Destinations
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Holiday reports
We hope these reports of previous Honeyguide wildlife holidays give a good feel of the style of our holidays and the wildlife to be enjoyed on them.
Included here are reports from some destinations not in the current Honeyguide programme. These may return to the programme in a future year, or could be arranged for RSPB local groups, natural history societies or other groups. Please contact the Honeyguide office for more information.
The reports are in PDF format which needs Adobe software to enable you read, download or print reports. You can download this from here.
2012
Extremadura - February
Fuerteventura
2011
Bulgaria
Camargue
Cévennes
Crete
Danube Delta and the Carpathians
Dordogne
Extremadura
French Pyrenees
Istria
Madeira - November
Menorca
Poland
South Africa's South Western Cape
Spanish Pyrenees private group holiday
Tarifa & Gibraltar September
2010
Bulgaria
Central Portugal
Cévennes
Danube Delta and the Carpathians U3A Cambridge Bird Club
Dordogne
Eastern Greece Salisbury & District Natural History Society
Extremadura
Kruger National Park, South Africa
Lesvos –
September
Madeira
Menorca - May
Poland
2009
Algarve
Bulgaria –
September
Cévennes
Crete U3A Cambridge Bird Club
Danube Delta and the Carpathians
Dordogne
Eastern Greece
Extremadura
French Pyrenees partly Salisbury & District Natural History Society
Lesvos
Madeira
Menorca
South Africa's Garden Route
2008
Crete
Danube Delta and the Carpathians
Dordogne Salisbury & District Natural History Society
Eastern Greece U3A Cambridge Bird Club
Extremadura
Istria
Madeira
–
February
Madeira
–
March
Menorca
Northern Cyprus
South Africa's Western Cape
Spanish Pyrenees
2007
Algarve Salisbury & District Natural History Society
Camargue
Crete
Dordogne
Eastern Greece
Extremadura
French Pyrenees
Italy / Slovenia
Lesvos
–
September
Menorca
South Africa's Western Cape
2006
Algarve
Crete
Dordogne
Eastern Greece
Extremadura
Hungary
–
June Salisbury & District Natural History Society
Hungary
–
September
Italy / Slovenia
Lesvos
Menorca
Spanish Pyrenees
2005
Algarve
Crete
Danube Delta
Dordogne U3A Cambridge Bird Club (mostly)
Extremadura (1)
Extremadura (2) Colchester Natural History Society
French Pyrenees
Hungary - September
Lesvos
Menorca
Italy / Slovenia Salisbury & District Natural History Society
South Africa's Western Cape
2004
Crete
Danube
Delta
Dordogne
(1) Cambridge RSPB Local Group
Dordogne (2)
Eastern Greece
Extremadura
French Pyrenees
Lesvos (1)
Lesvos (2) Salisbury & District Natural History Society
Menorca
Spanish Pyrenees
2003
Camargue (1)
Camargue (2) Colchester Natural History Society
Crete
Danube Delta
Dordogne
Extremadura (1)
Extremadura (2) Salisbury & District Natural History Society
French Pyrenees
Lesvos
Menorca
Romania, September: Ancient Tree Forum study tour (Link to external website)
Slovakia
Spanish Pyrenees
2002
Camargue 2002
Crete 2002
(1)
Crete 2002 (2)
Danube Delta
2002
Dordogne 2002
Extremadura
2002
French Pyrenees
2002 Salisbury & District Natural History Society
Menorca 2002
Slovakia
2002
Spanish Pyrenees
2002 Cambridge RSPB Local Group
Holiday reports 1991-2001 ... click on the link below for an additional web page.
Holiday reports 1991-2001 (incomplete)
Madeira firecrest (Madeira Wind Birds) One of the star birds on Madeira – where else?
Other reports, including recce visits to holiday destinations
2011
Picos de Europa
recce, October
2010
Peloponnese (Greece) recce, November
2009
Poland recce September
Central Portugal recce February
2008
Portugal nature tourism workshop
Bulgaria recce
Cevennes recce October
Istria recce - March
2007
Madeira recce Nov
2001
Private
group holiday based at Finca Santa Marta, Extremadura in January
2001 - Honeyguide's Chris Durdin was there (Link to external website)
Blue rock thrush (Steve Fletcher). A bird that can be seen on many Honeyguide holidays in Europe, including Extremadura and Istria.
'Missing' reports in 2010: there's no Crete holiday report this year for the first time for many years as this holiday was called off when flights were cancelled due to volcanic ash. (For the same reason, the Menorca holiday was postponed from April to to May.) There's no French Pyrenees report for this holiday in September as it was cancelled due to air traffic control strikes in France.
Wallcreeper (Svetoslav Spasov) Bulgaria is the place to go to see these. Or read more on our wallcreeper page.
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Often you see the logo below to indicate a PDF you can click on, but it's not necessary and they would certainly clutter the list of reports to the left.
Dordogne holiday reports 2001-2008 here exclude the complete flower list included in the printed version. That was on an excel file and not included on the web version, though is included from 2009. Those lists are available from the Honeyguide office.
Some holiday reports refer to thank-you letters from conservation bodies that were in Honeyguiders' printed reports but not always in these electronic versions.
Bell tower with storks nests, Trujillo, Extremadura
Lammergeier (Chris Knights)
The best place to these
magnificent birds of prey is the Spanish Pyrenees or the French Pyrenees.
‘Fight for the right’, spoonbills by Daniel Petrescu.
To see more of Daniel’s pictures, visit www.daniel.petrescu.ro
