Frequent visitor in small numbers.

Frequent visitors to Fairlands Valley Lakes, with records from every month of the year. They were first recorded on 21 December 1972 when three were seen. The most seen together are seven on 9 March 2023. A long staying pair were seen there in May and June 2009, and again briefly in July, but made no attempts to nest.

The earliest record for Stevenage comes from a photograph in Stevenage Museum (PP2176), showing nine Tufted Ducks on the newly completed Town Centre Gardens Pond dated c. 1960.

A single drake was seen on several occasions at the Town Centre Gardens in 1981.