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The Birds of Sussex
  - Species Records and the Sussex List

Ferruginous Duck


1903 Three shot at Langney Point (ES) on 15 August.   WB dFH
1908 Three seen at Warnham Mill Pond (WS) on 20 March (Walpole-Bond III p25-6). WB dFH [not very convincing]  
1926 One seen at Amberley Wildbrooks (WS) on 24 March was described as 'not too friendly' (Walpole-Bond III p27). WB dFH [not very convincing]  
1946 Two present between Rye Harbour and the Midrips (ES) from 17 November to 22 February 1947 when one was shot (Cawkell, E.M. 1947. Ferruginous Duck in Sussex. British Birds 40:219.).   * dFH
1976 A male photographed at Chichester Gravel Pits (WS) in March (British Birds 70: plate 29).   *94
1977 A male at Weir Wood Reservoir (E/WS) from 6 February to 6 March and 29 October to 21 January 1978.   *
A male between Rye and Winchelsea (ES) on 11 September was presumably that at Pett Pools (ES) on 12 December and Rye Harbour (ES) to the end of the year.   *
1978 A male, presumably the Rye individual, at Shorndene Reservoir, Hastings (ES) from 6 to 21 January, Castle Water, Rye Harbour (ES) on 12 February and at Pett Pools (ES) between 26 January and 22 February (British Birds 71: plate 205).   *
A male at Ardingly Reservoir (ES) between 4 February and 10 March was presumably that from Weir Wood Reservoir.   *
1979 A male at Arundel WWT (WS) from 14 January to 4 March and again from 15 September to mid February 1980.   *
A female at the Crumbles Gravel Pits (ES) on 2 December and 6 January 1980.   *
1980 A female at Arlington Reservoir (ES) on 12 and 13 January (presumably the Crumbles individual).   *
A female on the Long Pit at Rye Harbour (ES) on 26 January (possibly the Crumbles individual).   *
A female at the Crumbles Gravel Pits (ES) on 12 October (possibly the same again).   *
1981 An immature male at Scotney Court Gravel Pit (ES) between 6 March and 17 May (rather a late departure).   *
A male at Weir Wood Reservoir (E/WS) on 9 November.   *(from 16 October)
1985 A female at Weir Wood Reservoir (E/WS) from 3 to 13 February.   *
1987 A male at Ivy Lake, Chichester (WS) on 10 and 13 January.   *
A male, probably in its first summer, at the Crumbles Gravel Pits (ES) from 16 September to 3 October.   *
1991 A juvenile male at Weir Wood Reservoir (E/WS) on 2 and 3 December.   *(2nd only)
1993 A male at Camber Gravel Pit (ES) from 3 to 5 January.   *
2000 A first-winter male present at Rye Harbour (ES) from 26 November into 2001. It was present on Narrow Pit New although when that pit froze towards the end of December it moved onto the mostly unfrozen Long Pit.  


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