BLACK-WINGED STILT

(Himantopus himantopus)

Rare Vagrant

pre-1845	Near Faversham, shot, no date.
1919	Romney Marsh, adult, 16th May.
1942	Romney Marsh, May.
1945	Cooling Marshes, two, 9th May.
	Stodmarsh, two, 12th May.
1953	Shellness, Sheppey, immature, 15th September.
1955	Lower Halstow Creek, adult, 26th September.
1957	Shellness, Sheppey, two, 29th September.
1965	Hythe, Palmarsh, 23rd May.
1967	Stoke Lagoon, 29th May.
1978	Dungeness, 10th, 16th-17th and 24th June, and 6th July; same as West Sussex.
1980	Capel Fleet, male, 21st June to 20th August, same bird as Essex individual.
1981	Elmley, 10th-11th May.
1982	Yantlet, 18th September.
1987	Cliffe Pools, 30th-31st May.
1990	Cliffe Pools, 18th May.
1993	Dungeness, 8th June, later in Suffolk.
1994	Dungeness, 11th July.
1995	Dungeness, 2nd May.
	Eastborough Farm, two, 9th May.
	Cliffe Pools, 10th-13th may; presumed same, 25th May (same as Eastbourne Farm; also in Essex.
1997	West Hythe, first-winter, 7th September; presumed same as Essex bird.
1998	Northward Hill, 9th-10th May.
	Elmley, male, female and female or first-summer, 26th May.
	Oare Marshes, male, female of same (see Elmley), 28th May, returning to Elmley intermittently to 31st.
1999	Northward Hill, two, 21st May.
	Swale, 21st-25th May.
2001	Dungeness, 9th-10th May.
2005	Dungeness, 4th May.
	Another, Dungeness, 22nd-23rd June.
2006	Elmley, 3rd-4th May.
2008	Elmley & Oare Marsh, male and female, 3rd-4th May.
	Dungeness, adult, 28th-29th May.
2010	Sheppey, adult, 7th April.