Dipper (Cinclus cinclus)

Rare Vagrant

c.1845	Dover, shot, no specific date. Now in Dover Museum.
1849-50	Dover, shot, winter, no specific date.
1870	River, nr. Dover, no date recorded.
1885	Merworth, obsereved, February.
1890	Margate, shot, year end, no specific date.
1894	Benenden, observed, 4th November.
1906	Sandwich, shot, no date recorded.
1906-07	Bushey Roughs, nr. Dover, exact numbers and dates during this period not recorded.
1944	River Stour, Wickhambreaux/Littlebourne, swingle bird, 24th-30th December.
1955	Royal Military Canal, Hythe, nominate Black-bellied race C.c.cinclus, 22nd February to 3rd March.
	Sandwich, nominate Black-bellied race C.c.cinclus, 20th November to 6th December.
1965	Mote Park, Maidstone, first-winter, nominate Black-bellied race C.c.cinclus, trapped 28th November.
	Loose, 6th December, likely to be same as previous bird.
1966	Loose Valley, Maidstone, bore a ring, 9th January and 21st March. Almost certainly the bird trpped at Mote Park in 1965.
1974	Sandling Park, nominate Black-bellied race C.c.cinclus, 20th January.
1975	Loose Valley, Maidstone, nominate Black-bellied race C.c.cinclus, 25th January. Again River Len between Leeds and Maidstone, 20th February. Trapped and ringed Leeds Castle Estate 12th March.
1976	Sandwich, nominate Black-bellied race C.c.cinclus, flew in off sea, 31st October. Presumably same bird Worth marshes on 2nd November and 24th December.
	Loose Valley, Maidstone, nominate Black-bellied race C.c.cinclus, 16th November to end of year.
1977	Loose Valley, Maidstone, nominate Black-bellied race C.c.cinclus, from previous year until 22nd February.
1982	Otford, race undetermined, 11th-20th January.
1988	River Stour, Chilham, nominate Black-bellied race C.c.cinclus, 19th-21st March.
	Loose stream, nominate Black-bellied race C.c.cinclus, 22nd-24th March..
1989	Brockhill Park, Hythe, race undetermined, 11th-20th January.
1993	River Stour, Sandwich, race undetermined, 2nd November.
1994	Kearnsey, nr. Dover, nominate Black-bellied race C.c.cinclus, 1st January to mid-February, and again on 19th March.
	River Stour, Chilham, nominate Black-bellied race C.c.cinclus, 12th March.
1999	Herne Bay, race undetermined, 22nd December.
2004	Furnace Pond, near Cowden, race undetermined, 23rd April.