Anthus campestris

Rare Vagrant

2016

Dungeness, first-year bird, 11th September.

2014

Hope Point, Bockhill, single bird, 30th-31st August.

2009

Sandwich Bay, a single bird flew North, 19th September.

2008

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 22nd September.

2005

Bockhill, single bird, 10th September.

 

Dungeness BO, one juvenile, 23rd August.

2002

Dungeness BO, single bird, 7th-8th September.

2001

Swalecliffe, single bird, 30th September.

2000

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 27th April.

1999

Hope Point, Bockhill, single bird, 11th September.

1998

Hope Point, Bockhill, single bird, 10th October.

1997

North Foreland, single bird, 29th September.

1996

Sandwich Bay, juvenile joined adult of previous day, 24th-28th August.

 

Sandwich Bay, one adult bird, 23rd-28th August.

1995

Abbotscliffe, single bird in off sea, 16th September, later found dead.

 

Hoo Peninsula, single bird, 26th August.

 

Northward Hill, single bird flew west and was later relocated at Cliffe, 28th April.

1994

Foreness, single bird, 14th-17th September.

1993

Dungeness, single bird, 10th October.

 

Reculver, single bird, 30th September until 2nd October.

 

St. Margaret’s, two birds, 15th September, one remaining until 16th.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 19th April.

1992

Sandwich Bay, two birds, 29th September.

 

Kingsnorth (North), single bird, 28th September.

 

Abbotscliffe, single bird, 13th September.

 

Minnis Bay, single bird, 12th September.

 

Dungeness, three birds, 4th September.

 

Dengemarsh, single bird, 3rd September.

 

Pegwell Bay, single bird, 10th May.

 

Foreness, single bird, 20th April.

1991 Sandwich Bay, single bird, 29th September.
 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 15th-18th September.

 

Warden Point, Sheppey, single bird, 12th May.

1990

Bishopstone, single bird, 9th September.

 

St. Margaret’s, single bird, 29th July.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 7th May.

 

North Foreland, single bird, 6th May.

 

Reculver, single bird, 28th April.

1989

Dungeness, single bird, 13th September.

1988

Elmley, single bird, 1st October, and probably the same bird from 21st-23rd.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 1st October.

 

Pegwell Bay, single bird, 26th-29th September.

 

Reculver, single bird, 10th September.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 6th September.

 

Foreness, single bird, 5th May.

 

Minnis Bay, single bird, 3rd May.

1987

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 18th October.

 

Foreness, single bird, 4th October.

 

Dungeness, two birds, 6th September.

 

Bishopstone, single bird, 5th September.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 7th May.

1986

Dungeness, three birds, 13th-14th September, with two remaining until 16th.

 

Shellness, Sheppey, single bird, 31st August.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 20th August.

 

Joss Bay, single bird, 28th May.

 

Foreness, single bird, 1st May.

1985

St. Margaret’s, single bird, 20th-23rd September.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 30th-31st August.

1984

Foreness, single bird, 18th May.

1983

Foreness, single bird, 28th September.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 23rd September.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 22nd September.

 

Foreness, single bird, 28th April.

1982

Cliffsend, single bird, 11th September.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 30th May.

 

Foreness, single bird, 3rd May.

1981

Dungeness Pits, single bird, 31st August.

 

Dungeness, three birds trapped, 27th-28th September.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 19th September.

 

Dungeness Pits, single bird, 13th September.

1980

Dungeness, single bird, 21st September.

 

St. Margaret’s, single bird, 7th September.

 

Cliffe, single bird, 31st August.

1979

Foreness, single bird, 28th September.

 

Reculver, single bird, 16th September.

 

St. Margaret’s Bay, single bird, 9th September.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 27th May.

 

St. Margaret’s Bay, single bird, 21st April.

1978

Dungeness, single bird, 6th-11th September, and again on 14th.

 

St. Margaret’s, single bird, 2nd September.

 

Richborough, single bird, 16th August.

1977

Minnis Bay, immature bird, 17th October.

1976

Bough Beech, single bird, 4th-6th November.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 16th September.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 16th May.

1974

Dungeness, two, possibly three birds, 12th September.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 29th August.

1973

Stodmarsh, single bird, 6th-7th May.

1972

Shellness, Sheppey, single bird, 6th-7th October.

 

Reculver, single bird, 1st October.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 24th September.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 8th-10th September.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 3rd September.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 18th May.

1971

Dungeness, single bird, 26th September.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 5th September.

 

Dungeness, two birds, 30th August, with one remaining until the following day.

 

Shellness, Sheppey, single bird, 28th-29th August.

 

Dungeness, two birds (1 immature), 22nd August.

 

Birchington, single bird, 18th May.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 9th May.

 

Dungeness, single bird seen on 5th and 8th May.

 

Reculver, single bird, 2nd May.

1970

Dungeness area, two birds, 20th September.

 

The Brooks, single bird, 12th September.

1969 Dungeness, adult, 20th-21st September.
 

Dungeness, single bird, 13th September.

 

Cliffe, single bird, 30th May.

1968

Midrips/Wicks, single bird, 4th September.

1967

Dungeness, single bird, 18th-19th September.

 

Midrips/Wicks, adult bird, 2nd September.

 

Dungeness, three birds, 28th August, with two remaining until the following day.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 28th August.

1966

Oppen Pits, Dungeness, single bird, 3rd October.

1965

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 17th April.

1962

Dungeness, immature bird, 28th-30th September.

 

Dungeness, adult bird, 27th-30th September.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 6th September.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 25th April.

1961

Dungeness, another single bird, 16th September.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 1st-2nd September.

1960

Reculver, single bird, 24th September.

1956

Warden Point, Sheppey, single bird, 21st October.

 

Egypt Bay, single bird, 23rd September.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 9th September.

1951 The Wicks, one, 1st September.
1919

Near Lydd, single bird, 28th May.

1896

Near Lydd, single bird collected, 2nd August.

No Longer Accepted

1958

Dungeness, single bird, 2nd May.

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