| dFH: about eleven records to 1961 all spring to autumn where dated (all below?). | |
| 1851 | One shot with a walking-stick gun in the garden of Dr Smith's seminary at Rottingdean (ES). | WB |
| 1855 | A pair procured at Brighton (ES) in or most probably before November. | WB |
| 1860 | One obtained near Arundel (WS). | WB |
| 1862 | One near Seaford (WS) on 22 or 23 August. WB but discounted] | |
| 1865 | One near Ratham (WS) in September. WB but discounted] | |
| 1873 | An adult male shot at Brighton Racecourse (ES) on 20 May (BoMNH 207240). | WB |
| 1884 | One killed at Fairlight (ES) on 11 October. | WB |
| 1894 | One killed near Arundel (WS) on 4 July. | WB |
| 1896 | [One obtained at Fairlight, near Hastings (ES).] | WB HR |
| 1899 | [An immature male shot at Hooe (ES) on 15 April.] | WB HR |
| 1900 | One secured in Sussex during first week of May. | WB |
| 1901 | [One shot near Pett (ES) on 3 June.] | WB HR |
| [One killed near Rye (ES) at 'about the same year'.] | WB HR |
| 1903 | [Two obtained at Hooe (ES) on 12 September.] | WB HR |
| [One secured at St. Leonards (ES) circa 1903.] | WB HR |
| 1915 | [An adult male killed near Robertsbridge (ES) 'some years since'.] | WB HR |
| 1920 | [One obtained at Crowhurst (ES) on 17 May.] | WB HR |
| 1924 | [A female obtained at Wadhurst (ES) on 2 September.] | WB HR |
| 1952 | [A male on 11 April reported in HESN (either ES or Kent).] | British Birds 47:280 |
| 1956 | An adult male shot and wounded at Thorney Aerodrome (WS) on 31 May was taken into care (and seen wounded on 5 June) but subsequently died. | * |
| 1958 | An adult male near Seaford (ES) on 4 May. | * × |
| 1961 | A male, probably in its second-summer, west over Whitbread Hollow, Beachy Head (ES) on 20 May. | * × dFH |
| 1968 | A juvenile at Sidlesham (WS) during evening of 8 September. | * × |
| 1973 | A second-summer male east over Whitbread Hollow, Beachy Head (ES) on 10 May. | * × |
| A male west at Belle Tout, Beachy Head (ES) on 1 June. | * × |
| A female at Lock Farm, Iden (ES) on 13 June. | * × |
| 1979 | An immature female at Cissbury Ring (WS) from 25 May to 1 June. | * × |
| [A male at Church Norton (WS) on 11 August has been rejected following a review.] | */*90 ×89 |
| 1987 | A female at Bullock Hill, Woodingdean (ES) on 3 July. | * × |
| 1989 | A female at Newmarket Hill, Woodingdean (ES) from 29 May to 4 June. | * (to 3rd) ×/×98 |
| A first-summer male at Newmarket Hill, Woodingdean (ES) from 30 May to 1 June. Despite the period of overlap these two were rarely seen together. | * × |
| A first-summer female at Hooe Level, Pevensey (ES) on 1 June. | * × |
| 1990 | A female at Balsdean (ES) on 20 May. | * × |
| 1992 | A female at Pett Level (ES) on 5 June arrived from west and alighted on a post for a few minutes before departing to east. | * × |
| Two first-summer males and a female at Powdermill Reservoir (ES) on 9 June, one first-summer male remaining to14 June. | * ×/×96 |
| 1993 | An adult male east at Belle Tout, Beachy Head (ES) on 22 May. | ‡ |
| 1994 | A female at Pett Level (ES) from 30 May to 12 June. | * × |
| 1995 | An adult female at Rye Harbour (ES) on 8 May. | *96 ×96 |
| An adult male was seen in the lower Cuckmere Valley (ES) during 15.00-15.20 hrs on 10 May and again from 16.45-17.15 on 11 May. | * × |
| An adult female just north of Rye Harbour village (ES) on 10 June landed in the top of a willow tree by the road at 10.55 hrs and was watched for 10 minutes. | * × |
| 1999 | An adult male just north of Exceat Bridge in the Cuckmere (ES) from 15 to 19 May (Birding World 12:174). | * × |
| A first-summer male first seen at Lidham Hill (ES) on 5 June was refound at nearby Guestling Thorn (ES) from 6 to 10 June. | * × |
| 2000 | A female at Combe Haven (ES) on 10 May. | * × |