Occasional winter visitor and passage migrant, with six summer records.

Occasional visitors to Fairlands Valley Lakes mainly between September and May, from where they were first recorded on 20 March 1975 when three were seen. A pair was also seen there on 21 May 1977.

Only one record from the 1980s, one on 13 March 1983.

Four records in the 1990s, six records between 2000 and 2009 and five records between 2010 and 2019.

Since 2020 there have been 19 records.

The summer records: a drake on 13 June 2008; one on 11 July 2017; one on 24 August 2021; four on 30 August 2021; one on 18 August 2022; two on 27 August 2022.

The most seen together are eight (one drake and seven ducks) on the Millennium Lake on 20 November 2004.

The latest record is of one on 1 April 2024.