Anthus richardi

Rare Passage Migrant

2025 Reculver, single bird, 14th October.
2024 Foreness, single bird initially flew west, 14th-17th November.
2023 Sandwich Bay, single bird, present from 7th February until 23rd April.
2021 Cooling Marshes, the single bird from 2020, remained until 31st January.
2020 Cooling Marshes, presumably the previous winter's bird, was seen on 12th December and periodically until the year end.
  Abbotscliffe, single bird, 5th November.
  Swalecliffe, single bird, 7th October.
  Cooling Marshes, the single bird from 2019 remained until 7th March.
2019

Cooling Marshes, single bird, 22nd December, through into 2020.

 

Bockhill, single bird, 3rd November.

2018

Sandwich Bay, single bird flew north, 24th October.

2016

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 12th October.

 

Shellness, the bird first seen in November 2015 remained until 2nd April.

2015

Shellness, presumably the same bird returned for the second winter period from 8th November into 2016.

  Abbotscliffe, single bird, 12th October.
 

Shellness, the bird first seen in November 2014 remained until 1st April.

2014

Shellness, single bird, 9th November.

2013

Egypt Bay, single bird, 16th-17th November.

 

Coldharbour Lagoon, Reculver, single bird, 6th November.

 

Bough Beech, single bird, 22nd October.

 

Bockhill, single bird, 11th-18th October.

2012

Sandwich Bay, single sightings on 29th October, and again on 2nd and 8th November. Probably involving two birds.

 

Swalecliffe, single bird, also 24th October.

 

Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 24th October.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 29th September. It or another was heard on 4th October.

2011

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 23rd November.

 

Egypt Bay, High Halstow, 1st November.

  Dungeness, one flew out to sea, 22nd October.
 

Abbotscliffe, single bird, 17th October.

2010

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 19th October.

2009

Bockhill, single bird flew SW, 27th October.

2008

Sandwich Bay, single bird, present early morning, 2nd December.

 

Abbotscliffe, single bird, 9th October.

2007

Cliffe Fort, single bird, 11th November.

 

Bockhill, single bird, 22nd October.

2005

Capel Fleet, single bird, 10th December.

 

Kingsgate, single bird, 18th October.

 

Dungeness Bird Observatory, single bird, 15th October.

 

St. Margaret's, single bird, 13th October.

 

Pegwell Bay, single bird, 6th October.

 

Kingsgate, single bird, 6th-8th October, different to the bird of the 5th.

 

Kingsgate, single bird flew through, 5th October.

 

Abbotscliffe, single bird, 3rd October.

2004

Pegwell Bay, single bird, 3rd December.

 

Abbotscliffe, single bird, 15th-16th October, with a second bird on the 17th.

 

Kingsdown, two birds, 12th-15th October.

 

Kingsdown, single bird, 11th October.

 

Foreness, single bird, 10th October.

 

Dungeness Bird Observatory, single bird, 3rd October.

2003

Abbotscliffe, single bird, 19th October.

2002

Abbotscliffe, single bird, flew east, 4th October.

2001

Foreness, three birds, 26th September, with two remaining until 28th, and one until 29th.

2000

Swalecliffe, single bird briefly, before flying off north, 13th November.

 

Dungeness Bird Observatory, single bird, 14th October.

 

Bockhill, single bird, 23rd April.

1999

Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 16th November.

 

Bockhill, single bird, 14th-15th November.

 

Elmley RSPB, single bird, 13th October.

1998

Pegwell Bay, single bird, 18th October.

1997

St. Margaret's, single bird, flew in off sea, 5th May.

1996

Bockhill, single bird, flew south-west, 5th October.

 

Swalecliffe, single bird, 25th September.

1995

Grain Marshes, single bird, 29th October.

 

Ash Levels, Lower Stour, single bird, 26th October.

 

Shellness, single bird, 1st-8th October.

 

St. Margaret's, single bird, 25th September.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 22nd-23rd September.

 

Bockhill, single bird, 17th September.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 10th-13th May.

 

Minnis Bay, single bird, 7th May.

1994

Reculver, single bird, 5th-8th November.

 

Cliffe Pools, single bird, 29th-31st October.

 

Abbotscliffe, single bird, 24th October.

 

Abbotscliffe, two birds, 1st October.

 

Higham Bight, single bird, 27th-29th September.

 

Reculver, two birds just east of Towers, behind sea wall, 16th September.

1993

St. Margaret's, single bird, 11th November.

 

Foreness, single bird, 30th September.

1992

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 8th November.

 

Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 31st October until 6th November.

 

Foreness, single bird, 13th October.

 

Foreness, single bird, 3rd October.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 30th September to 1st October.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 29th September to 1st October.

 

Reculver, single bird, 27th September.

1991

Pegwell Bay, single bird, 14th November.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 10th-11th November.

 

Abbotscliffe, two birds, 21st October, with one bird remaining until 22nd.

 

Foreness, two birds flew south, 13th October.

 

Herne Bay, single bird, 10th May.

 

Elmley RSPB Reserve, single bird, 9th May.

1990

North Foreland, single bird, 23rd-29th October.

 

Swalecliffe, single bird, 29th September.

 

Church Hougham, Dover, single bird, 22nd September.

1989

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 22nd October.

 

Foreness, single bird, 17th October.

 

Minnis Bay, single bird, 4th October.

1988

Foreness, single bird, 24th-26th November.

 

Whiteness, nr. Foreness, single bird, 5th November.

 

North Foreland, single bird, 16th-17th October.

 

Dartford Marshes, single bird, 29th September.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 10th September.

1987

Sandwich Bay, single bird, present 6th-13th and trapped on 9th December.

 

Foreness, single bird, 28th-31st October.

 

Foreness, single bird, 25th October.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 7th October.

 

Foreness, single bird, 30th September.

 

Kingsnorth (Medway), 2/3 singles, 21st-28th September.

 

Foreness, single bird, 16th September.

1986

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 2nd October.

 

St. Margaret's, single bird, 27th September.

1985

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 22nd October.

1984

Foreness, single bird, 11th October.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 9th October.

 

Foreness, single bird, 9th October.

 

North Foreland, three birds, during 8th-11th October.

 

Margate, single bird, 17th May.

1983

Foreness, two birds, 21st October.

 

Foreness, two birds, 3rd October.

 

Foreness, single bird, 1st October.

 

Foreness, five birds, including four off sea, 30th September.

1982

Foreness, single bird, 25th October. Possibly one of previous, but counted as separate.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 23rd October.

 

Foreness, three birds, 22nd October.

 

Foreness, single bird, 20th September.

1981

Ramsgate, single bird, 21st-23rd October.

1979

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 18th November.

1978

Foreness, single bird, 11th-17th December.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 6th May.

1976

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 3rd October.

1972

Swanscombe Marsh, single bird, 15th-17th April.

1971

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 8th May.

1970

Dungeness, single bird, 15th November.

 

Windmill Creek, Sheppey, single bird, 4th November.

1969

Foreness, single bird, 18th-19th September.

1968

Cliffe Marshes, single bird, 14th-16th November.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 6th October.

 

Dungeness BO, single bird, 15th September.

1967

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 30th October.

1963

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 29th September.

1961

Halstow Marshes, single bird, 3rd January.

1960

Allhallows, single bird, 23rd April.

1950

Shellness, single bird, 23rd April.

1946

Sandwich, single bird, 27th September.

1903

East Kent, bird captured at lantern of the Kentish Knock Lightship, 25th September.

1890

Dover, single bird, 21st October.

1889

Dover, single bird, mid-November.

1868

Dover, single bird, 21st October.

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