Tours
Details of what is included in a typical 7-day Wingspan tour based in Gaucin, Andalucia
- Airport transfers
- Seven night's accommodation with breakfast, evening meal and wine.
- Six full days of guided birding and some birding on arrival and departure days.
- My services as guide and all transportation.
- Picnic lunches and drinks on each day tour.
- A "tick-list" of seasonal birds most likely to be seen in the region.
What is not included?
- Air fares
- Personal holiday insurance.
- All items of a personal nature, i.e. Drinks and telephone calls.
Upcoming Tours
- THE GAMBIA
- SOMERSET LEVELS - WINTER SHORT BREAK - NEW YEAR - NEW LIST TOUR 1a
- DORSET - WINTER SHORT BREAK NEW YEAR - NEW LIST TOUR 1b
- SRI LANKA - 2024
- COSTA RICA 2024
- MOROCCO 2024
- EXTREMADURA - SHORT BREAK - BUSTARDS, EAGLES, SANDGROUSE AND ORCHIDS
- COTO DONANA & EXTREMADURA 2024
- THE GREEK ISLAND OF LESVOS -1
- THE GREEK ISLAND OF LESVOS - 2
- NORTHERN GREECE - LAKE KERKINI 2024
- EASTERN POLAND
- BULGARIA - THE ESSENTIAL TOUR
- Spain, Tarifa - Autumn Migration
One Day Tours
THE GAMBIA Tuesday, November 14, 2023 - Tuesday, November 28, 2023
Price: £2250 - Remaining Places: Last 2 Last Updated: Thursday, August 3, 2023
The Gambia is an exciting venue and an ideal country to begin your African Bird-watching. This tiny West African country offers some superb birding in a relatively small area, so travelling is kept to a minimum. Gambia offers you the opportunity to see over 300 species including some of the most colourful species you are ever likely to see........
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SOMERSET LEVELS - WINTER SHORT BREAK - NEW YEAR - NEW LIST TOUR 1a Tuesday, January 2, 2024 - Friday, January 5, 2024
Price: £520 single supplement £90 - Remaining Places: Last 2 Last Updated: Saturday, September 16, 2023
A winter wonderland where birds abound and miles of flat level marshland hold a multitude of species. Our guest house greets you with a glowing log fire and home cooked delicious meals after an exciting day in the field.
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DORSET - WINTER SHORT BREAK NEW YEAR - NEW LIST TOUR 1b Saturday, January 6, 2024 - Tuesday, January 9, 2024
Price: £520 single supplement £90 - Remaining Places: 4 Last Updated: Tuesday, August 15, 2023
A 4-day short break in the middle of winter based in the heart of Dorset in Weymouth. Prime venues included Portland, Portland Harbour, Ferrybridge and the Fleet, RSPB Radipole Lake and Lodmoor, Wareham Forest and the Arne Peninsular
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SRI LANKA - 2024 Wednesday, January 17, 2024 - Tuesday, January 30, 2024
Price: £2250 Single Supplement £370 - Remaining Places: Last 2 Last Updated: Tuesday, August 15, 2023
The 'Tear Drop' Of India is a magical island of beauty and diversity and holds some of the most beautiful birds on our planet. There are 34 endemic species to look for over a wide range of habitats, you will discover why wildlife enthusiasts return time and time again to this wonderful place. Join us and explore the rainforests, high plains, tea-plantation and lowland wetlands which are alive with hundreds of birds, mammals, reptiles, butterflies and plants. We hope to 240-260 species of birds, 20-25 mammals, 50+ butterflies and many reptiles.
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COSTA RICA 2024 Friday, February 23, 2024 - Saturday, March 9, 2024
Price: £2675 single supplement £375 - Remaining Places: Last 2 Last Updated: Saturday, September 16, 2023
Costa Rica a bird-watcher's dream location a global hot-spot for biodiversity, where 25% of the land mass is Protected for Wildlife and where the birdlife is prolific. There can't be many places in the world where you easily list 200 species of birds in the first few days of your trip and reach a total of over 450 species during our complete tour. Read our latest trip reports and you will fall in love with this idyllic bird-watching holiday venue.
