England Birds & Gardens: Southwest
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- Acclaimed gardens with varied designs and styles in the green rolling English countryside, and excellent birding in the well-established network of nature reserves and national parks that occur across England.
- April is a delightful month to be in England; mild and pleasant, fine evenings. The start of the breeding season for birds, and delightful spring & early summer flowers in gardens.
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- Mild, pleasant weather
- Tour price includes all meals, accommodation, entrance fees, and transport while on the tour
- Easy to moderate walking, mainly short drives, comfortable vehicles; a couple of long drives
- 6 to 12 participants with two leaders
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Our Tour begins after dinner in the lobby of our hotel near Heathrow where our leaders will meet the group to discuss the upcoming trip and the next day’s activities.
In the morning, we visit the Royal Horticultural Society’s garden at Wisely. Wisley is reputedly Britain’s premier demonstration garden with 97ha (240 acres) offering a fascinating blend of the beautiful and practical in horticulture that incorporate innovative design...
Kent hosts several excellent nature reserves, protecting marshland, rich deciduous woodlands, shallow lakes and ponds. This morning we visit Dungeness, one of the oldest nature reserves in England, established in 1929. Wetland areas support breeding Northern Lapwing, ...
In the morning, we visit the garden at Sissinghurst Castle. The ‘garden rooms’ style of planting is one of the most described and emulated in the British Isles. It was the joint creation of poet and writer Vita Sackville-West and her diplomat husband Harold Nicholson....
We head through Hampshire to the New Forest, an area of pasture, woodland and heaths and noted particularly for breeding raptors. Our main interest is locating the enigmatic Dartford Warbler, as well as Common Redstart, Woodlark, Firecrest, Red Crossbill and hunting Eurasian Hobby. Night in Dorset.
This morning we visit the RSPB site at Arne, a fine stand of pines and heathland alongside Poole Harbour, and a very rich area for birds, including Dartford Warbler, Black-tailed Godwit, Tree Pipit, Common Shelduck and Little Egret, and we walk the easy trails through...
This morning we visit the RSPB’s excellent wildlife sites at Lodmoor, Radipole Lake and Portland Bill. Radipole Lake is renowned for its breeding populations of Bearded Reedlings and Cetti’s Warblers, which we will certainly hear, and with luck see clearly. Portland B...
Today we visit the RSPB site at Yarner Woods on Dartmoor, an area of riparian woodland and heathland that supports Lesser and Great Spotted Woodpeckers, Stonechat and a good variety of other species including Gray Wagtail, Wood Warbler and Pied Flycatcher. We also dri...
Considered to be Europe’s largest garden restoration project, the Lost Gardens of Heligan are fascinating because of their “lost and found” saga. The fact that the product of a team of 100 gardeners of a once great estate could so quickly fall into ruins, but then be ...
Today we visit Trebah. Listed as one of the great gardens of Cornwall, Trebah is a subtropical paradise framed against stunning coastal landscape. Its colours in spring are painted by ancient rhododendrons, camellias, bulbs in woods and meadows, primulas around stream...
We may visit birding sites today for species that we have not found so far. On our return to London, we drop in to the garden at Hestercombe House. The Georgian landscape garden contains ponds, a grand cascade and numerous classical landscape ornaments.. A new Edwardian garden was laid out by Gertrude Jeckyll and Edwin Luytens in the early 1900s. Night in London.
Our tour ends after breakfast in time for catching flights back home.
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Availability Date: Tuesday, April 18, 2017 to Saturday, April 29, 2017
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