Anthus richardi

Rare Passage Migrant

1868

Dover, single bird, 21st October.

1889

Dover, single bird, mid-November.

1890

Dover, single bird, 21st October.

1903

East Kent, bird killed against lantern of the Kentish Knock Lightship, 25th September.

1946

Sandwich, single bird, 27th September.

1950

Shellness, single bird, 23rd April.

1960

Allhallows, single bird, 23rd April.

1961

Halstow Marshes, single bird, 3rd January.

1963

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 29th September.

1967

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 30th October.

1968

Dungeness BO, single bird, 15th September.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 6th October.

 

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

1969

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

1970

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

 

Dungeness, single bird, 15th November.

1971

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 8th May.

1972

Swanscombe Marsh, single bird, 15th April.

1976

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 3rd October.

1978

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 6th May.

 

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

1979

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 18th November.

1981

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

1982

Foreness, single bird, 20th September.

 

Foreness, three birds, 22nd October.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 23rd October.

 

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

1983

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

 

Foreness, single bird, 1st October.

 

Foreness, two birds, 3rd October.

 

Foreness, two birds, 21st October.

1984

Margate, single bird, 17th May.

 

North Foreland, single bird, 8th-11th October.

 

Foreness, single bird, 9th October.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 9th October.

 

Foreness, single bird, 11th October.

1985

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 22nd October.

1986

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

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 2nd October.

1987

Foreness, single bird, 16th September.

 

Kingsnorth (Medway), two birds, 21st-28th September.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 2nd October.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 7th October.

 

Foreness, single bird, 25th October.

 

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

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 12th-31st December.

1988

Dungeness, single bird, 10th September.

 

Dartford Marshes, single bird, 29th September.

 

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

 

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

 

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

1989

Minnis Bay, single bird, 4th October.

 

Foreness, single bird, 17th October.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 22nd October.

1990

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

 

Swalecliffe, single bird, 22nd September.

 

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

1991

Elmley RSPB Reserve, single bird, 9th May.

 

Herne Bay, single bird, 10th May.

 

Foreness, single bird, 13th October.

 

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

 

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

 

Pegwell Bay, single bird, 14th November.

1992

Reculver, single bird, 27th September.

 

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

 

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

 

Foreness, single bird, 3rd October.

 

Foreness, single bird, 13th October.

 

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

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 8th November.

1993

Foreness, single bird, 30th September.

 

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

 

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

1994

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

 

Abbotscliffe, two birds, 1st October.

 

Abbotscliffe, single bird, 24th October.

 

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

 

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

1995

Minnis Bay, single bird, 7th May.

 

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

 

Bockhill, single bird, 17th September.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Grain Marshes, single bird, 29th October.

1996

Swalecliffe, single bird, 25th September.

 

Bockhill, single bird, flew south-west, 17th September.

1997

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

1998

Pegwell Bay, single bird, 18th October.

1999

Elmley RSPB, single bird, 13th October.

 

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

 

Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 16th November.

2000

Bockhill, single bird, 23rd April.

 

Dungeness Bird Observatory, single bird, 14th October.

 

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

2001

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

2002

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

2003

Abbotscliffe, single bird, 19th October.

2004

Dungeness Bird Observatory, single bird, 3rd October.

 

Foreness, single bird, 11th October.

 

Kingsdown, single bird, 11th October.

 

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

 

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

 

Pegwell Bay, single bird, 3rd December.

2005

Abbotscliffe, single bird, 3rd October.

 

Kingsgate, single bird flew through, 5th October.

 

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

 

Pegwell Bay, single bird, 6th October.

 

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

 

Dungeness Bird Observatory, single bird, 15th October.

 

Kingsgate, single bird, 18th October.

 

Capel Fleet, single bird, 10th December.

2007

Bockhill, single bird, 22nd October.

 

Cliffe Fort, single bird, 11th November.

2008

Abbotscliffe, single bird, 9th October.

 

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

2009

Bockhill, single bird flew SW, 27th October.

2010

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 19th October.

2011

Abbotscliffe, single bird, 17th October.

 

Egypt Bay, High Halstow, 1st November.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 23rd November.

2012

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

 

Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 24th October.

 

Swalecliffe, single bird, also 24th October.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 29th October, and again on 2nd and 8thNovember.

2013

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

 

Bough Beech, single bird, 22nd October.

 

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

 

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

2014

Shellness, single bird, 9th November.

2015

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

 

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

2016

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

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 12th October.

2018

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

2019

Bockhill, single bird, 3rd November.

 

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

2020 Cooling Marshes, the single bird from 2019 remained until 7th March.
  Swalecliffe, single bird, 7th October.
  Abbotscliffe, single bird, 5th November.
  Cooling Marshes, presumably the previous winter's bird, was seen on 12th December and periodically until the year end.
2021 Cooling Marshes, the single bird from 2020, remained until 31st January.
2023 Sandwich Bay, single bird, present from 7th February until 3rd April.
2024 Foreness, single bird, 14th-17th November.

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