LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER

(Limnodromus scolopaceus)

Rare Vagrant

1946 Brookland, 9th-13th October.
1981 Elmley,7th-19th July.
1984 Dungeness, first-winter, 30th September.
1990 Dungeness, 2nd December to 19th January 1991.
1997 Elmley,adult, intermittently,8th July to 7th December; same, Swale 15th-21st July. Click for photo 
1998 Elmley,4th-15th July,24th October; same, Oare Marshes,18th July intermittently to 11th October; presumed returning bird from 1997.Click for photo
  Pegwell Bay, juvenile, 15th October.
1999 Grove Ferry, 20th February intermittently to 24th April.
  Elmley,adult, 31st march to 28th April; same Oare Marshes, 15th July to 24th August; presumed returning 1998 bird. Click for photo
2000 Elmley,adult, 23rd January, 12th March, 8th-29th April, 30th July to 11th August, and again at Bedlam's Bottom on 16th August, same as 1999 bird. Click for photo 
2001 Oare Marshes, adult, 7th July to 6th September; presumed same bird as Elmley 2000. Click for photo
2006 Oare Marshes, juvenile/first winter, 2nd October until April 2007.
2007 Oare Marshes, juvenile/first winter, from October 2006 until 12th April.
  Bough Beech Reservoir, juvenile, 29th September to 2nd October.
  Minnis Bay, juvenile, 3rd October.
  Oare Marshes, juvenile, 5th-16th October.