

Dungeness, 1st May.

 

Capel-le-Ferne, 6th May.

 

Capel-le-Ferne, 27th May.

2004

Northwood Hill, 30th April.

 

Bockhill, 2nd May.

 

Capel-le-Ferne, two, also seen at Samphire Hoe, 12th-13th May.

 

Grove Ferry, 12th May.

 

Bockhill, 15th May.

 

St. Margaret’s, 17th June.

2006

Bockhill, single bird, 27th April.

 

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

 

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

2007

Dungeness, single bird, 21st April.

2008

Dungeness, single bird, 4th May.

 

Bockhill, single bird, 4th May.

 

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

2009

Bockhill, single bird, 26th April.

 

Deal, single bird, 18th May.

2010

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

2011

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

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

2012

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

 

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

 

Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 16th May.

2013

Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 24th April.

 

Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 27th April.

 

Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 2nd May.

 

Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 13th May.

 

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

 

Grove Ferry, single bird, 20th May.

 

Swalecliffe, single bird flew east, 17th June.

2014

Grove Ferry, single bird, 22nd April.

 

Lade Pits, single bird, 2nd May.

 

Reculver, single bird, 13th May.

 

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

2015

Reculver, single bird, 25th April.

 

Cliffe Pools, single bird, 26th April.

2016

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

2017

Grove Ferry, single bird, 8th May.

 

Bockhill, single bird, 3rd June.

2018

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 22nd April.

 

Stodmarsh, single bird, 2nd May.

 

Reculver, single bird, 10th May.

 

Kingsdown, two birds, 24th May.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 27th October.

2019

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

 

Sandwich Bay, two birds, 1st May.

 

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

  

Bough Beech, single bird, 25th May.

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

No Longer Accepted

1964

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

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