Rare passage migrant, and winter visitor.

Birds have been seen at Stevenage during the spring, autumn and, winter.

The spring records are: single birds at Watery Grove on 8 April 1975 and, 5 April 1981; a male singing and holding territory at Mossbury Wood, Chells from 26 to 31 March 1989; a probable sighting of one in the Meadway – Gunnels Wood Road area on 18 March 1997; a male, visiting a bird bath, in a garden for 10 days in March 2008; a male at Wiltshire Spring from 24 to 27 March 2019; a male at Shackleton Spring on 27 April 2019; one at Box Wood on 6 March 2020; one at Watery Grove on 18 and 19 March 2023; one at Hanging Hill Wood, Chells on 29 April 2023.

Four autumn records: one at Ashburnham Walk on 31 October 2009, a probable bird at Tilekiln Wood, Great Ashby on 29 November 2015, one at Chells Manor on 3 October 2018 and one at Sishes Wood on 18 September 2024.

The winter records are; a single bird at Astonbury Wood on 9 February 1986; a male at Pryors Wood from 28 January to 15 February 2010; one in a Livingstone Walk Garden on 16 December 2025; one at Box Wood on 31 December 2025 and 10 January 2026; two at Box Wood on 28 January 2026.