Occasional passage migrant, mainly in spring and, rare winter visitor.

Passage birds have been seen at Fairlands Valley Lakes: autumn of 1974, 3 May 1978, 29 May 1975, 18 August 1975 (when two were seen), 3, 7 and 9 May 1980 and 22 April 2024. There is also a winter record from 19 January 1996.

Other records are; of single birds at unrecorded locations on 1 September 1979 and 5 April 1982, and three at Norton Green Tip on 11 March 1989.