Occasional winter visitor and passage migrant.

Occasional visitors to Fairlands Valley Lakes between September and March, the first record was a drake seen between 19 and 25 March 1976. They were not recorded again until 26 February 1980 when a drake and three females were seen. There were two further records in the 1980s.

During the 1990s there were eight records. Between 2000 and 2009 six records and, between 2010 and 2019 nine records.

Since 2020 there have been 11 records: four 17 September 2020; two 17 September 2021; female 13 October 2021; drake and female 17 December 2021; two 15 October 2022; three 20 October 2022; one 1 November 2022; drake and female 1 December 2022; three 2 December 2022; drake 6 September 2023; female 22 September 2023.

The most seen together are, eight (five drakes, three females) on 17 January 2013.

Away from Fairlands Valley Lakes a drake was seen at the Town Centre Gardens during February 1987.