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MOROCCO 2024 Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - Saturday, March 30, 2024
Price: £1250 single supplement £150 - Remaining Places: Last 2 Last Updated: Saturday, September 16, 2023
One extra night has been added to this tour making it a 12 day tour that has it all! The High Atlas Mountains, the stony plains and Erg Chebbi Sand Dune system of the Sahara Desert as well as the lush Sous Valley and Coastal National Parks. You will pass through some of the most scenic landscapes that you can imagine and see some wonderful bird species in the process
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EXTREMADURA - SHORT BREAK - BUSTARDS, EAGLES, SANDGROUSE AND ORCHIDS Friday, April 5, 2024 - Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Price: £850 single supplement £120 - Remaining Places: Last 2 Last Updated: Saturday, September 16, 2023
This 5 night break concentrates on an area well-known for supporting many pairs of our target species, Great and Little Bustards, Pin-tailed and Black-bellied Sandgrouse, Great Spotted Cuckoo, Spanish Imperial Eagle, Griffon, Egyptian and Black Vultures, Calandra lark, Eurasian Hoopoe, and many more. An added bonus is the possibility of see up to 15 species of Orchids!
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COTO DONANA & EXTREMADURA 2024 Thursday, April 11, 2024 - Thursday, April 20, 2023
Price: £1250.00 SINGLE SUPPLEMENT £170 - Remaining Places: 4 Last Updated: Saturday, September 16, 2023
This classic Spanish trip encompasses two of Spain's most valuable and treasured birding areas. The marshes of Donana form a complete contrast to the mountains and wide open grassy plains of Extremadura. The corresponding bird life is both prolific and terrific in both areas.
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THE GREEK ISLAND OF LESVOS -1 Sunday, April 21, 2024 - Sunday, April 28, 2024
Price: £1150 single supplement £150 - Remaining Places: None Last Updated: Tuesday, June 27, 2023
Lesvos is an amazing place it is a 'birders' dream island especially during Spring Peak Migration at the end of April and the beginning of May. This colourful Aegean gem produces stunning birds in an intricately woven web of habitats, you will be amazed by the sheer number of species packed into this tiny jewel. This is an ideal time to see the more colourful arrivals such as European Bee-eaters, European Rollers, Eurasian Hoopoes, European Golden Orioles and Rufous Bush Robins.
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THE GREEK ISLAND OF LESVOS - 2 Sunday, April 28, 2024 - Sunday, May 5, 2024
Price: £1150 single supplement £150 - Remaining Places: None Last Updated: Tuesday, June 27, 2023
Lesvos is an amazing place it is a 'birders' dream island especially during Spring Peak Migration at the end of April and the beginning of May. This colourful Aegean gem produces stunning birds in an intricately woven web of habitats, you will be amazed by the sheer number of species packed into this tiny jewel. This is an ideal time to see the more colourful arrivals such as European Bee-eaters, European Rollers, Eurasian Hoopoes, European Golden Orioles and Rufous Bush Robins.
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NORTHERN GREECE - LAKE KERKINI 2024 Monday, May 6, 2024 - Monday, May 13, 2024
Price: £1150.00 SINGLE SUPPLEMENT £150 - Remaining Places: 4 Last Updated: Saturday, September 16, 2023
The idyllic setting on the shores of Lake Kerkini is our base for this superb birding week. It is one of the most tranquil and aesthetically pleasing places I have ever been. The wildlife is prolific, the scenery outstanding and you will enjoy every minute of it
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EASTERN POLAND Monday, May 6, 2024 - Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Price: £1750 single supplement £150 - Remaining Places: 6 Last Updated: Saturday, September 16, 2023
A superb tour of Eastern Poland taking in the stunning Primeaval Forest of Bialowieza and the huge wetlands in the Biebrza basin. An exciting variety of mammals, birds, butterflies, dragonflies and wild flowers is on offer during this 8-night two-centre tour.
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BULGARIA - THE ESSENTIAL TOUR Wednesday, May 15, 2024 - Thursday, May 23, 2024
Price: £1150.00 SINGLE SUPPLEMENT £200 - Remaining Places: 6 Last Updated: Saturday, September 16, 2023
Join us as we explore some of the most beautiful, bird-rich landscapes in Europe, we take in the Rhodopes Mountains the Black Sea Coast and the Central Balkan Mountains, these three exciting regions form the backbone of the tour. We make many exciting stops along the way to view the wonderful and valuable habitats that Bulgaria has to offer
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Spain, Tarifa - Autumn Migration Sunday, September 1, 2024 - Sunday, September 8, 2024
Price: £1250 based on two people sharing a twin/double room - single supplement £175 - Remaining Places: 7 Last Updated: Saturday, September 16, 2023
This Tour includes a Pelagic into the Strait of Gibraltar and a visit to the Gibraltar Bird-Ringing Station (if open) and is based in a good quality hotel on the outskirts of Tarifa. This exciting tour gives you the opportunity to see migration at its very best. You are based beneath the centre of the busiest Migration Fly-way in the whole of Europe. Tens of thousands of migrating birds-of-prey drift over everyday during this peak migration period.
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