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Hydrobates pelagicus

Rare Passage Vagrant

1952	Lower Hope Point, 3rd November.
1953	Royal Sovereign Lightship, 14th-16th November.
	Dungeness Peninsula, 15th December.
1954	South Goodwin Lightship, two, 6th November.
	South Goodwin Lightship, 20th November.
	South Goodwin Lightship, 25th November.
1957	Shellness, Isle of Sheppey, two, 13th October.
1959	Cliffe Pools, two, 1st November.
1960	Dungeness Peninsula, 3rd April.
1961	Reculver, 14th October.
1964	Maidstone, found dead, 17th October.
1967	Stodmarsh, one east, 9th January.
1970	Dungeness Peninsula, found exhausted, 11th October.
	Shellness, Isle of Sheppey, two, 21st October. Presumably same seen later at North Foreland.
1971	Shellness, Isle of Sheppey, three, 10th October.
	Shellness, Isle of Sheppey, 11th October.
	Shellness, Isle of Sheppey, 19th October.
1973	Shellness, Isle of Sheppey, two, 8th December.
1974	Dover, 12th October.
	Shellness, Isle of Sheppey, 30th October.
1975	Shellness, Isle of Sheppey, 9th November.
	Gravesend, 9th November.
1977	Dover Harbour, 27th November.
1978	Allhallows, 30th September.
	Shellness, Isle of Sheppey, 16th December.
1979	Dover, found on Dover-Boulogne ferry, 13th December. Released next day.
1980	Foreness, 11th October.
	Shellness, Isle of Sheppey, five, 11th October.
	Seasalter, 11th October.
	Dungeness Peninsula, 26th October.
1981	Dungeness Peninsula, 26th December.
1982	Dover, 4th October.
	Sandwich Bay, one north, 7th October.
1983	Dartford, 7th September.
	Dungeness Peninsula, 15th October.
	Lower Hope Point, 6th November.
1984	Minnis Bay, 5th November.
1985	Sandwich Bay, 5th November.
	Foreness, 10th November.
	Foreness, 18th November.
	Foreness, 27th December.
1986	Dungeness Peninsula, one west, 13th September.
	Dover, 27th October.
1987	Folkestone, 1st January.
	Minnis Bay, 18th September.
	Dungeness Peninsula, 9th October.
	Sandwich Bay, 10th October.
	North Foreland, 10th October.
	North Foreland, two south, 18th October.
	Foreness, three east, 2nd December.
1988	Dover Harbour, 7th December.
	Dungeness Peninsula, two west, 28th October.
1991	Sandwich Bay, one south, 9th January.
	Kingsnorth Power Station, 19th October.
	Minnis Bay, one east, 20th November.
1993	Shellness, Isle of Sheppey, 29th October.
1995	Sandwich Bay, one south, 27th November.
1996	Dungeness Bird Observatory, four west, 9th July.
	Underriver, nr. Sevenoaks, fell exhausted into farmyard, 10th December. Recovered and later released.
1997	Foreness, one east, 17th December.
1998	Dungeness Bird Observatory, one west, 12th July.
1999	Staplehurst, found dead, 2nd January.
	Reculver, one west, 19th November.
2000	Greenhithe, one west, 30th October.
	Thames at Cliffe, ten west and two east, 30th October.
	Thames at Dartford, 30th October.
	Cliffe Pools, 30th October.
	Copt Point, 31st October.
	Dungeness Bird Observatory, two west, 31st October.
	Higham Bight, one east, 31st October.
	Stone Marshes, 31st October.
	Dungeness, two west, 2nd November.
	Dungeness, two, one accepted, the other accepted as Petrel sp., 5th November.
2002	Dungeness RSPB, exhausted bird picked up, 26th May.
2003	Reculver, one east, 14th October.
	Reculver, 15th October.
	Reculver, 23rd October.
2004	Cliffe, 11th October.
2005	Dungeness Bird Observatory, one west, 6th November, was seen to be taken by Merlin, Falco columbarius.
2006	In the last week of May, following a severe storm, there was an unprecedented westerly passage of this species through the channel.
	Bockhill, single bird flew south, 20th May.
	Bockhill, two birds flew south, 21st May.
	Dungeness, forty-three birds flew west, 21st May.
	Various coastal sites recorded one to four birds up to 27th may.
	Copt Point, eleven birds flew west, 24th May.
	Dungeness, nineteen birds flew west, 22nd May.
	Dungeness, eighty birds flew west, 23rd May.
	Dungeness, one hundred and thirty-three (133) birds flew west, 24th May.
	Dungeness, fifty-six birds flew west, 25th May.
	Dungeness, twenty-nine birds flew west, 26th May.
	Dungeness, thirty-six birds flew west, 27th May.
	Dungeness, fifteen birds flew west, 28th May.
	Minnis Bay, single bird flew east, 3rd August.
	Dungeness, single bird flew west, 25th October.
2008	Dungeness Bird Observatory, three birds flew west, 9th July.
	Reculver, single bird, 5th October.
2017	A severe storm system swept through the English Channel in early June creating a significant movement of Storm Petrels from the North Sea area into the Straits of Dover and along the east and south Kent coast. Duplications of sightings was highly likely, with peak counts at Dungeness as follows -
	Dungeness, 26 birds flew west, 7th June.
	Dungeness, 40 birds flew west, 8th June.
	Dungeness, single bird flew west, 9th June.
2020	Swalecliffe, single bird, 16th November.
2023	At the beginning of November, following Storm Ciaran, there was an unprecedented westerly passage of this species through the channel.
	Lade Bay, nine birds, 2nd November.
	Mill Point, three birds, 2nd November.
	Kingsdown, single bird, 2nd November.
	Sandwich Bay, four birds, 2nd November.
	Dungeness, eighty-four (84), 2nd November.
	North Forland, two birds, 2nd November.
	Seabrook, single bird, 2nd November.
	Old Stairs Bay, single bird, 2nd November.
	Hythe, eight birds, 2nd November.
	Dungeness, forty-four (44) birds, 3^rd November.
	Walmer, six birds, 3^rd November.
	Dover Harbour, single bird found moribund, 3^rd November.
	North Forland, single bird, 3rd November.
	Mill Point, three birds, 3rd November.
	Dungeness, three birds, 3rd November.
	North Forland, single bird, 3rd November.

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