Short-toed Treecreeper

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Certhia brachydactyla

Rare Vagrant

2023 Dungeness BO, single bird trapped and ringed, 16th October.
  Dungeness NNR, in private garden, single bird, 5th May.
  Bockhill, single bird, 8th April.
  Fan Bay, South Foreland, single bird, 7th April.
2020

Dungeness BO, single bird, 14th October.
 

Dungeness BO, single bird, 14th-15th April.
 

Dungeness BO, single bird, 2nd April.
 

Dungeness BO, single bird, 17th-20th March.
2019

Langdon Cliffs, single bird, first seen on 21st September, was probably the same bird as that seen on 6th October and again on 3rd November.
2018

Dungeness, single bird on 11th April.
2017

Samphire Hoe CP, single bird on 15th October.
2015

Dungeness, single bird on 10th September.
2012

Samphire Hoe, single bird on 10th March.
2010 St. Margaret’s-at-Cliffe, single bird, 1st February until 13th March.
2005

Dungeness, another, 8th May.
 

Dungeness, single bird on 2nd May.
2003

Dungeness, lighthouse garden, 14th October, and again at Long Pits, 16th October.
2001

Dungeness, 27th-30th March.
1998

Dungeness, 30th-31st March, trapped both days.
1994

Dungeness RSPB, 3rd-4th April.
1993

Dungeness, 31st August-11th September, 19th September & 1st December.
1991

Dungeness, another [see 18th October et seq.], 23rd-31st January, see also 1990.
1990

Sandwich Bay, trapped, 7th November.
 

Dungeness, 18th-24th October, 6th November to 16th January 1991, trapped, 18th, 20th October, 6th November.
 

St. Margaret's Bay, trapped, 14th October.
 

Reculver, female, trapped, 29th July.
1988

Sandwich Bay, 19th-25th October, trapped 19th.
1984

Dungeness, trapped, 15th and 19th April.
1983

St. Margaret’s, trapped 24th September.
1978

Dungeness, two, both trapped 7th October, with one remaining until 10th.
1974

Sandwich Bay, trapped 4th April.
1973

Worth, trapped 26th September.
1969

Dungeness, 27th-30th September, trapped 27th and 30th. This constitutes the first record for Britain.
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