GREAT REED WARBLER

(Acrocephalus arundinaceus)

Rare Vagrant

1853	Sittingbourne, 4th May.
1881	Near Wingham, shot, 14th September, now at Canterbury museum.
1937	Appledore, 2nd August.
1950	Stodmarsh, male, in song, 20th May to 4th June.
1959	Dungeness, trapped, 3rd August.
1960	Stodmarsh, 30th-31st May.
1962	Sandwich Bay, trapped, 12th-13th May.
	Sandwich Bay, trapped, 19th August.
1963	Sandwich Bay, trapped, 14th-15th May.
	Dungeness, trapped, 1st June.
1965	Stodmarsh, 13th June.
1969	Stodmarsh, 24th May.
	Dungeness, trapped, 31st May to 1st June.
1971	Sandwich Bay, trapped, 16th May.
	Stodmarsh, 18th May.
	Dungeness, 23rd August.
1972	Stodmarsh, in song, 11th June.
	Elmstone, 20th August.
1973	Sandwich Bay, trapped, 5th May.
1974	Stodmarsh, 26th May.
1978	Dungeness, 6th May.
	Stodmarsh, in song, 1st-2nd June.
1982	Elmley, in song, 29th May.
1992	St. Mary's Marshes, 21st May.
1993	Dungeness, at Boulderwall Farm, in song, 23rd May.
	Elmley, in song, 27th May to 3rd July.
1994	Dungeness, in song, 24th-25th May.
	Elmley, in song, 12th-25th June, carrying nesting material 19th.
1996	Elmley, in song, 30th May to 16th June.
1998	Dengemarsh, 4th-5th October.
1999	Dungeness, in song, 28th May; presumed same bird, 8th June.
2002	Grove Ferry, 7th June.
2003	Dungeness, 15th May.
2005	Dungeness, 18th May.
2006	Sandwich Bay, 15th June.
2007	Lydd, singing male, 10th-20th June.
No Longer Accepted
1852	Near Dartford, male, shot, 8th May.