GREAT SNIPE (Gallinago media)

Rare Vagrant

1842 Nr. Reculver, shot, 9th September.
1872 Luddenham Marshes, nr. Faversham, immature female, ca. 12th September.
1894 Ham, nr. Eastry, shot, 1st October.
1912 Tunbridge Wells, two, 3rd-4th February.
1919 Thanet, shot, late December.
1931 Brookland, male, shot, 9th September.
1935 Stour Marshes, 25th September.
1951 Dungeness, 4th October.
1953 No locality, September.
  No locality, December.
1968 Medway, 2nd August.
  Dymchurch, 27th December.
1975 Sevenoaks, 3rd-15th September.
1978 Westbere, 9th April.
1983 St. Margaret's Bay, 1st October.
1997 Chetney, 24th August.
1998 Walland Marsh, 9th October.
   
No Longer Accepted
1906 Brookland, 5th October.