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🦉Wildlife✦Heritage🦅Birds
Dogs welcome
Getting here
53.82385, -1.61025
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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
- ✦Historic character is a year-round quality here — summer brings its own atmosphere to the setting
- 🛝Playground 149m away — built-in entertainment for younger visitors alongside the wider site
🌤️ Visiting this summer
- 🌞Midsummer — early morning visits most comfortable; look for deer fawns in quieter clearings
- ✦Historic character is a year-round quality here — summer brings its own atmosphere to the setting
- 🛝Playground 149m away — built-in entertainment for younger visitors alongside the wider site
🚲Bike parking🅿️Parking· Free🛝Playground
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
Trails nearby
Within roughly 5 km5 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Trans-Pennine Trail (Wombwell to Leeds)Walking route▾
Trans-Pennine Trail (Wombwell to Leeds spur)
Named routeRegional walking route
Calverley Millenium WayWalking route▾
Boundary walk around Calverley
Named routeLocal walking route
Leeds Country WayWalking route▾
Named routeLocal walking route
Airedale WayWalking route▾
Named routeRegional walking route
Dales Way LinkWalking route▾
Named routeRegional walking route
89 signed routes nearby
Signed route nearby
Route 66Cycling route▾
Named routeRef 66National Cycle Network
Garforth to Leeds City Centre Core Cycle RouteCycling route▾
Named routeRef G-CCLocal cycle route
Middleton to Leeds City Centre Core Cycle RouteCycling route▾
Named routeRef M-CCLocal cycle route
Alwoodley to Leeds City Centre Core Cycle RouteCycling route▾
Named routeRef A-CCLocal cycle route
West Park to Leeds City Centre Core Cycle RouteCycling route▾
Named routeRef W-CCLocal cycle route
Cycle Superhighway 1Cycling route▾
Named routeRef CS1Regional cycle route
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Wildlife to spot
30,830 records · National Biodiversity Network
Wildlife to spot
30,830 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds41 species
autumnwinter
2026▾
Blue Tit · Woodpigeon · Great Tit · Blackbird · Robin +36
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- Great TitParus major
- BlackbirdTurdus merula
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- PeregrineFalco peregrinus2025
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhula
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- MagpiePica pica2025
- NuthatchSitta europaea2025
- JackdawColoeus monedula
- Rock DoveColumba livia2025
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2025
- DunnockPrunella modularis
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2025
- GoosanderMergus merganser2025
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2025
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus2025
- Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorus2025
- TreecreeperCerthia familiaris2025
- Mute SwanCygnus olor2025
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta2025
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2025
- Coal TitPeriparus ater2025
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea2025
- Stock DoveColumba oenas2025
- SiskinSpinus spinus2025
- JayGarrulus glandarius2025
- Whooper SwanCygnus cygnus2025
- RedwingTurdus iliacus2025
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2025
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba2025
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus2025
- Tawny OwlStrix aluco2025
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2025
- DipperCinclus cinclus2025
🦌Mammals2 species
winterautumn
2026▾
American Mink · Grey Squirrel
- American MinkNeovison vison
- Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis
🐝Insects14 species
springautumn
2026▾
2-spot Ladybird · Harlequin Ladybird · Varied Carpet Beetle · Cuckoo-Spit Insect · Eristalis tenax +9
- 2-spot LadybirdAdalia bipunctata
- Harlequin LadybirdHarmonia axyridis2025
- Varied Carpet BeetleAnthrenus verbasci
- Cuckoo-Spit InsectPhilaenus spumarius2025
- Eristalis tenaxEristalis tenax2025
- Early Bumblebee
Springy Turf-moss
- Springy Turf-mossRhytidiadelphus squarrosus
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Wildlife to spot
30,830 records · National Biodiversity Network🐦Birds41 species
autumnwinter
2026▾
Blue Tit · Woodpigeon · Great Tit · Blackbird · Robin +36
- Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- WoodpigeonColumba palumbus
- Great TitParus major
- BlackbirdTurdus merula
- RobinErithacus rubecula
- PeregrineFalco peregrinus2025
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone2025
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhula
- WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- MagpiePica pica2025
- NuthatchSitta europaea2025
- JackdawColoeus monedula
- Rock DoveColumba livia2025
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus2025
- DunnockPrunella modularis
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus2025
- GoosanderMergus merganser2025
- ChaffinchFringilla coelebs
- Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto
- GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis
- Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2025
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus2025
- Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorus2025
- TreecreeperCerthia familiaris2025
- Mute SwanCygnus olor2025
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta2025
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major2025
- Coal TitPeriparus ater2025
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea2025
- Stock DoveColumba oenas2025
- SiskinSpinus spinus2025
- JayGarrulus glandarius2025
- Whooper SwanCygnus cygnus2025
- RedwingTurdus iliacus2025
- MoorhenGallinula chloropus2025
- Pied WagtailMotacilla alba2025
- KestrelFalco tinnunculus2025
- Tawny OwlStrix aluco2025
- House SparrowPasser domesticus2025
- DipperCinclus cinclus2025
🦌Mammals2 species
winterautumn
2026▾
American Mink · Grey Squirrel
- American MinkNeovison vison
- Grey SquirrelSciurus carolinensis
🐝Insects14 species
springautumn
2026▾
2-spot Ladybird · Harlequin Ladybird · Varied Carpet Beetle · Cuckoo-Spit Insect · Eristalis tenax +9
- 2-spot LadybirdAdalia bipunctata
- Harlequin LadybirdHarmonia axyridis2025
- Varied Carpet BeetleAnthrenus verbasci
- Cuckoo-Spit InsectPhilaenus spumarius2025
- Eristalis tenaxEristalis tenax2025
- Early Bumblebee
Springy Turf-moss
- Springy Turf-mossRhytidiadelphus squarrosus
Species observations from the last 10 years via NBN Atlas
Bombus pratorum
Bombus pratorum
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