RED-NECKED PHALAROPE

(Phalaropus lobatus)

Rare Spring & Scarce Autumn Passage Migrant

c.1844	Romney Marsh, shot, no date given.
1861	Dover, no date given.
1867	Elmley, immature, shot, November.
1871	Isle of Grain, immature, shot, 26th September. Thought to be from this year. Now in British Museum (Natural History).
	Rainham fleets, immature female, shot, 28th September.
1905	Hoppen Pits, Dungeness, adult pair, shot, May.
1906	Hoppen Pits, Dungeness, adult male, shot, 1st May.
1908	Cheyne Court Farm, Walland Marsh, single bird, 8th June.
1915	Sturry, shot, 10th November.
1936	Hoo, single bird, 1st November.
1939	Sheppey, single bird, 30th August.
1949	Midrips, single bird, 13th-14th September.
1951	Midrips, single bird, 6th October.
1952	Dungeness, single bird, 26th October.
1957	The Brooks, Dungeness, single bird, 4th October.
1959	Minnis Bay, juvenile, 30th August.
1962	Grove, two birds, 26th June.
1963	Walland Marsh , single bird, 30th August.
1964	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 8th-24th August.
1965	The Wicks, Dungeness, single bird, 28th August.
1966	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 23rd August.
1967	Cliffe Pools, single bird, 21st and 28th August.
1968	Windmill Creek , single bird, 3rd August.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 26th-27th September.
1975	Sandwich Bay, summer plumage female, 26th-30th May.
1976	Pegwell Bay, single bird, 6th and 8th November.
1977	Bough Beech, single bird, photographed, 19th-20th August.
1979	Cliffe Pools, single bird, 19th August.
1980	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 9th August.
1981	Elmley, single birds on 28th June to 3rd July, 10th August, and 30th August to 12th September.
	Dungeness Pits, single birds on 17th August and 5th September.
	Dover, injured bird, 11th October.
1982	Dungeness, single bird, 3rd May.
	Bewl Bridge, single bird, ca.20th July.
	Elmley, single bird, 5th-11th November.
	Dungeness Pits, single bird, 5th-6th October.
1983	Cliffe Pools, single bird, 22nd-30th August.
1984	Elmley, 2-3 birds from 1st-9th August, with maximum of 4 birds on 3rd.
	Stoke Lagoon , single bird, 18th-19th August.
1985	Elmley, single birds on 21st-26th June, 28th September to 7th October, with two birds on 8th October.
1986	Yantlet Creek, single bird, 30th May.
1987	Elmley, single bird, 18th-26th September.
1988	Cliffe Pools, single bird, 22nd June.
	Bough Beech, single bird, 30th August.
1989	Cliffe Pools, single bird, 7th-8th June.
	Nr. New Romney, , single bird, 31st August to 13th September.
	Dungeness Reserve, single bird, 21st-24th September.
1990	Elmley, single bird, 14th June.
1991	Oare, single bird, 3rd-5th June.
	Cliffe Pools, juvenile, 15th August.
1992	Cliffe Pools, transitional adult, 19th-26th August.
	Stodmarsh, transitional adult, 21st-25th August.
	Bough Beech, juvenile, 27th August.
	Stodmarsh, juvenile, 4th-5th September.
	Cliffe Pools, juvenile, 9th and 11th September.
1993	ARC Pits, Dungeness, first-year bird, 3rd-20th October.
1994	Swale NNR, single bird, 16th August.
	Elmley, single bird, 25th August to 2nd September.
1995	Cliffe Pools, juvenile, 7th-16th September.
1996	Pegwell Bay, single bird, 14th September.
	Fairfields, Upstreet, juvenile, 21st-28th September.
1997	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 18th-22nd September, with another, 30th September to 3rd October.
1998	Swale NNR, moulting male, 4th May.
	Cliffe Pools, female, 17th-23rd July.
1999	Grove Ferry, juvenile, 11th-15th August.
	Cliffe Quarries, juvenile, 22nd August.
	Elmley Reserve, juvenile, 25th August to 2nd September.
	Swale NNR, juvenile, 28th August.
	Elmley Reserve, juvenile, 14th-26th September.
	Hoo Peninsula , juvenile, 15th-20th September.
	Dungeness Reserve, two juveniles, 30th September.
2000	Elmley NNR, female, 2nd-20th July.
	Oare, two juveniles, 20th-22nd September.
2001	Cliffe Pools, moulted adult, 15th-20th August.
	Oare, 9th September.
	Reculver, 11th-16th September.
	Lade, 20th-24th September.
2002	Oare, juvenile, 9th September.
2003	New Downs Pool, 14th September.
2005	Oare, female, 16th-18th May.
	Elmley, adult, 23rd July to 4th August.
2007	Chetney, 12th-17th August.