FERRUGINOUS DUCK (Aythya nyroca)

Rare Vagrant and occasional escape

1960	Dungeness, first-winter male, 8th November to 4th December.
1967	Stodmarsh, 18th August.
1974	Bough Beech Reservoir, adult male, 3rd November.
1978	Grain, male, 3rd January.
	Sevenoaks Wildfowl Reserve, two males, 3rd-7th July. One remained until 7th December.
	Stonar Lake, Sandwich, male, 27th July.
1979	Stodmarsh, male, 13th January.
	Otford, male, 13th January.
	Murston Pits, pair, 3rd February.
	Bough Beech Reservoir, male, 23rd October.
1980	Dungeness RSPB, male, seen on various pits in the area, 27th January to 22nd May .
1981	Chilham Lakes, male, 17th January to 8th March. Also seen at Seaton.
	Bough Beech Reservoir, male, 27th March to 7th April.
	Dungeness RSPB, female, 26th April to 9th May.
	Dungeness RSPB, immature, 12th-16th November.
1987	Dungeness RSPB, ecclipse male, 30th July to 30th August.
1995	Mosco Pool, Grain, adult female, 6th February to 4th March.
	Mosco Pool, Grain, adult female, 30th July to 4th August, presumed same bird as earlier record.
1995	Boughton Park and Weirton Hill Farm, seen 2nd-11th November, then 15th November, and finally 2nd December.
1996	Thanington Lakes, Canterbury, male, 18th February.
	New Hythe Lakes, female, 28th December to 28th January 1997.
1998	Ham Road Pits, male, 17th December.
1999	Eastwell Lake, male, 1st-3rd January.
	Seaton Gravel Pits, male, 9th-16th January, presumed same bird as Eastwell Lake.
	Stodmarsh, male, 24th January, presumed same bird as Eastwell and Seaton.
2003	Abbey Meads Lake, New Hythe, adult female, 19th December.
2005	New Hythe, first winter, 11th December to year end.
2006	New Hythe, same bird as 2005, remained until 18th March, with perhaps the same bird returning to Leybourne/Snodland area from 11th October until 22nd December.
2007	New Hythe, same bird moulted into adult plumage, remained until 12th March, with presumably the same returning briefly on 27th July.
2008	Westbere Lakes, male, 29th December.