Rare winter visitor.

Foster (1914) recorded that Jack Snipe had been reported from the Stevenage area.

Other records: birds seen at the Old Sewage Works, Roaring Meg on 24 and 31 December 1966 and, 4 March 1967; two flushed from, “Shephall Brook” on 2 January 1979; up to two at an unrecorded location on 1 and 27 January 1997; one at Norton Green Tip on 16 March 2005.