A classic birding tour which never fails to produce superb birding tour which never fails to produce superb birding.
A classic birding tour which never fails to produce superb birding.
A relaxing pint and a recap of the days events rounded a fantastic days birding.
All of the blocks face good birding areas but we were particularly happy with N block which was reasonably central.
Although forest birding is never easy, the rewards are great.
At Kingfisher Park the birding was just phenomenal from the start.
Birding today was tough with a lot of species either skulking in dense vegetation or high up in the canopy.
English Nature is calling on the skills of the birding world to try and find the endangered mole cricket.
For example, rather than visiting a local zoo or sheltered aviary, an adventure travel cruise may involve passengers taking an extended hike to go birding for local species while guided by an experienced naturalist.
From a birding point of view, I appeared to be the only serious birder at the hotel.
Generally a day of relaxed birding with nothing new to report.
However the weather did not dampen our spirits, stop us birding or keep the birds away.
However, birding was severely hampered by hoards of huge Horse Flies.
In fact my raptor count for the day would come to include sixteen kestrels in just 5 hours of birding!
Just before the bus arrived to pick us up, we saw seven more Common Waxbills to complete another good day 's birding.
Just before the bus arrived to pick us up, we saw seven more Common waxbills to complete another good day's birding.
Later we'll drive down into the Imperial Valley for some afternoon birding at the south end of the Salton Sea.
No fewer than eight birds of Paradise were seen making this a day which figured high among everyone's best birds of Paradise were seen making this a day which figured high among everyone's best birding day ever.
One of the richest areas in the country for birding, the great green macaw is one of the highlights.
Our last day in Galveston was spent birding the general area around town.
Our main interest was to see sandgrouse but we enjoyed the general birding as we waited for dusk to fall.
Overnight San Ignacio Day 9 After an early morning's birding at our hotel, we travel to the Mayan site of Xunantunich.
Quite a fine end to an excellent days birding.
Summary A great introduction to North American birding at a (fairly) relaxed pace.
The Eastern Curlew was the 200 th bird of the trip, not bad for 8 days birding at a fairly leisurely pace.
The junction of the last two provided us with the opportunity of birding riverine habitats next to an old dam complex.
The route takes us through savanna habitat and numerous Rift Valley Lakes with great birding.
Unfortunately, the weather was perfectly wrong for birding in an elfin cloud forest - it was sunny and very windy.
We first visited the fish hatchery where the facilities were excellent with good birding right next to the river.
We spent the rest of the morning birding along the track to the river.
We therefore planned the trip as a general interest tour, based mainly on the scenic highlights, with birding stops on the way.
We were able to do a bit of birding before the meal and saw some more excellent hummers plus a Lincoln's Sparrow.
We will spend all day birding from our camp at 2800 meters to our next stop at 1600 meters.