SURF SCOTER (Melanitta perspicillata)

Passage vagrant

1880 Two birds seen at the mouth of the Thames in one of the winters between 1875 and 1880.
1889 Admiralty Pier, Dover, adult male killed, 1st January.
1914 Lydd, 14th January.
1926 Dungeness, 23rd April.
1984 The Brooks, Lydd, male seen with flock of Common Scoter, m. nigra, 14th April.
1988 Minis Bay, adult male, flying west with mixed flock of duck, 20th October.
1999 Dungeness, immature male, 20th April.
2000 Dungeness, immature male on the patch, 24th May.
  North Foreland, first winter, 21st October.
  Dungeness, first winter, 13th December