WOODCHAT SHRIKE (Lanius senator)

Rare Migrant

c.1835 Canterbury, immature male, killed, date uncertain.
1841 Sackett's Hill, nr. Broadstairs, shot, 6th May.
c.1851 Location and date unknown, single male. Now in Exeter Museum.
1857 Tonbridge, single bird, shot and wounded, 14th May.
1868 Murston, single bird shot, towards end of July.
1888 Folkestone Warren, date unknown. Now in Canterbury Museum.
1891 Nr. Sittingbourne, single bird, 24th February.
1907 Tonbridge Wells, single bird, 23rd May.
  Hadlow, adult male, shot, 4th July.
  Newchurch, Romney Marsh, single bird shot, no date.
1909 Romney Marsh, single bird showing characters of L.S. Badius, 29th June.
1918 Fairfield, Romney Marsh, shot, June. Now in Maidstone Museum.
1934

Longfield, nr. Gravesend, male of race L.s. weigoldi, 9th May. Now in national collection British Museum (Natural History)..

1937 Ash Levels, nr. Canterbury, male and female, 5th May.
1946 Isle of Grain, single bird, 12th May.
1947 New Romney, single bird, 5th June.
1948 Sandwich, adult, 5th July.
1953 Sandling/Boxley Abbey, summer plumage, 4th July.
  Dungeness, juvenile trapped, 23rd August.
1954 Sheerness, single bird, 24th June.
  Swalecliffe, possibly Sheerness bird, 26th August.
1955 Allhallows, juvenile, 4th-18th September.
1956 Dungeness, juvenile trapped 19th August, with another juvenile trapped 5th-8th September.
1959 Dungeness, juvenile trapped, 13th August.
1961 Dungeness, adult, 11th June.
1962 Sandwich Bay, first-winter, 14th-31st August.
1965 Dungeness, first-winter, 22nd August to 13th September, trapped, 28th August.
1968 Sandwich Bay, single bird, 6th October.
1969 Sandwich Bay, male, 28th May.
  Kingsdown, male, 16th June.
1971 Dungeness, single bird, 25th April.
  Littlebrook, nr. Dartford, single bird, 5th and 7th May.
1972 Dungeness area, single bird, 26th June.
1976 Dungeness, adult male, 28th May.
  Dungeness, immature, 8th September.
1977 Langley, first-year male, 28th June to 2nd July.
  Kingsdown, immature, 3rd September.
1978 Dungeness, single bird, 4th May.
  Minster-in-Thanet, immature, 8th October.
1979 Sandwich Bay, oimmature trapped, 7th-9th October.
1981 Dungeness Reserve, single bird, 7th-8th July.
1984 Kingsgate, Thanet, immature, 6th-16th October.
1986 Cliffe, single bird, 14th-16th May.
1987 Bretts Pits, Lydd, first-summer male, 26th April.
1991 Brockhill Park, Folkestone, first-summer male, 23rd May.
1993 Dungeness, adult male, 5th June.
  Dungeness, juvenile, 18th August.
1995 Dungeness, adult male trapped, 15th-21st July. Click for photo
1993 Dungeness, adult male, 5th June.
  Dungeness, first-summer male, 20th May.
  Church Hougham, female, 13th June.
1997 Reculver, single bird, 23rd-30th April. Click for photo
1998 Dungeness, first-summer male, 23rd June to 3rd July. Click for photo
1999 Lydd, adult male, 13th June.
2000 Dungeness, juvenile, 15th-16th August.
2004 Chambers Wall, Reculver, female, 19th-22nd April. Click for photo
  Minnis Bay, male, 5th June. Click for photo
2005 Cliffe, 4th-8th June. Click for photo
2007 Dungeness, female, 23rd May.
2009 Whitstable, single bird, 2nd May.
2010 Shuart, single bird, 1st May.
2011 Sandwich Bay, single bird, 17th May.
   
No longer accepted  
1968 Aycliffe, nr. Dover, male, 1st July.
  Herne Bay, single bird, 13th and 15th October.