AUTUMN MIGRATION in THE HIGHLANDS

SAT 2 SEPTEMBER – SAT 9 SEPTEMBER 2023

SAT 31 AUGUST – SATURDAY 7 SEPTEMBER 2024

PRICES: from £1595pp

Early Birder Prices from £1445pp (subject to availability). Contact us before booking! No single supplement. Full details and a Trip Report are on our website. Please read FIELD NOTES on page 9.

A fantastic holiday featuring the special resident birds and exploring migration on both the west and east coasts of the Highland. With Northern breeders on the move, it is an exciting time, and we visit some of the best places and habitats for birdwatching on both land and sea. Close to our Highland base we seek Ptarmigan, Black Grouse, Crested Tit, Osprey, Scottish Crossbill and more. It’s a great time of year, with bird numbers at their highest as juvenile birds boost the local populations.

At this time anything can turn up and on a dedicated day we explore the attractive Tarbet Peninsular and we will also likely visit the Moray and Black Isle coasts too. All support high densities of farmland birds at the same time offering vast potential for migrant passerines and with busy estuaries and sea lochs nearby, we will accumulate a high day list on these days. An overnight stay on the west coast, gives us more time to search for top quality birds including Golden and White-tailed Eagle, three species of diver, seaduck and perhaps Twite if we are lucky. Otters are possible too and on our seatrip across the Minch we have chances of cetaceans and hope to see Petrels, Shearwaters, Skuas or perhaps a rarity among commoner seabirds. Absorbing birding during a busy period in the Scottish birding calendar. Five nights at Mountview Hotel. Two nights on the West Coast.

Combine with:

SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS

20 Scottish Specials (p26), NEW! Highland Migration by Land and Sea (p25), The Outer Limits Adventure (p27), Raptors and Grouse (p27).

SCOTTISH ISLANDS

North Ron & Orkney in Autumn for birders (p42), Outer Hebrides in early Autumn for birders (p43).