BLACK GUILLEMOT (Cepphus grylle)

Passage Vagrant

1844	Dungeness Peninsula, specimen obtained prior to this year either at sea off Dungeness, or possibly taken "in the Parish of Lydd". Specimen now lost.
1885	Thames at Cliffe, shot by Mr. AB Farm below the Mucking Light, 28th August.
1900	An undated but presumably 19th century record of an immature bird in the Hammond Collection.
	An undated but presumably 19th century record of an immature bird collected in the East Bay at Dungeness, now in Folkestone museum.
1911	Dungeness Bird Observatory, adult male in summer plumage, 21st May. Specimen now in Maidstone Museum.
1951	Dungeness Bird Observatory, winter plumage, 10th February.
1956	Dungeness Bird Observatory, 2nd August.
1961	Dungeness Bird Observatory, single bird west, 12th August.
1972	Deal, 15th March.
1977	Ramsgate, found oiled 28th July, released 18th August.
1983	Dungeness Bird Observatory, 27th November.
1985	Sandwich Bay, 6th November.
1987	St. Margaret's, 19th February.
	Dungeness Bird Observatory, 16th August.
	Off Goodwin Sands, 5 miles South-east of Ramsgate, 15th November.
1989	Reculver, summer plumage adult, 9th September.
1995	Reculver, winter plumage, offshore, 10th-16th December.
1996	Dungeness Bird Observatory, 7th March.
	Dungeness Bird Observatory, summer plumage adult, east, 13th May.
	Dungeness Bird Observatory, 23rd-29th August.
2000	Dungeness, winter plumage, 19th September.
2003	Dungeness, 12th April.
2004	Swalecliffe, summer plumage adult flew west, 5th August.
2006	Reculver, single bird flew west, 1st November.
	Deal Pier, single bird drifted south, 15th November.
	Swalecliffe, 4th December.
2011	Reculver, single bird, 13th August.
No Longer Accepted
1997	Oare Marshes, 13th September.