Melanitta perspicillata

Passage vagrant

1889

Admiralty Pier, Dover, adult male killed, winter, no exact date.

1914

Lydd, 14th January.

1926

Dungeness, 23rd April.

1984

The Brooks, Lydd, male seen with flock of Common Scoter, M.p.nigra, 14th April.

1988

Minnis Bay, adult male, flying west with mixed flock of duck, 20th October.

1999

Dungeness, immature male, 20th April.

2000

Dungeness, immature male on the patch, 24th May.

 

North Foreland, first winter, 21st October.

 

Dungeness, first winter, 13th December.

2017

Dungeness, single female flew east, on 2nd May.

No Longer Accepted

1880

Two birds seen at the mouth of the Thames in one of the winters between 1875 and 1880.

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