Highlights - January 2006 |
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| Woodcock | January | 1st | Three Woodcocks were counted at Timble (1st and 28th) |
| Greater Black-backed Gull | January | 2nd | A Greater Black-backed Gull was on the wet area below Dick Hudson’s |
| Ring-necked Parakeet | January | 2nd | a Ring-necked Parakeet in Shipley |
| Gadwall | January | 4th | pair at Knotford |
| Scaup | January | 4th | The female Scaup, first seen during December at Otley Wetland had moved onto Knotford |
| Pink-footed Goose | January | 12th | 230 Pink-footed Geese, in three groups, passed over Barden |
| Redwing | January | 14th | 80 Redwing were noted in the fields around Shipley Glen. |
| Snow Bunting | January | 14th | The largest number of visiting Snow Buntings was seen on Soil Hill (14th) where eight were recorded. |
| Lapwing | January | 16th | Approximately 400 to 500 Lapwings were noted at Bowling Back Lane near Wakefield Road, Bradford on the 16th, |
| Lesser Spotted Woodpecker | January | 18th | The elusive Lesser Spotted Woodpecker was watched at Bolton Bridge, where a member was lucky to see two birds |
| Pink-footed Goose | January | 18th | 80 passed over Knotford |
| Pink-footed Goose | January | 19th | 60 were seen flying west over Oxenhope |
| Bar-tailed Godwit | January | 22nd | Bar-tailed Godwit was negotiating the fog at Otley Wetland |
| Black-headed Gull | January | 22nd | 1500 at the moorland watch-point |
| Buzzard | January | 22nd | Seven buzzards were registered on the 22nd from the Barden watchpoint. |
| Common Gull | January | 22nd | 1500 at the moorland watch-point |
| Pink-footed Goose | January | 22nd | 450 passed over Wilsden in three skeins. |
| Water Pipit | January | 22nd | One at Marley Sewage Works |
| Peregrine Falcon | January | 24th | which flying over the Keighley by-pass |
| Curlew | January | 29th | Curlew numbers at Denton were beginning to grow with 50 there on the 29th. |
| Blackcap | January | A female Blackcap was regularly appearing in a garden at Crossflatts, feeding on the rotting apples left for it. | |
| Crossbills | January | Crossbills were present in small numbers within Timble Forest and at the north end of Fewston Reservoir. | |
| Water Rail | January | Two Water Rails were regularly seen and even photographed at Stockbridge | |
| Waxwing | January | Small flocks of Waxwings were seen along the by-pass at Burley-in-Wharfedale, where they stayed for most of the month. An Eldwick garden had 18 gorging on a decorative shrub (12th&13th) and Salts Mill a member saw a flock of 40 (11th). | |