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Islay Birdwatching Tour 23rd February – 2nd March 2023
Participants:- Chris Brock, Caroline Cattermole, Sally Leach, Jane Kenney, Rob Lewis, Luke & Nick Marriner. Tour Guide for Norfolk Birding – Chris Mills This was a 6 day winter tour to Islay, off the west coast of Scotland in Argyll. The tour offered a great opportunity to see iconic species such as Golden and White-tailed eagles, vast flocks…
Read MoreNorfolk 3 Day Winter Birding Tour 15-17th February 2023
Day One 15th February North Norfolk We started the day with a walk out at Blakeney harbour and were greeted by a nice flock of Dark-bellied Brent Geese, also on the walk out plenty of Wigeon, Teal, 2-3 Marsh Harriers quartered the marsh. Out by the pools where the Twite have becoming to drink, our…
Read MoreNorfolk Birdwatching 3 Day Winter Tour – January 27-29th 2023
Day One – Hempstead area, Swanton Novers, Holkham NNR and Warham Greens. We started the tour rather unusually by heading for farmland and woodland, as it suited the better weather conditions forecast for today. There was a really nice field close to Holt, with dedicated bird crop and here there was 2-300 birds. The majority…
Read MoreNorfolk 5 day Winter Birding Tour 16-20th January
Day One – 16th January – The Broads We kicked the tour off in tricky weather conditions, cold grey skies with intermittent showers, wintry by the days end. However, the birding was good and we didn’t let it dampen our spirits. We kicked off near Horning with a nice group of “wild” Swans, 20 Whoopers…
Read MoreNORTHERN INDIA BIRDING TOUR REPORT
A Wildlife & Birding Tour of Northern India December 1st-15th 2022 Participants:- Julia Burton, Judith Cavey, Pete Dolton, John & Dolores Fletcher, Amanda Myers & Andrew Stirrat. Tour guides:– Chris Mills, Sumantha Ghosh, Brijendra Singh & Jaypee NORTH INDIA TOUR 1st-15st December 2022. The tour took in four areas each with its own character brought…
Read MoreOctober 21st-23rd 3 day Ladies Tour
A 3 day Exclusive Ladies Group Tour Day One October 21st – Cley & Salthouse areas We started the tour on the East Bank at Cley, where the Long-billed Dowitcher was still present, showing very well, we had a great scope views! There’s some nice video of the Dowitcher here with a whole load of…
Read MoreOctober 14th-18th 2022 Norfolk Birding Autumn Birding Tour
A 5 day Group Tour – Guide for Norfolk Birding Chris Mills Participants for the 5 days – Richard & Lesley Powell, Adrian Bradley, Adrian Roach, Bob Turner & Peter Follett. Thanks to Adrian Bradley and Adrian Roach for providing images. Day One 14th October – Snettisham, Holme Dunes NNR & Choseley We started the…
Read MoreSeptember 28th – Norfolk High Tide Group Day Tour
A wonderful high tide tour with fantastic light, gave us a round 40-50,000 Red Knot, 3-4000 Bar-tailed Godwit, 2000 Oystercatcher both seen in their masses, then flying overhead! Plus a plethora of commoner waders, including Redshank, Curlew, Dunlin, Sanderling, Grey Plover, Turnstone & Black-tailed Godwit. A Juv Peregrine added to the drama when it chased…
Read MoreSeptember 27th – Exclusive Birding Day in South Norfolk
Today we guided an American lady visiting the UK, she was also joining the High Tide tour tomorrow, so she asked we concentrated on woodland and passerine species today. Whilst we headed for the reliable and interesting farmland and woodland habitat of The Brecklands, we did stop off of the impressive post breeding gathering of…
Read MoreSeptember 21st-23rd 2022 Autumn Norfolk 3 day birding group tour
Tour with an emphasis on waders & shorebirds – thanks to Peter Hassett who joined the tour and took some great images! His website can be found at www.rightclick.photography Day One – 21st September 2022 I collected the group and we immediately headed towards Salthouse area, where the pools along the Iron road had been…
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