I'm hoping in the next few years to try and see a bunch of European Mountain species.
Wallcreeper, Alpine Chough, Nutcracker, Alpine Accentor, Citril Finch, White Winged Snow Finch and Lammergeier being the main ones.
I've noticed that Naturetrek do a few Swiss plant and butterfly trips based in Wengen that have most of them on the trip lists ( except Wallcreeper but I'm hoping to try romania next year and Lammergeier being a little erratic and obviously introduced anyway) which crucially say that the trips will all be done using cable cars and rail. As a teacher none of the trips work for me date wise and they obviously aren't bird focused anyway (although I'd also love the butterflies) but I wondered if anyone had any experience of looking for these species in Switzerland using public transport and how realistic it would be and how easy it would be to just replicate it privately.
If anyone has any alternative locations that would also be great, I'm limited to school holidays
Wallcreeper, Alpine Chough, Nutcracker, Alpine Accentor, Citril Finch, White Winged Snow Finch and Lammergeier being the main ones.
I've noticed that Naturetrek do a few Swiss plant and butterfly trips based in Wengen that have most of them on the trip lists ( except Wallcreeper but I'm hoping to try romania next year and Lammergeier being a little erratic and obviously introduced anyway) which crucially say that the trips will all be done using cable cars and rail. As a teacher none of the trips work for me date wise and they obviously aren't bird focused anyway (although I'd also love the butterflies) but I wondered if anyone had any experience of looking for these species in Switzerland using public transport and how realistic it would be and how easy it would be to just replicate it privately.
If anyone has any alternative locations that would also be great, I'm limited to school holidays