Lanius senator

Rare Migrant

2024 Dungeness RSPB, male, 19th May.
2021 Langdon Bay, male, 17th May.
2019

Seaton GPs, first-winter bird, 30th October.

2017

Dungeness, male, 12th May.

2016

Seaton GPs, single bird, 23rd May.

2014

Foreness, single bird, 2nd June.

2011

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 17th-19th May.

2010

Shuart, single bird, 1st May.

2009

Whitstable, single bird, 2nd May.

2007

Dungeness, female, 23rd May.

2005

Cliffe, 4th-8th June.

2004

Minnis Bay, male, 5th June.

 

Chambers Wall, Reculver, female, 19th-22nd April.

2000

Dungeness, juvenile, 15th-16th August.

1999

Lydd, adult male, 13th June.

1998

Dungeness, first-summer male, 23rd June to 3rd July.

1997

Reculver, single bird, 23rd-30th April.

1996

Dungeness, first-summer male, 20th June.

 

Dungeness, adult male, 14th-19th June.

 

Church Hougham, probable female, 13th June.

1995

Dungeness, adult male, 15th-21st July, trapped 18th.

1993

Dungeness, juvenile, 18th August.

 

Dungeness, adult female, 5th June.

1991

Brockhill Park, Folkestone, first-summer male, 23rd May.

1987

Bretts Pits, Lydd, first-summer male, 26th April.

1986

Cliffe, single bird, 14th-16th May.

1984

Kingsgate, Thanet, immature, 6th-16th October.

1981

Dungeness Reserve, single bird, 7th-8th June.

1979

Sandwich Bay, immature trapped, 7th-9th October.

1978

Minster-in-Thanet, immature, 8th October.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 4th May.

1977

Kingsdown, immature, 3rd September.

 

Langley, adult, 28th June to 2nd July.

1976

Dungeness, immature, 8th September.

 

Dungeness, adult male, 28th May.

1972

Dungeness area, single bird, 26th June.

1971

Littlebrook, nr. Dartford, single bird, 5th and 7th May.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 25th April.

1969

Kingsdown, male, 16th June.

 

Sandwich Bay, male, 28th May.

1968

Sandwich Bay, immature, 6th October.

1965

Dungeness, first-winter, 22nd August to 13th September, trapped, 28th August.

1962

Sandwich Bay, first-winter, 14th-31st August.

1961

Dungeness, adult, 11th June.

1959

Dungeness, juvenile trapped, 13th August.

1956

Dungeness, juvenile first seen on 19th August, was ringed on 20th, and was seen again 29th-31st, with another juvenile from 5th-8th September, ringed on 7th.

1955

Allhallows, juvenile, 4th-18th September.

1954

Swalecliffe, single bird, 26th August.

 

Sheerness, single bird, 24th June.

1953 

Dungeness, juvenile trapped, 23rd August.

1948

Sandwich, adult, 5th July.

1947

New Romney, single bird, 5th June.

1946

Isle of Grain, single bird, 12th May.

1937

Ash Levels, nr. Canterbury, male and female, 5th May.

1934

Longfield, nr. Gravesend, male of race L.s. weigoldi, first seen 24th April and later found dead on 9th May. Now in national collection British Museum (Natural History).

1907

Tunbridge Wells, single bird, 23rd May.

1891

Nr. Sittingbourne, single bird, 24th February.

1888

Folkestone Warren, date unknown. Now in Canterbury Museum.

1868

Murston, single bird shot, towards end of July.

1857

Tonbridge, single bird, shot and wounded, 14th May.

pre.1851

Location and date unknown, single male. Now in Exeter Museum.

1841

Sackett's Hill, nr. Broadstairs, shot, 6th May.

pre.1835

Canterbury, immature male, killed, date uncertain.

No Longer Accepted

1968

Herne Bay, single bird, 13th and 15th October.

 

Aycliffe, nr. Dover, male, 1st July.

1953

Sandling/Boxley Abbey, summer plumage, 4th July.

1918

Fairfield, Romney Marsh, shot, June. Now in Maidstone Museum. Hastings rarity.

1909

Romney Marsh, single bird showing characters of L.s. badius, 29th June. Hastings rarity.

1907 

Newchurch, Romney Marsh, single bird shot, no date. Hastings rarity.

 

Hadlow, adult male, shot, 4th July.

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