RICHARD'S PIPIT (Anthus richardi)

Rare Passage Migrant

1868 Dover, single bird, 21st October.
1889 Dover, single bird, mid-November.
1890 Dover, single bird, 21st October.
1903 East Kent, bird killed against lantern of the Kentish Knock Lightship, 25th September.
1946 Sandwich, single bird, 27th September.
1950 Shellness, single bird, 23rd April.
1960 Allhallows, single bird, 23rd April.
1961 Halstow Marshes, single bird, 3rd January.
1963 Sandwich Bay, single bird, 29th September.
1967 Sandwich Bay, single bird, 30th October.
1968 Dungeness BO, single bird, 15th September.
  Sandwich Bay, single bird, 6th October.
  Cliffe Marshes, single bird, 14th-16th November.
1969 Foreness, single bird, 18th-19th September.
1970 Windmill Creek, Sheppey, single bird, 4th November.
  Dungeness, single bird, 15th November.
1971 Sandwich Bay, single bird, 8th May.
1972 Swanscombe Marsh, single bird, 15th April.
1976 Sandwich Bay, single bird, 3rd October.
1978 Sandwich Bay, single bird, 6th May.
  Foreness, single bird, 11th-17th December.
1979 Sandwich Bay, single bird, 18th November.
1981 Ramsgate, single bird, 21st-23rd October.
1982 Foreness, single bird, 20th September.
  Foreness, three birds, 22nd October.
  Sandwich Bay, single bird, 23rd October.
  Foreness, single bird, 25th October. Possibly one of previous, but counted as seperate.
1983 Foreness,five birds, including four off sea, 30th September.
  Foreness, single bird,1st October.
  Foreness, two birds, 3rd October.
  Foreness, two birds, 21st October.
1984 Margate, single bird, 17th May.
  North Foreland, single bird, 8th-11th October.
  Foreness, single bird, 9th October.
  Sandwich Bay, single bird, 9th October.
  Foreness, single bird, 11th October.
1985 Sandwich Bay, single bird, 22nd October.
1986 St. Margaret's, single bird, 27th September.
  Sandwich Bay, single bird, 2nd October.
1987 Foreness, single bird, 16th September.
  Kingsnorth (Medway), two birds, 21st-28th September.
  Sandwich Bay, single bird, 2nd October.
  Sandwich Bay, single bird, 7th October.
  Foreness, single bird, 25th October.
  Foreness, single bird, 28th-31st October.
  Sandwich Bay, single bird, 12th-31st December.
1988 Dungeness, single bird, 10th September.
  Dartford Marshes, single bird, 29th September.
  North Foreland, single bird, 16th-17th October.
  Whiteness, nr. Foreness, single bird, 5th November.
  Foreness, single bird, 24th-26th November.
1989 Minnis Bay, single bird, 4th October.
  Foreness, single bird, 17th October.
  Sandwich Bay, single bird, 22nd October.
1990 Church Hougham, Dover, single bird, 22nd September.
  Swalecliffe, single bird, 22nd September.
  North Foreland, single bird, 23rd-29th October.
1991 Elmley RSPB Reserve, single bird, 9th May.
  Herne Bay, single bird, 10th May.
  Foreness, single bird, 13th October.
  Abbotscliffe, two birds, 21st October, with one bird remaining until 22nd.
  Sandwich Bay, single bird, 10th-11th November.
  Pegwell Bay, single bird, 14th November.
1992 Reculver, single bird, 27th September.
  Sandwich Bay, single bird, 29th September to 1st October.
  Sandwich Bay, single bird, 30th September to 1st October.
  Foreness, single bird, 3rd October.
  Foreness, single bird, 13th October.
  Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 31st October until 6th November.
  Sandwich Bay, single bird, 8th November.
1993 Foreness, single bird, 30th September.
  St. Margaret's, single bird, 11th November.
  Reculver, two birds just east of Towers, behind sea wall, 16th September.
1994 Higham Bight , single bird, 27th-29th September.
  Abbotscliffe, two birds, 1st October.
  Abbotscliffe, single bird, 24th October.
  Cliffe Pools, single bird, 29th-31st October.
  Reculver, single bird, 5th-8th November.
1995 Minnis Bay, single bird, 7th May.
  Sandwich Bay, single bird, 10th-13th May.
  Bockhill, single bird, 17th September.
  Sandwich Bay, single bird, 22nd-23rd September.
  St. Margaret's, single bird, 25th September.
  Shellness, single bird, 1st-8th October.
  Ash Levels, Lower Stour, single bird, 26th October.
  Grain Marshes, single bird, 29th October.
1996 Swalecliffe, single bird, 25th September.
  Bockhill, single bird, flew south-west, 17th September.
1997 St. Margaret's, single bird, flew in off sea, 5th May.
1998 Pegwell Bay, single bird, 18th October.
1999 Elmley RSPB, single bird, 13th October.
  Bockhill, single bird, 14th-15th November.
  Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 16th November.
2000 Bockhill, single bird, 23rd April.
  Dungeness Bird Observatory, single bird, 14th October.
  Swalecliffe, single bird briefly, before flying off north, 13th November.
2001 Foreness, three birds, 26th September, with two remaining until 28th, and one until 29th.
2002 Abbottscliffe, single bird, flew east, 4th October.
2003 Abbottscliffe, single bird, 19th October.
2004 Dungeness Bird Observatory, single bird, 3rd October.
  Foreness, single bird, 11th October.
  Kingsdown, single bird, 11th October, .
  Kingsdown, two birds, 12th-15th October, .
  Abbotscliffe, single bird, 15th-16th October, with a second bird on the 17th.
  Pegwell Bay, single bird, 3rd December.
2005 Abbottscliffe, single bird, 3rd October.
  Kingsgate, single bird flew through, 5th October.
  Kingsgate, single bird, 6th-8th October, different to the bird of the 5th.
  Pegwell Bay, single bird, 6th October.
  St. Margaret's, single bird, 13th October.
  Dungeness Bird Observatory, single bird, 15th October.
  Kingsgate, single bird, 18th October.
  Capel Fleet, single bird, 10th December.
2007 Bockhill, single bird, 22nd October.
  Cliffe Fort, single bird, 11th November.
2008 Abbottscliffe, single bird, 9th October.
  Sandwich Bay, single bird, present early morning, 2nd December.
2009 Bockhill, single bird flew SW, 27th October.
2010 Sandwich Bay, single bird, 19th October.
2011 Abbottscliffe, single bird, 17th October.