WHIMBREL (Numenius phaeopus)

Rare passage migrant

Seven records: 28 flying north over Fairlands Valley in the evening of 11 May 1970; four flying north east over Box Wood on 22 April 1990; five on waste ground of the former Kodak Factory site on 2 May 2004; one flying low south, south west and calling at St Nicholas Park in the evening of 21 August 2006; one at Norton Green Tip on 6 May 2007; 20 flying south on 2 August 2008; one at Fairlands Valley Lakes on 11 April 2021.