Highlights - July 2006 |
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| Common Sandpiper | July | 1st | At Doe Park |
| Swift | July | 1st | The hot and sultry weather brought interesting movements of birds with a wave of 1200 Swifts passing the moor-land watch-point |
| Little Ringed Plover | July | 7th | At Leeshaw |
| Osprey | July | 13th | Passed through the moor-land watch-point |
| Marsh Harrier | July | 15th | Over Fly Flatts |
| Greenshank | July | 18th | One at OGP |
| Mediterranean Gull | July | 18th | At Cullingworth Fields |
| Stonechat | July | 18th | Three pairs at Barden |
| Whinchat | July | 18th | A pair at Whetstone Gate and possibly up to two pairs at Barden, again in the area between the reservoirs |
| Grasshopper Warbler | July | 22nd | A ‘reeling’ Grasshopper Warbler was heard at on Soil Hill. |
| Common Sandpiper | July | 23rd | At Leeming |
| Little Ringed Plover | July | 23rd | Six at Leeming |
| Mediterranean Gull | July | 23rd | Seen at the moor-land watch-point from the 23rd |
| Green Sandpiper | July | 26th | One at Stockbridge |
| Lesser Spotted Woodpecker | July | Continued to be seen, with good sightings at Bull Copy Woods near Hirstwood and at Stockbridge, | |
| Stonechat | July | Three family groups at Sconce and Glovershaw | |
| Stonechat | July | A pair on Trough Lane | |
| Willow Warbler | July | A family groups at Sconce and Glovershaw | |
| Yellowhammer | July | Three singing males at Sconce and Glovershaw | |
| Yellow-legged Gull | July | At Cullingworth and the moorland watch-point | |