Melanitta perspicillata

Passage vagrant

2017

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

2000

Dungeness, first winter, 13th December.

 

North Foreland, first winter, 21st October.

 

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

1999

Dungeness, immature male flew east, 20th April.

1988

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

1984

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

1926

Dungeness, 23rd April.

1914

Lydd-on-Sea, in coastal pool, 14th January.

1899

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

No Longer Accepted

1880

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

The Kent Ornithological Society was founded in 1952

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