Whin Covert Plantation - Broadleaved woodland
11 ha
🐶Dogs🦉Wildlife🦅Birds
Public accessFree entryDogs welcome11 ha
Getting here
53.58063, -1.29697
Open directionsv
Visiting this summer
Seasonal nature notes and what to look for now
- 🌞Midsummer — early morning visits most comfortable; look for deer fawns in quieter clearings
- 🐕Early mornings are best for dog walks in summer — visit before 9am to avoid the heat and find quieter trails
- 🅿️Parking 140m away — 2 car parks within reach
🌤️ Visiting this summer
- 🌞Midsummer — early morning visits most comfortable; look for deer fawns in quieter clearings
- 🐕Early mornings are best for dog walks in summer — visit before 9am to avoid the heat and find quieter trails
- 🅿️Parking 140m away — 2 car parks within reach
- £Free to visit — no entry charge
- 🐕Dogs welcome
Dogs allowed — public woodland
Free
Deciduous woodland priority habitat
Free
🦅Bird watching
Strong match
Deciduous woodland — woodpeckers, warblers and woodland birds
Free
Deciduous woodland — fungi, berries and wild garlic
Varies
🍂Seasonal nature
Good match
Broadleaved woodland — spring blossom and autumn colour
Free
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km2 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Barnsley Boundary WalkWalking route▾
Named routeRegional walking route
Wakefield WayWalking route▾
Named routeRegional walking route
1 signed route nearby
Signed route nearby
West Yorkshire Cycle RouteCycling route▾
Named routeRef WYCRRegional cycle route
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Wildlife to spot
3,127 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
3,127 records · National Biodiversity NetworkBlackbird · Dunnock · Robin · Woodpigeon · Great Tit +36
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2024
- DunnockPrunella modularis2024
- RobinErithacus rubecula2024
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- Great TitParus major
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2024
- Reed BuntingEmberiza schoeniclus2024
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2024
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus2024
- SkylarkAlauda arvensis2024
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2024
- MagpiePica pica2024
- LinnetLinaria cannabina2024
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2023
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus2023
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2023
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2023
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
- WhitethroatCurruca communis2024
- CootFulica atra2024
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2024
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2024
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2024
- BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhula2023
- GreenfinchChloris chloris2023
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba2023
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus
- Grey PartridgePerdix perdix2024
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla2024
- Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilus2024
- Greylag GooseAnser anser2024
- GadwallMareca strepera2024
- Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorus2024
- Tawny OwlStrix aluco2024
- Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis2023
- SwallowHirundo rustica2023
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2023
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2023
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2023
- Mute SwanCygnus olor2023
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2022
Hedgehog
- HedgehogErinaceus europaeus
🐸Amphibians1 species
spring
2024▾
Common Frog
- Common FrogRana temporaria
Orange-tip · Common Darter · Migrant Hawker · Peacock · Mystacides longicornis +21
- Orange-tipAnthocharis cardamines2024
- Common DarterSympetrum striolatum
- Migrant HawkerAeshna mixta
- PeacockAglais io2024
- Mystacides longicornisMystacides longicornis2024
- Large WhitePieris brassicae2024
🌿Plants2 species
springautumn
2023▾
Japanese Knotweed · Glaucous Sedge
- Japanese KnotweedReynoutria japonica
- Glaucous SedgeCarex flacca
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
3,127 records · National Biodiversity NetworkBlackbird · Dunnock · Robin · Woodpigeon · Great Tit +36
- BlackbirdTurdus merula2024
- DunnockPrunella modularis2024
- RobinErithacus rubecula2024
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- Great TitParus major
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus2024
- Reed BuntingEmberiza schoeniclus2024
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2024
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus2024
- SkylarkAlauda arvensis2024
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis2024
- MagpiePica pica2024
- LinnetLinaria cannabina2024
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2023
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus2023
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto2023
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes2023
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
- WhitethroatCurruca communis2024
- CootFulica atra2024
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2024
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos2024
- ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita2024
- BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhula2023
- GreenfinchChloris chloris2023
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba2023
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus
- Grey PartridgePerdix perdix2024
- BlackcapSylvia atricapilla2024
- Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilus2024
- Greylag GooseAnser anser2024
- GadwallMareca strepera2024
- Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorus2024
- Tawny OwlStrix aluco2024
- Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis2023
- SwallowHirundo rustica2023
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2023
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2023
- StarlingSturnus vulgaris2023
- Mute SwanCygnus olor2023
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs2022
Hedgehog
- HedgehogErinaceus europaeus
🐸Amphibians1 species
spring
2024▾
Common Frog
- Common FrogRana temporaria
Orange-tip · Common Darter · Migrant Hawker · Peacock · Mystacides longicornis +21
- Orange-tipAnthocharis cardamines2024
- Common DarterSympetrum striolatum
- Migrant HawkerAeshna mixta
- PeacockAglais io2024
- Mystacides longicornisMystacides longicornis2024
- Large WhitePieris brassicae2024
🌿Plants2 species
springautumn
2023▾
Japanese Knotweed · Glaucous Sedge
- Japanese KnotweedReynoutria japonica
- Glaucous SedgeCarex flacca
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas