NIGHT HERON (Nycticorax nycticorax)
Rare but regular vagrant
| 1839 | Near Lydd, 24th May, now at Dover museum. |
| 1890 | Milton decoy, shot, winter. |
| 1947 | Near Brookland, Romney Marsh, adult male, 11th May. |
| 1951 | Romney Marsh, 4th May. |
| 1953 | Sheerness, immature, 16th October to 11th November. |
| 1955 | Angley Lake, Cranbrook, immature, 6th August to 6th September. |
| 1958 | Mersham, nr. Ashford, immature, dead, 10th February. |
| 1968 | Murston, adult,17th April. |
| Stodmarsh, adult, 18th-19th June. | |
| 1969 | Stodmarsh, 23rd-30th July. |
| Stodmarsh, 19th August. | |
| Stodmarsh, 23rd-24th September. | |
| 1970 | Yalding, immature, 2nd May. |
| 1971 | Faversham, adult, 2nd April, died 14th, now in Harrison Museum, Sevenoaks. |
| 1973 | Cottington Court, 27th June. |
| 1974 | Walland Marsh, immature, 2nd October. |
| 1978 | Richborough, adult, 4th June. |
| Sevenoaks, second-year, 17th July. | |
| 1982 | Sandwich Bay, juvenile, 23rd October. |
| 1983 | St. Margaret's Bay, adult, 29th May. |
| 1984 | Ashford, adult, 29th May. |
| 1985 | Stodmarsh, adult, 16th May; presumed same Westbere 18th. |
| 1987 | Sevenoaks, adult, 1st-4th May. |
| Lydd, first-summer, 16th May. | |
| Bough Beech Reservoir, first-summer, 24th May. | |
| Foreness, first-summer, 29th May. | |
| Stodmarsh, first-summer, 18th August. | |
| 1989 | Sevenoaks, adult or second-summer, 28th August and 3rd September. |
| 1990 | Dymchurch, adult, 25th March. |
| Dungeness, adult, 16th April. | |
| Dungeness, two adults, 29th April, same Lade, also 29th. | |
| 1993 | Dungeness, second-summer, 26th May. |
| Ham Fen, second-summer, 28th May. | |
| 1994 | Dungeness, first-summer, 5th June. |
| 1996 | Dungeness, two adults, 28th April to 9th August. |
| 1997 | Dungeness, sub-adult, 15th-17th June. |
| Cranbrook, adult, 12th July to 23rd August. | |
| 1998 | Sevenoaks,
juvenile, 7th-16th November.  |
| 1999 | Dungeness,
two adults, one second-summer, 10th-11th April. |
| Dungeness, first-summer, 30th April. | |
| Appledore, adult, 16th-24th May. | |
| 2004 | Bockhill, sub-adult flew south-west, 20th December. |
| 2005 | Boughton Park, first summer, 28th May. |
| 2006 | Dungeness, single bird on Long Pits, later flew to Oppen Pits, 28th April. |
| 2008 | Military Canal, West Hythe, adult, 22nd November to year end. |
| 2009 | Military Canal, West Hythe, adult, from November 2008, remained until 24th January, when it flew south. |
| No Longer Accepted | |
| 1883 | Plumstead Marshes, immature male, shot, 3rd December. NB: not in modern Kent. |
