STORM PETREL (Hydrobates pelagicus)

Rare Passage Vagrant

1952 Lower Hope Point, 3rd November.
1953 Royal Sovereign Lightship, 14th-16th November.
  Dungeness Peninsula, 15th December.
1954 South Goodwin Lightship, two, 6th November.
  South Goodwin Lightship, 20th November.
  South Goodwin Lightship, 25th November.
1957 Shellness, Isle of Sheppey, two, 13th October.
1959 Cliffe Pools , two, 1st November.
1960 Dungeness Peninsula, 3rd April.
1961 Reculver, 14th October.
1964 Maidstone, found dead, 17th October.
1967 Stodmarsh, one east, 9th January.
1970 Dungeness Peninsula, found exhausted, 11th October.
  Shellness, Isle of Sheppey, two, 21st October. Presumably same seen later at North Foreland.
1971 Shellness, Isle of Sheppey, three, 10th October.
  Shellness, Isle of Sheppey, 11th October.
  Shellness, Isle of Sheppey, 19th October.
1973 Shellness, Isle of Sheppey, two, 8th December.
1974 Dover, 12th October.
  Shellness, Isle of Sheppey, 30th October.
1975 Shellness, Isle of Sheppey, 9th November.
  Gravesend, 9th November.
1977 Dover Harbour, 27th November.
1978 Allhallows, 30th September.
  Shellness, Isle of Sheppey, 16th December.
1979 Dover, found on Dover-Boulogne ferry, 13th December. Released next day.
1980 Foreness, 11th October.
  Shellness, Isle of Sheppey, five, 11th October.
  Seasalter, 11th October.
  Dungeness Peninsula, 26th October.
1981 Dungeness Peninsula, 26th December.
1982 Dover, 4th October.
  Sandwich Bay, one north, 7th October.
1983 Dartford, 7th September.
  Dungeness Peninsula, 15th October.
  Lower Hope Point, 6th November.
1984 Minnis Bay, 5th November.
1985 Sandwich Bay, 5th November.
  Foreness, 10th November.
  Foreness, 18th November.
  Foreness, 27th December.
1986 Dungeness Peninsula, one west, 13th September.
  Dover, 27th October.
1987 Folkestone, 1st January.
  Minnis Bay, 18th September.
  Dungeness Peninsula, 9th October.
  Sandwich Bay, 10th October.
  North Foreland , 10th October.
  North Foreland , two south, 18th October.
  Foreness, three east, 2nd December.
1988 Dover Harbour, 7th December.
  Dungeness Peninsula, two west, 28th October.
1991 Sandwich Bay, one south, 9th January.
  Kingsnorth (Ashford), 19th October.
  Minnis Bay, one east, 20th November.
1993 Shellness, Isle of Sheppey, 29th October.
1995 Sandwich Bay, one south, 27th November.
1996 Dungeness Bird Observatory, four west, 9th July.
  Underriver (Sevenoaks), fell exhausted into farmyard, 10th December. Recovered and later released.
1997 Foreness, one east, 17th December.
1998 Dungeness Bird Observatory, one west, 12th July.
1999 Staplehurst, found dead, 2nd January.
  Reculver, one west, 19th November.
  Sandwich Bay, three birds ringed, dates to be confirmed.
2000 Greenhithe, one west, 30th October.
  Thames at Cliffe, ten west and two east, 30th October.
  Thames at Dartford, 30th October.
  Cliffe Pools, 30th October.
  Copt Point, 31st October.
  Dungeness Bird Observatory, two west, 31st October.
  Higham Bight, one east, 31st October.
  Stone Marshes, 31st October.
  Dungeness, two west, 2nd November.
  Dungeness, two, one accepted, the other accepted as Petrel sp., 5th November.
2002 Dungeness RSPB, exhausted bird picked up, 26th May.
2003 Reculver, one east, 14th October.
  Reculver, 15th October.
  Reculver, 23rd October.
2004 Cliffe, 11th October.
2005 Dungeness Bird Observatory, one west, 6th November, was seen to be taken by Merlin, Falco columbarius.
2006 Sandwich Bay, two birds, 22nd May.
  Sandwich Bay, single bird, 23rd May.
  Minnis Bay, 3rd August.