England Birds & Gardens: Southeast
From: $500 CAD
This very special tour combines birding with the great British tradition of gardens! We take in gardens that deservedly have international reputations – the incomparable Kew Gardens, Beth Chatto’s Garden, Hyde Hall RHS, East Ruston, Wyken Hall, Bressingham Gardens, Barnsdale Gardens and many others not on regular tourist routes and with attractions all their own.
Our birding is at nature reserves and national parks, although naturally there is a suite of birds in the gardens themselves. We target several choice species – Pied Avocet, Dartford Warbler, Bearded Reedling, Cetti’s Warbler, Western Marsh Harrier, Stone Curlew, Nightingale and many more.
Starting in London, we first head to the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew before turning northeast to East Anglia, arguably the best birding area in England, where we visit Minsmere, Titchwell, Hickling Broad and Cley among several RSPB nature reserves.
