Highlights - May 2006 |
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| Bar-tailed Godwit | May | 1st | Eight Bar-tailed Godwits visited Otley Wetland, and later that day, possibly the same group were seen in the Bolton Abbey area. |
| Bar-tailed Godwit | May | 2nd | Two more Bar-tailed Godwits were at the reserve on the following day and on the 7th a summer plumaged bird was seen. |
| Wood Warbler | May | 2nd | Two Wood Warblers could be heard in Shipley Glen |
| Yellowhammer | May | 2nd | A Yellowhammer had established territory by Crook Farm, Baildon |
| Twite | May | 3rd | Fly Flats where 20 were noted |
| Twite | May | 3rd | Leeshaw where a single bird was seen |
| Marsh Harrier | May | 4th | Timble Ings |
| Redstart | May | 4th | Redstarts had returned to John o’ Gaunts |
| Lesser Spotted Woodpecker | May | 5th | Middleton Woods |
| Whitethroat | May | 5th | At Gallows Hill |
| Shoveler | May | 6th | Birders at Stockbridge saw a pair of Shovelers |
| Dunlin | May | 7th | Two Dunlins were reported displaying at Otley Wetland |
| Yellow Wagtail | May | 7th | Knotford Nook supplied us with the first recorded Yellow Wagtai |
| Garganey | May | 8th | A male Garganey flew over Otley Wetland |
| Shelduck | May | 8th | A bird flew over Otley Wetland |
| Turnstone | May | 8th | A bird flew over Otley Wetland |
| Ruff | May | 12th | A bird present at Otley Wetland |
| Osprey | May | 16th | From the Watch-point at Barden, an Osprey was seen passing northwards |
| Sanderling | May | 20th | Two birds at Otley Wetland |
| Osprey | May | 28th | One passed Timble |
| Spotted Flycatcher | May | 30th | Up to six Spotted Flycatchers were established in St. Ives by the end of the month |
| Common Tern | May | Two were at Otley Wetland | |
| Lesser Whitethroat | May | At Toad Holes Beck a Lesser Whitethroat was in full song | |
| Little Ringed Plover | May | at Otley Wetland | |
| Stonechat | May | Reported from Glovershaw, Lower Barden and Whetstone Gate | |
| Tawny Owl | May | ‘mobbed ‘ by Magpies and Jays in broad daylight, in a Bingley Garden | |
| Tree Pipit | May | Tree Pipits were reported from Timble , John o’ Gaunts and St. Ives. | |
| Wheatear | May | By the 8th May Wheatear numbers, as reported to the website, had risen to 308 birds many seen at Trough Lane, Glovershaw and on Bingley Moor. 26 Wheatears were seen in one day at Trough Lane (3rd) | |