GREAT WHITE EGRET (Egretta alba)

Vagrant

1977 Stodmarsh, 5th may; later same day at St. Margaret's Bay.
1988 Dungeness, 3rd August.
1990 Dungeness, 8th August;presumed same, Stodmarsh 23rd August to mid-October, also in Sussex.
1995 Dungeness, 13th August. Click for photo
1996 Bough Beech Reservoir, 5th-14th January; same as East Sussex, West Sussex, and Hampshire.
1998 Dungeness, 8th-14th July.
1999 Elmley, 6th August.
2000 Bough Beech Reservoir, 2nd September; possibly same as East Sussex, 30th July.
  Dungeness, 22nd October; presumed same, Walland Marsh, 25th-28th.
  Newenden, 13th-16th December.
2002 Elmley, 11th-26th August.
  Capel Fleet, 20th October.
2003 Scotney GP, colour-ringed bird, 12th-17th July, and again Dungeness RSPB, 21st July. Click for photo
  Pegwell Bay, 22nd August, flew off North-East.
2004 Bough Beech, 31st August to 1st September, had been colour-ringed as nestling at Lac du Grand-Lieu in western France on 15th May 2004. It was later seen in South Yorkshire on 2nd-22nd September.
  Cliffe Pools, 1st September, also colour-ringed. It was later seen at Rye Harbour on 26th September.
2005 Seaton, single birds reported on 15th January, 13th February, and 12th March, probably same individual.
  Elmley, 3 birds, 17th October.
  Dungeness, same 3 birds flew SE out to sea, 18th October.
2006 Harty Ferry, 8th-9th February.
  Grove Ferry, 9th July.
  Seasalter, 11th September.
2007 Dungeness, 15th August.