Very rare winter visitor.

Four records: two were recorded by the Stevenage Woodland Conservation Society as being at the Town Centre in February 1970, 30 recorded by the Stevenage and District Ornithological Society flying over Whomerley Wood on 6 March 1970, an adult and two first winter birds flying southwest over Astonbury Wood on 16 January 1991 and a juvenile at Fairlands Valley Lakes on 4 November 2022 (this bird was seen later the same day at Amwell and then at Rye Meads on 5 November where it remained until it died on 26 November).