Been doing a BTO survey in this area today and had Marsh Harrier female south, 2 Buzzard, 2 Raven, 1 Cuckoo, a pair of Stonechat and 200+ Swifts south. No sign of any Whinchat and this used to be a good area for them in the olden days!
I went on to look for Golden Plover and Dunlin on the recording area western boundary and combined with another BTO survey area further west a couple of days ago and it looks like we have more than 26 breeding pairs of Golden Plover and at least 20 pairs of Dunlin in the Barnsley recording area Dave Pierce has been doing surveys on the Broomhead Estate so we need to get together to look over the maps and add his records in. Another area to survey in the next few days then see what total we have. I don't think we have done a detailed survey like this before but also in comparison with my Golden Plover/Dunlin surveys this year on RSPB Dove Stones numbers appear to be up this year.
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