RED-BREASTED FLYCATCHER

(Ficedula parva)

Scarce autumn migrant; very rare in spring

1943 Medhurst Row, nr. Bough Beech, single bird, 8th May.
1951 Brookland, single bird, 6th September.
  Herne Bay, pair seen on 11th September, with the female remaining until 13th.
1953 Sandwich Bay, single bird, 3rd October.
1954 Dungeness, adult female trapped, 24th October.
1958 Allhallows, male, 17th September.
1959 East Malling, male, 24th September.
  Shellness, Sheppey, female, 5th-6th October.
1960 Sandwich bay, trapped, 1st October.
  Dungeness, trapped, 19th-22nd October.
  Dungeness, another trapped, 21st-23rd October.
1962 Sandwich Bay, two, one trapped, 4th October.
  Dungeness, first-winter trapped, 8th October.
1963 Dungeness, trapped, 24th October.
  Sandwich bay, trapped, 26th October.
1964 Dungeness, first-winter trapped, 7th October.
1965 Dungeness, single bird, 4th September.
  Sandwich Bay, single bird, 16th September.
  Sandwich Bay, single bird, 1st October.
1966 Sandwich bay, trapped, 13th October.
1967 Dungeness, single bird, 12th October.
1968 Trottiscliffe, two, including adult male, 22nd August.
  Dungeness, immature, 10th-12th September.
  Dungeness, another immature, 1st November.
1969 Dungeness, trapped, 12th-15th October.
1970 Dungeness, female trapped, 19th May.
  Sandwich Bay, adult male, 3rd October.
  Sandwich Bay, immature trapped, 10th-11th October.
  Sandwich Bay, another immature, 15th October.
1971 Dungeness, trapped, 3rd and 6th September.
  Broadstairs, single bird, 29th October.
1972 Ramsgate Cemetery, single bird, 6th September.
  Shellness, Sheppey, single bird, 1st October.
  Shellness, Sheppey, another bird, 14th October.
1973 Sandwich Bay, female, 11th and 14th May, probably refer to same bird.
  Seasalter, immature, 7th September.
  Shellness, Sheppey, another bird, 14th October.
1974 French Street, Westerham, singl bird on the unusaul date of 18th July.
  Dungeness, single bird, 17th September.
  Sandwich Bay, trapped, 4th October.
  Dungeness, trapped, 17th October.
1975 Sandwich Bay, May, 17th May.
  Aycliffe, male, 29th August.
  Sandwich Bay, singles daily 9th-12th October, with a minimum of three birds present, one being trapped on 9th.
1976 Sandwich Bay, single bird, 26th August.
  Dungeness, first-year trapped, 27th September.
  Dungeness, a second first-year trapped, 3rd-4th October.
  Dungeness, a third first-year trapped, 5th-7th October.
1977 St. Margaret's, single bird, 6th-7th October.
1978 Dungeness, female trapped, 27th May.
  Sandwich Bay, immature trapped, 7th October.
  Dungeness, a third first-year trapped, 5th-7th October.
1979 Sandwich Bay, trapped, 27th October.
  St. Margaret's, single bird, 27th-28th October.
1980 Sandwich Bay, single bird, 1st October.
  Shellness, single bird, 11th-12th October.
1981 Ramsgate, single bird, 4th November.
1982 St. Margaret's, single bird, 24th October.
1983 Sandwich Bay, male, 18th May.
  Dungeness, juvenile trapped, 24th-25th September.
  St. Margaret's, two, probably three, 2nd October.
1984 Foreness, male trapped, 20th-22nd May.
  Dungeness, first-year trapped, 25th September.
  Sandwich Bay, first-year, 4th october, with another on 6th.
  Foreness, single bird, 6th-7th October, with two others on 12th and 14th.
  Ramsgate, single bird, 6th-10th October.
1985 Ramsgate Cemetery, single bird, 15th October.
  Foreness, single bird, 16th-17th October.
  Dungeness, trapped, 16th-19th October.
  Sandwich Bay, trapped, 28th October.
1986 Foreness, single bird, 26th September, with another on 28th.
  Sandwich Bay, single bird, 26th September.
  St. Margaret's, single bird, 26th-28th September.
  Foreness, single bird, 4th October.
  Sandwich Bay, single bird, 12th October.
1987 Warden Point, Sheppey, probably a first-summer male, 17th August.
  Warden Point, Sheppey, immature or female, 1st September.
  Foreness, up to four birds in the area, 30th September.
1988 Ramsgate Cemetery, single bird, 17th September.
  Dungeness, single bird, 17th September.
  Bishopstone, single bird, 18th September.
1989 Sandwich Bay, first-spring male, 29th May.
  Sandwich Bay, single bird, 28th September.
  Kingsgate, Thanet, single bird, 3rd October.
1991 Bishopstone, single bird, 29th September.
  Sandwich Bay, single bird, 11th October.
1992 Sandwich Bay, single birds, 20th September, and 2nd October.
  Minnis Bay, single bird, 3rd October.
  Port Regis, Kingsgate, single bird, 8th-9th October.
1993 Bishopstone, single bird, 18th October.
  Minnis Bay, single bird, 18th October.
  St. Margaret's, two birds, occasionally seen together, 27th-31st October.
1994 Warden point, adult male, 21st-22nd September.
  St. Margaret's, single bird, 2nd November.
1995 Dungeness, first-year male in song, trapped, 2nd June.
  Minnis Bay, male, 19th-22nd September.
  Foreness, three birds, 31st October, one remaining until 1st November.
1996 Foreness, single bird, 25th August.
  Shuart, Minnis Bay, single bird, 19th-20th September.
  Sandwich Bay, single bird, 23rd-24th September.
  Chambers Wall, Reculver, adult male, 19th-23rd September.
1997 Warden Point, Sheppey, single bird, 22nd-24th October.
  Minster, Sheppey, single bird, 24th October.
1998 Warden Point, Sheppey, single birds on 23rd September and 9th October.
1999 Bockhil, two birds, 13th-14th October.
  Dungeness, single bird, 15th October.
  Bishopstone, single bird, 19th-20th October.
2001 Dungeness, single bird trapped, 5th October.
2004 Bockhill, single bird, 26th September.
  St. Margaret's, single bird, 10th October.
  Foreness, single bird, 11th October.
2005 Kingsgate, Thanet, single bird, 6th October.
2008 Dungeness, single bird, 25th May.
  Dungeness, single bird, 26th-27th October.
2009 Dungeness, single bird, 15th September.
  Dungeness, single bird, 13th October.