Recent News - Barbrook and Big Moor
01 September 2010
Barbrook Plantation: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - calling27 August 2010
Barbrook Pools: Wheatear - 125 August 2010
Big Moor: Pheasant - 3+ - A female with 2+ young. ; Grey Partridge - 721 August 2010
Barbrook Pools: Sparrowhawk - 1 - female to S-W, mobbed by passerines ; Meadow Pipit - 40 - At least 40 around pools and adjacent moorland ; Linnet - 3 ; Sand Martin - 1 - S-W with small nos of swallows ; Willow Warbler - 1 - juv in hedgerow near cottage ; Reed Bunting - 3 - in hedgerow near cottage17 August 2010
Big Moor: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Flying north over moors.16 August 2010
Barbrook Pools: Marsh Harrier - 2 - 2 juvs present 1620 to 1700. departing eventually to NW.15 August 2010
Barbrook Pools: Green Sandpiper - 1 ; Teal - 1210 August 2010
Barbrook Pools: Wheatear - 1 - flew south24 July 2010
Big Moor: Linnet - 15 ; Sand Martin - 1 ; Whinchat - 4 - juvs ; Stonechat - 1 - male ; Willow Warbler - 1 - juvenile06 July 2010
Barbrook Plantation: Tawny Owl - 2 - in flight, 0745h ; Redstart - 2+ - family partyBarbrook Pools: Reed Bunting - 8 - Total of eight males singing in a 2km walk ; Merlin - 1 - Male chasing a meadow pipit
01 July 2010
Barbrook Pools: Teal - 1 adult - A female with 4 small young.23 June 2010
Barbrook Plantation: Redstart - 4 - Imale 2Female 1juv. ; Whinchat - 4 - 1male 2female 1juvenile ; Tree Pipit - 219 June 2010
Barbrook: Tree Pipit - 6 ; Stonechat - 4 - 1 male and three juveniles01 June 2010
Barbrook Plantation: Redstart - 4 - 3 females and 1 male all carrying food ; Spotted Flycatcher - 123 May 2010
Big Moor: Lesser Black-backed Gull - 58 - moving s-e @ 9.30 ; Cuckoo - 1 - A singing male being mobbed by meadow pipits.22 May 2010
Barbrook Plantation: Garden Warbler - 2 - singing malesBig Moor: Skylark - 1 - adult carrying food ; Whinchat - 1 - male ; Cuckoo - 1
18 May 2010
Barbrook Plantation: Spotted Flycatcher - 2 - 2, possibly 3 males singing ; Kestrel - 2 - a pair mobbing a buzzard17 May 2010
Barbrook Plantation: Woodcock - 2 - roding at 9 pm16 May 2010
Barbrook Pools: Ringed Plover - 114 May 2010
Barbrook Plantation: Redstart - 2+ - singing males ; Woodcock - 2 - singles ; Spotted Flycatcher - 2 - singing males11 May 2010
Barbrook Res: Whinchat - 1 - Male perched on fencing04 May 2010
Barbrook Res: Wheatear - 5 - 3 female, 2 male ; Lapwing - 1 ; Common Sandpiper - 2 ; Canada Goose - 6 - 3 pairsBig Moor: Red Grouse - 2 ; Curlew - 1 ; Skylark - 4 - singing overhead ; Kestrel - 2 - Both hovering at same time in north section
03 May 2010
Big Moor: Swift - c20 - Small numbers moving slowly north into hailstorm ; Whinchat - 1 - male;first this year ; Stonechat - 1 - Male; my first of year here. Species badly affected by previous winter. ; Wheatear - 2 - Male and female showing characteristics of Greenland Wheatear(subspecies leucorhoa)02 May 2010
Barbrook Pools: Swift - 6 - A single group of 6 flew through to NE.01 May 2010
Big Moor: Cuckoo - 1 - in flight along northern edge of moor, also 2 adders seen30 April 2010
Big Moor/Totley Moss: MONTAGU'S HARRIER - 1 - A male seen on two consecutive days reported this evening29 April 2010
Big Moor: Snipe - 2 ; Kestrel - 1 - Hovering28 April 2010
Barbrook Pools: Greylag Goose - 427 April 2010
Barbrook Pools: Tufted Duck - 2 - A pair. ; Dunlin - 226 April 2010
Barbrook Pools: Wheatear - 525 April 2010
Barbrook Pools: Whimbrel - 1 - Departed SW at 1125hrs.Big Moor: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - male observed near Barbrook Plantation.
