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Details: Super User; Kent List records; 28 February 2022

Locustella luscinioides

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2024	Stodmarsh NNR, singing male, 11th-12th June.
	Worth Marshes, singing male, 10th May.
2023	Stodmarsh/Grove Ferry, two singing males, 17th April until 31st May.
2022	Grove Ferry/Stodmarsh, second-year male, 29th June until 30th July.
	Lydden Valley RSPB, singing second-year male, 28th April until 2nd May.
2020	Grove Ferry, singing male, 17th-29th May.
2017	Stodmarsh NNR, singing male, 28th May until 2nd June.
2016	Pegwell Bay, singing male, 25th April.
2015	Stodmarsh, singing male, 5th-25th May.
	Stonelees LNR, singing male, 25th April.
2011	Site withheld, up to 3 singing males, 25th May until 27th June.
2009	Stour Valley, singing male, 11th-27th April.
2008	Sandwich Bay, 29th September.
2007	Oare Marshes, singing male, 18th-20th May.
2006	Stodmarsh, singing male, 25th April to 10th July, with additional singing male on 30th April.
2005	Stour Valley, singing male, 15th-29th April.
2004	Grove Ferry, singing male, 17th July until 3rd August.
	Oare Marshes, singing male, 14th July.
2002	Dungeness, 15th-20th June.
	Grove Ferry, 2nd-6th June.
2001	Grove Ferry, in song, 23rd-26th May, one remaining until 24th July.
	South Swale NNR, in song, 23rd May.
1999	Grove Ferry, in song, paired and seen carrying food, 1st June to 10th July.
	Stodmarsh, in song, 16th and 18th May; possibly same, 8th July.
	Walland Marsh, in song, 10th-13th May.
1997	Grove Ferry, male, seen and heard, 17th May.
1996	Dungeness RSPB, singing male, 27th June.
1995	North, singing male, 23rd-30th July.
1994	North, 2 males present until 6th July, and seen again 2nd-3rd September.
	Stour Valley, singing male, 27th April until at least 5th May.
1993	Stour Valley, recorded from 19t April, where two pairs bred. Last seen there on 27th July.
1992	Dungeness, singing male, 30th May.
	East, the first arrived on 17th April, with up to six holding territories throughout May.
1991	Stour Valley, singing male, 25th April until the end of July.
1990	Stour Valley, singing male, 10th June.
1989	Minnis Bay, migrant heard singing, 30th April.
	Stour Valley, one, possibly two singing males, 22nd April until 12th May.
1988	Stour Valley, up to two singing males, 1st May until 1st June.
1987	Stour Valley, three singing males, 21st April until 19th May.
1986	Stour Valley, singing male, 1st April until 2nd June.
1985	Stoke Fleet, a single bird was trapped on 6th September.
	Stour valley, the first arrived on 7th April, and two singing males established territories, at least one of them being paired and which bred successfully.
1984	Stour Valley, three territories, 18th April until 10th June.
	South, singing male, 4th May.
1983	North, an unpaired singing male, 8th May until 24th July.
	Stour Valley, three singing males, the first on 7th April. One pair raised at least one young, one probably bred and the third was thought to be unpaired.
1982	Elmley, one heard, 16th May
	Stour Valley, locality B, male, 13th April, two from 15th, last heard 2nd July.
	Stour Valley, locality A, one or two males, 15th to 27th April, one 3rd July
1981	Stodmarsh and Middle Stour area, 29th March to 4th August, four occupied territories, three pairs, two bred successfully.
1980	Westbere, 11th May to 4th June.
	Stodmarsh and Middle Stour area, 7th April to at least 4th June, probably five males, and at least two pairs breeding.
1979	Stodmarsh and Middle Stour area, up to nine localities, 9th April to 22nd August, six territories held, at least four pairs attempted breeding, three successfully.
1978	Stodmarsh and Middle Stour area, 22nd April onwards, maximum eight males, seven probably, and five definitely paired, three proved breeding.
1977	Locality withheld, 24th April to 4th September, one pair bred.
	Stodmarsh, 3rd April to 25th September; up to five pairs, two probably bred.
1976	Fordwich, male, 12th June; probably same, 6th July.
	Stodmarsh, singing male, 9th April, subsequently at least two singing, one pair believed to have bred successfully, one male believed to have remained unmated.
1975	Westbere, male, 4th May.
	Westbere, male, 26th April.
	Stodmarsh, male, 22nd April, and subsequently one pair which reared four young, and unmated male.
1974	Locality in the north, 23rd June.
	Stodmarsh, singing male, 6th April, another on 10th, and a third on 4th May; all three males held territory through the breeding season, one pair definitely bred and a second pair very probably bred.
1973	Seasalter, 29th April.
	Stodmarsh, 20th April, up to three singing subsequently but no evidence of breeding success.
1972	Stodmarsh, two, 27th April, up to six regularly heard subsequently and at least one pair bred.
1971	Locality withheld, another singing male, summer.
	Stodmarsh, 19th May to 17th July, a total of five singing males in May and June and at least one paired.
1969	Locality in north, two or three, probably bred, 9th May and during June.
	Locality withheld, male, all May.
	Stour Valley, three, perhaps five males, 19th April to 14th July.
1968	Stodmarsh, 28th March to 28th July, three males in song.
1967	Stodmarsh, four singing males, 15th April to July.
1966	Stodmarsh, eight/nine males singing, 8th April to 8th July, evidence of two pairs nesting.
1965	Stodmarsh, twelve males holding territory between 15th April and 12^thJuly, one trapped, 16th May.
1964	Stodmarsh, four singing males, two pairs bred, 15th April to 9th June.
1963	Stodmarsh, three singing males, but no proof of breeding, 15th April to 30th June.
1962	Stodmarsh, two singing males, 18th May to 15th July.
1961	Stodmarsh, one or two singing males, but no evidence of breeding, 25^thApril to 1st July.
1960	Stodmarsh, three singing males, two pairs bred, 18th April to 3rd August.

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