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.
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.