Grey Wagtail   Motacilla cinerea

Scarce passage migrant and very rare breeding bird

 

·       1959   3, 9th August, One remaining until the 11th (Pennington et al., 2004).

·       1961   One, 27th – 31st August (Pennington et al., 2004).

·       1962   One, 8th – 13th August (Pennington et al., 2004).

·       1963   One, 30th July (Pennington et al., 2004).

·       1967   One, 3rd – 4th June (Pennington et al., 2004).

·       1968   One, 3rd June (Pennington et al., 2004).

·       1987   One, 8th and 10th June.

·       1995   One, 17th September.

·       2000   One, Ham burn, 3rd – 6th October.

·       2003   One, 29th – 31st March. Another or the same, on the 9th April. Two, 22nd – 24th May, with one remaining until the 29th. In the autumn, singles, 28th – 30th September, 14th October, and 23rd – 24th October.

·       2004   One on the 1st – 2nd April, and another on the 7th June. In the autumn, an individual trapped on the 9th August was in full wing moult when it was trapped on the 4th September, and was probably the same individual present through to the 24th October.

·       2005   One 29th – 30th April and in the autumn on the 5th and 21st of October.