GLOSSY IBIS (Plegadis falcinellus)

Rare Vagrant

1830 Blendon Hall Park, Bexley, April.
1852 Near Reading Street, Tenterden, shot, December.
1902 Romney Marsh, four, one shot, mid-September; remaining birds shot 14th October.
1903 Rother Levels, nr. Wittershaam, four, last three weeks of September, immature male shot, 14th, all gone by 25th October.
1916 Near Sturry, January.
1974 Swanscombe Marsh, 11th April to 12th May. Click for photo
1975 Stodmarsh, 14th December. Click for photo
1976 Stodmarsh, 21st January and through spring and summer, later at Grove/Preston until May 1977.
1977 Grove, 2nd January and between there and Stodmarsh until 12th March, 30th April, again 1st May to 19th June and 24th September until the end of the yeaar. Also seen on Sheppey, 15th May, 27th August and 1st and 4th September, and at Graveney on 25th September. All same as 1975 individual.
1978 Swale, 1st January; Stodmrsh, 7th January to 14th may; Westbere, 10th June; Sheppey, 28th August; Minster 3rd September; Ash Level, 4th September; Stodmarsh, 9th September to end of year, same as 1975 individual.
1979 Stodmarsh, 13th January to 29th June and 10th August to end of year; another, 28th October to end of year; Sandwich Bay, 4th may, 17th November; Swale, occasionally, 19th April to 7th October, same as 1975 individual
  Stodmarsh, another, 28th October to end of year.
1980 Stodmarsh, two, 1st January to 21st May and 26th September to end of year; Elmley, 11th May to 7th September, two, 30th July 7th September, same as 1975 and 1975 individuals.
1981 Stodmarsh, two, since 1980 to end of April and from late August to end of year, summering on Sheppey, but absent during early May.
1982 Stodmarsh, two, since 1975 and 1979, to early April, 8th September and from early October to end of year, summering on Sheppey.
1983 Stodmarsh, two, since 1975 and 1979, to 6th March and from 27th-28th August and 1st September to end of year, summering on Sheppey.
1984 Stodmarsh, two, since 1975 and 1979, to 12th April and 13th October to end of year, summering on Sheppey, 14th April to 22nd July.
1985 Stodmarsh and Stour Valley area, two since 1975 and 1979, to 3rd February, one to 9th April; one 25th October to end of year; one of same, Sheppey, 6th May to 17th August.
1986 Stodmarsh and Stour Valley area, one of 1985 individuals, 1st January to 16th April, 24th October to end of year; same, Sheppey 4th June to 24th August.
  Dungeness, 6th October.
1987 Seaton, two,25th April, probably same as East Sussex individuals, 25th-27th.
  Stodmarsh, 1986 individual, 1st January to 1st March, 24th October to end of year; same, Seasalter, 31st January, and Sheppey, 29th May to 18th August.
1988 Stodmarsh area, 1987 individual, 1st January to 15th April, 25th October to end of year; same, Sheppey, 14th and 30th May.
1989 Stodmarsh area, 1988 individual, 1st January to 7th May, 24th June, 31st July to end of year; same, Elmley and Sheppey area, 18th May to 2nd August.
1990 Brookland, 14th May, presumed not Stodmarsh bird.
  Stodmarsh area, 1989 individual, 1st January to mid-March, intermittently May to end of August, regularly to end of year; same, Sheppey, 20th April.
1991 Stodmarsh area, 1990 individual January to March, 27th-28th April, regularly in May, 16th August to end of year; same, Elmley, 17th-18th May, 27th-30th June.
1992 Stodmarsh area, since 1991 to 4th April, 1st August to 1993; same Sheppey, 21st-28th March, 29th April to 31st May, 18th-22nd July.
2001 Dungeness/Lydd area, 24th-25th October.