22 April 2010
Barbrook Plantation: Woodcock - 1 - also discarded egg shell found nearby ; Tree Pipit - 1 ; Redstart - 2 - singing malesBarbrook Valley: Common Buzzard - 4 ; Cuckoo - 1
18 April 2010
Barbrook Pools: Reed Bunting - 2 ; Dunlin - 1 ; Cuckoo - 1 - heard ; Lapwing - 1 ; Meadow Pipit - 15+ ; Sand Martin - 1 - flew east ; Swallow - 6 ; Linnet - 2 - also present c30 red deer ; Teal - 2 - pair17 April 2010
Barbrook Plantation: Redstart - 3 - 2 singing males ; Tree Pipit - 1 ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Willow Warbler - 10 ; Chaffinch - 1216 April 2010
Barbrook Plantation: Tree Pipit - 1 - male song flighting ; Redstart - 1 - male singingBarbrook Pools: Redshank - 1 ; Snipe - 1 - singing
12 April 2010
Barbrook Plantation: Tree Pipit - 109 April 2010
Barbrook Pools: Canada Goose - 2 ; Yellow Wagtail - 1 - Landed briefly before flying on north. ; Reed Bunting - 1 ; Curlew - 403 April 2010
Barbrook Pools: Wheatear - 5 - 3 males, 2 females02 April 2010
Big Moor: Wheatear - 2 - Both males.27 March 2010
Big Moor: Golden Plover - 2 - flying n-e12 March 2010
Big Moor: Jackdaw - c250 - Feeding in fields 265743 ; Curlew - 3 - Feeding in fields 26574311 March 2010
Barbrook Pools: Reed Bunting - 2 - males singing ; Grey Partridge - 2 ; Skylark - 20 - 8 singing in the area and 2 parties of 5 and 7 NE07 March 2010
Big Moor: Buzzard - 1 ; Stonechat - 2 - male and female near stone circle06 March 2010
Big Moor: Reed Bunting - 1 - female flushed from wet grass area ; Buzzard - 3 - Soaring together low over ridge calling near stone circle12 February 2010
Barbrook Pools: Reed Bunting - 206 February 2010
Barbrook Pools: Meadow Pipit - 131 January 2010
Barbrook Plantation: Woodcock - 1 ; Goldcrest - 123 January 2010
Barbrook Plantation: Woodcock - 1Barbrook Pools: Teal - 2
01 January 2010
Big Moor: Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Peregrine - 1 - Hunting over snowy moors.28 December 2009
Barbrook Plantation: Siskin - c4014 December 2009
Barbrook Pools: Common Scoter - 1 - An immature. Also present on 16th.09 November 2009
Barbrook cottage: Brambling - 1Big Moor: Fieldfare - 100+ - Over, low ; Pink-footed Goose - 220 - A single skein heading west at 11.18 am
07 November 2009
Big Moor: Pink-footed Goose - c360 - c260 E-S-E @8.40, c100 E-S-E @9.0504 November 2009
Big Moor: Pink-footed Goose - 60 - Heading SE at 9.03 am ; Fieldfare - c 50 - feeding on rowans29 October 2009
Barbrook Res: Lapwing - 24 - on edge of pool18 October 2009
Big Moor: Crossbill - 3 - E over moorland ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Feeding in hawthorn. ; Long-tailed Tit - 11 - Landed in bracken briefly.16 October 2009
Barbrook Pools: Stonechat - 3 ; Starling - 208 - Total W 1015h to 1100hBig Moor: Golden Plover - 13 - flying west.
14 October 2009
Barbrook Pools: Fieldfare - 29 - West at 10.4511 October 2009
Barbrook Plantation: Crossbill - 2 ; Stock Dove - 1 - flying south10 October 2009
Barbrook Cottage: Goldcrest - 107 October 2009
Barbrook Bridge: Wheatear - 105 October 2009
Barbrook Pools: Meadow Pipit - 120+ ; Reed Bunting - 30+03 October 2009
Barbrook Plantation: Willow Tit - 1 ; Redwing - 1+ - calls heard only27 September 2009
Barbrook Plantation: Willow Tit - 2Big Moor: Grey Goose sp - c20 - flying n-w @9.30 am ; Ring Ouzel - 1
20 September 2009
Barbrook Valley: Stonechat - 8 - family of 5 nr plantation plus 3 ; Kestrel - 2 ; Skylark - 3 - nr B Pools ; Meadow Pipit - 40+14 September 2009
Barbrook Pools: Teal - 2013 September 2009
Big Moor: Wheatear - 1 ; Stonechat - 110 September 2009
Barbrook Pools: Teal - 609 September 2009
Barbrook Pools: Teal - 9Big Moor: Wheatear - 3 ; Whinchat - 2
07 September 2009
Barbrook Pools: Teal - 706 September 2009
Big Moor: Jay - 405 September 2009
Barbrook Pools: Goosander - 5 - All redheads dozing on the bank.