NUTCRACKER (Nucifraga caryocatactes)

Rare Vagrant, except in explosion years

pre-1781	No locality, no date.
pre-1816	Darenth, no date, now at Natural History Museum, Tring.
1841	Sackett's Hill, Broadstairs, seen, no date.
1885	Strode Park, Herne, 15th-17th November, when shot.
1904	Godlands, Tovil, seen, November.
1907	Riverhill, Sevenoaks, year unknown but prior to 1909.
1908	Riverhill, Sevenoaks, year unknown but prior to 1909 and year following previous record.
1911	Broom Park, nr. Canterbury, male, found dying, early October, now at Royal Canterbury Museum.
	Broom Park, nr. Canterbury, 18th November, now at Maidstone College.
1953	Ashley, 25th December.
1963	Springhead, Northfleet, trapped, 26th August.
1967	Dungeness, 5th September.
1968	Denton, 7th August.
	Quex Park, Birchington, 9th August.
	Foreness Point, Margate, 22nd-23rd August.
	Dover, four together, 24th August.
	Quex Park, Birchington, 25th August to 3rd September, and same bird, Westwood, Margate, 4th-7th September.
	Sandwich, 26th-31st August.
	Broadstairs, 6th-27th August.
	Mersham, nr. Ashford, 28th August.
	Chalk,Gravesend, 28th August.
	Doddington, trappedand ringed, 30th August to11th September.
	Worth, 1st September.
	Fordwich, 2nd September.
	Hoath and East Blean Woods, 3rd and 5th September.
	Sandwich, 7th and 18th September.
	Eastling, 11th September.
	Bicknor, 17th September.
	Nonington, three dates between 21st and 30th September.
	Gillingham, 29th September.
	Sandwich, 7th October.
	Tunbridge Wells, 14th-20th October.
	High Halstow, 24th October.
	Deal, 2nd-4th November.
	Bearsted, 16th November, until autumn 1969.
	Maidstone, 23rd November to 5th March 1969.
	Gillingham, 10th and 14th December.
	Lenham, 14th December.
1969	Minster, Sheppey, 9th February.
	Thornden Wood, Canterbury, 22nd-25th June.
	Dungeness, 25th and 27th September.
1972	Bedgebury, two, 27th December.
1985	Northwood Hill, 23rd October.
1998	Kingsdown, 6th-7th September.