Lanius senator

Rare Migrant

pre.1835

Canterbury, immature male, killed, date uncertain.

1841

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

pre.1851

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

1857

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

1868

Murston, single bird shot, towards end of July.

1888

Folkestone Warren, date unknown. Now in Canterbury Museum.

1891

Nr. Sittingbourne, single bird, 24th February.

1907

Tunbridge Wells, single bird, 23rd 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).

1937

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

1946

Isle of Grain, single bird, 12th May.

1947

New Romney, single bird, 5th June.

1948

Sandwich, adult, 5th July.

1953 

Dungeness, juvenile trapped, 23rd August.

1954

Sheerness, single bird, 24th June.

 

Swalecliffe, single bird, 26th August.

1955

Allhallows, juvenile, 4th-18th September.

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.

1959

Dungeness, juvenile trapped, 13th August.

1961

Dungeness, adult, 11th June.

1962

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

1965

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

1968

Sandwich Bay, immature, 6th October.

1969

Sandwich Bay, male, 28th May.

 

Kingsdown, male, 16th June.

1971

Dungeness, single bird, 25th April.

 

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

1972

Dungeness area, single bird, 26th June.

1976

Dungeness, adult male, 28th May.

 

Dungeness, immature, 8th September.

1977

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

 

Kingsdown, immature, 3rd September.

1978

Dungeness, single bird, 4th May.

 

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

1979

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

1981

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

1984

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

1986

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

1987

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

1991

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

1993

Dungeness, adult female, 5th June.

 

Dungeness, juvenile, 18th August.

1995

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

1996

Church Hougham, probable female, 13th June.

 

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

 

Dungeness, first-summer male, 20th June.

1997

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

1998

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

1999

Lydd, adult male, 13th June.

2000

Dungeness, juvenile, 15th-16th August.

2004

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

 

Minnis Bay, male, 5th June.

2005

Cliffe, 4th-8th June.

2007

Dungeness, female, 23rd May.

2009

Whitstable, single bird, 2nd May.

2010

Shuart, single bird, 1st May.

2011

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

2014

Foreness, single bird, 2nd June.

2016

Seaton GPs, single bird, 23rd May.

2017

Dungeness, male, 12th May.

2019

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

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

No longer accepted

1907 

Hadlow, adult male, shot, 4th July.

 

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

1909

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

1918

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

1953

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

1968

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

 

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

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