GOSHAWK (Accipiter gentilis)

Uncommon Vagrant

pre-1792 The ornithologist Boys list a single record prior to this year, though no further details are known.
1844 Swingfield Minnis, single bird, shot, date unknown.
pre-1893 Lydd, single bird, shot, date unknown.
pre 1899 Fredville, adult female, shot, date unknown..
1950 Cowden, female, 7th October.
1954 Site withheld, adult, 11th September.
  Another, same site, immature, 15th December.
1955 Site withheld, probably same bird as December previous year, 2nd April.
1958 Same site as 1954 and 1955, female, 11th October.
1962 Sandwich Bay, single females, 22nd April and 10th June, possibly same bird.
1965 Leysdown/Capel Hill, single bird, 25th June..
  Northward Hill, 14th-21st November.
1966 High Halstow, female trapped and ringed, 20th November.
1967 Northward Hill, female, 29th January.
  Northward Hill, possibly same female, three occasions between 5th February and 4th March.
1968 Sandwich Bay, single bird, 6th October.
1970 Sandwich Bay, single bird, 18th October.
1977 Reculver, female, 1st December.
1978 St. Margaret's , single bird, 29th October.
1979 Stodmarsh, single bird, 4th April.
1980 Sandwich Bay, one in off sea, 19th October.
1982 Ightham, single bird taking Wood Pigeon, 5th November.
1983 Foreness, single bird found dead, 12th April.
  Wye, single bird, picked up injured, 26th December.
1984 Shorne, single bird, 30th October.
1986 Warehorne, female, 24th April.
1988 Godmersham, single bird, 8th February.
  Conningbrook, single bird, 26th February.
  Foreness, single bird west, 1st April.
  Seaton, single bird, 2nd November.
  Dungeness, single bird west, 31st October.
1991 West recording area, site withheld, male displaying, 14th January.
  St. Margaret's, immature south-west, 16th March.
  Bough Beech, female, 10th April.
  Stodmarsh, single bird, 8th September.
  St. Margaret's, male, 8th October.
1992 West Malling, immature taking Blackbird, 5th March.
1994 West recording area, site withheld, throughout year. Pair probably bred.
1995 West recording area, same site as 1994 withheld, Pair throughout year. Probably bred.
  East recording area, site withheld, male displaying,12th April
  Central recording area, site withheld, male displaying, 13th September.
1996 West recording area, same site as 1994 and 1995 withheld, Pair throughout year. Probably bred.
  Barksore, single bird, 23rd February.
  Reculver, single bird, 14th-15th September.
  Dungeness Reserve, single bird, 25th October.
1997 Reculver, female, 9th February.
1998 Dungeness Observatory, male, 7th April.
1999 Cliffe Pools, single bird, 19th March.
  Grove Ferry, single bird, 16th April.
  Hadlow, single bird, 10th May.
  Dungeness, single bird, 25th May.
  West, single bird, 19th August.
  Grain, single bird, 22nd September.
2005 Northdown Park, 31st January .
2007 New Barn, 14th December.