ALPINE SWIFT (Apus melba)

Rare but regular Vagrant

1830	Dover, caught, 20th August.
1832	Kingsgate, Thanet, killed early June. The exact date of this bird is uncertain, but is no earlier than 1829 and no later than 1832.
1871	No locality, seen, June.
1891	Dover, picked up exhausted, 6th July.
1902	Bromstone, Thanet, 21st October.
1916	Hythe, nine, 16th May.
1947	Reculver, 26th April.
1961	Cliffe, 7th October.
1962	Deal, 24th June.
1967	Ramsgate, 28th June.
1969	Dover, 15th-18th March, died.
1970	Fan Bay, Dover, 13th September.
1971	Dungeness, 1st August.
1972	Kingsdown, 27th May.
1975	Dover, 7th June.
	Kingsgate Bay, Thanet, 19th-20th July.
1978	Richborough & Pegwell Bay, 13th-17th August.
1980	Sandwich Bay, 27th September.
1981	Hayesden Water, 25th-26th July.
1982	Dungeness, 9th April, also in East Sussex.
	Botany Bay area, 26th September to 1st October.
1983	Dungeness, 8th May, also in East Sussex.
	Dungeness, 11th August.
1984	Dungeness, 3rd June.
1986	Foreness, 13th May.
1987	Dungeness, 21st July.
	Foreness, 16th September.
	Whitstable, 14th October.
1988	North Foreland, two, 24th-28th March, one of which was later found dead on 26th.
	North Foreland, 17th April.
	Sandwich Bay, 21st April.
	Folkestone, 16th May.
1989	Folkestone, 22nd May.
1990	North Foreland, 24th March.
	Sandwich Bay and Kingsdown, 26th April.
	St. Margaret's, 1st July.
	St. Margaret's, 4th October.
1992	Foreness, 22nd-23rd April; another 23rd; presumed one of same Minnis Bay 23rd.
	Dungeness, 2nd May; probably same Folkestone, 2nd-3rd, Dover, 3rd, Minnis Bay and Reculver, 4th.
	Foreness, 3rd October.
1993	Worth, 16th April.
	Reculver, two, 23rd-26th April.
	Reculver, 2nd May.
	Capel-le-Ferne, 29th June.
	Cheriton, 20th September.
1994	Capel-le-Ferne, 23rd April.
	Capel-le-Ferne and Folkestone, 19th-20th May.
1995	Abbotscliffe, Capel-le-Ferne, 10th July.
2002	Capel-le-Ferne, flying North-East, 10th April.
	Bockhill, 10th April, presumed same bird.
	Bockhill, flying South-East, 17th May.
2003	Foreness, 8th-9th March.
2004	Bockhill, 7th May.
2006	Bockhill, single bird, 17th April.
2007	Sandwich Bay, one flew north, 4th July.
2010	Leybourne, single bird, 27th March.
	North Foreland, single bird, 29th March.
	Dungeness, single bird, 31st March.
	Folkestone, single bird, 4th April.
	Reculver, single bird, 26th May.
No Longer Accepted
1908	Ebony, between Rye and Tenterden, seen, 3rd August.
1915	Kingsdown, Deal, ca. 100, July.
	Kingsdown, Deal, five, 22nd July.
	Kingsdown, Deal, five, 3rd August.
1925	Cotman's Heath, Wittersham, seen early June.