AQUATIC WARBLER                                    (Acrocephalus paludicola)

Rare Autumn Passage Migrant

1907 Dungeness, 7th September, two/three, 10th September.
1915 Dungeness, 30th August.
1916 Dungeness, 12th September.
1926 Preston, male, shot, 10th August, now at Maidstone Museum.
1931 Dungeness, 14th September.
1937 Cheyne Court, Walland Marsh, 22nd August.
1938 Dungeness Lighthouse, first-year, picked up dead, 26th September.
1951 Near Dungeness, 5th September.
1955 Dungeness, single bird trapped, 15th August.
1959 Dungeness, single bird trapped, 2nd August.
1960 Dungeness, single bird, 18th September.
1961 Long Pits, Dungeness, single bird, 24th September.
1962 Sandwich Bay, single bird trapped, 9th September.
1963 Dungeness, single bird, 1st September.
  Dungeness, single bird trapped, 21st September.
1964 Dungeness, single bird, 27th September.
1975 Dungeness, single bird, 2nd September.
  Dungeness, single bird, 10th-14th September.
1976 Lower Hope Point, first-year, 9th August.
1979 Minster-in-Thanet, first-year trapped, 25th August.
  Cliffe Pools, single bird, 21st September.
1980 Sandwich Bay, single birds, 9th and 22nd August.
1981 Elmley, single bird, 6th August.
  Cliffe, single bird, 16th September.
  Dungeness, single bird, 20th September.
1983 Foreness, single bird, 8th August.
  Foreness, another, 9th August.
  Sandwich Bay, single bird trapped, 10th August.
1984 Dungeness, single bird, 26th August.
1985 Walland Reservoir , single bird, 13th August.
1986 Dungeness, single bird, 15th September.
1987 Cliffe, single bird, 22nd-24th August.
1989 Stodmarsh, single bird trapped, 4th August.
1991 Foreness, single bird, 2nd September.
1993 Elmley, single bird, 29th-31st August.
1994 Stodmarsh, single bird trapped, 14th August.
1995 Elmley, three birds, 20th-25th August, including one ringed at Icklesham, Sussex, on the 12th.
  Elmley, another bird, 3rd September.
1996 Long Pits, Dungeness, single bird, 12th August.
  Dungeness Reserve, single bird, 21st August.
  Nagden, single bird trapped, 2nd September.
1999 Grove Ferry, single bird, 24th August.
  Swale NNR, single bird, 30th August.
  Grove Ferry, single bird, 31st August.
2000 Sandwich Bay, single bird trapped, 19th August.
2004 Waterham, near Seasalter, juvenile trapped and ringed, 2nd August.
2006 Sandwich Bay, single bird controlled in Belarus on 17th June, was trapped, 15th August.
  Seasalter, 17th-20th August. Click for photo
2007 Nagden Marsh, trapped and photographed, 29th August.
   
No longer accepted  
1963 Stoke Fleet, single bird, 18th August.
1964 Sevenoaks, single bird, 21st August.
  Sandwich Bay, single bird trapped, 25th August.
1998 Stodmarsh, single bird, 6th September.