Wryneck   Jynx torquilla

Scarce passage migrant

 

·         1898   One, 30th April (Evans and Buckley, cited in Pennington et al., 2004).

·         1954   One, 10th May (Jackson, 1966).

·         1970   Eight birds between the 7th and 10th May.

·         1973   One, 24th May.

·         1987   One, 15th August.

·         1992   Two, 5th September.

·         1996   One, 19th May.

·         1997   One on the 12th May. In autumn singles were present on the 28th and 30th August, with Two, on the 29th (these records may have involved 3 birds, for 3 were found dead in September)

·         1998   One, 5th – 6th May.

·         1999   One, on the 20th and 22nd September.

·         2000   One, Ham valley garden, 22nd September.

·         2002   One, 13th September.

·         2004   Singles on the 5th – 9th and 13th – 17th May. In the autumn, there were singles on the 9th August and 14th September.

·         2005   Just one bird on the 27th April.

·         2006   Singles on the 13th and 23rd September.