Occasional passage migrant. 

Since the 1980s records of Oystercatchers in Hertfordshire have increased and in 2008, they bred in the county for the first time. Nationally there has been a 28% increase due partly to birds breeding inland.

Single birds recorded from Fairlands Valley Lakes on, 22 August 1977, 12 April 1979, 17 March 1987, 29 May 2003, 4 March 2013, 27 March 2016, 19 June 2017, 27 February 2020, 18 March 2021, 17 June 2023, 8 July 2023 and 24 April 2024.

Other records for Stevenage are, one flying low and, calling over Mildmay Road on 21 January 2013 and one flying and calling at night over Derby Way on 30 July 2023.

Fairlands Valley Lakes 18 March 2021