Steve Heath
Well-known member
Grateful for the thoughts of experienced oversea birders.
My main interest is photographing birds in order to paint them in watercolour. I have travelled around the UK and now, newly retired, hope to collect images of overseas birds for painting on rainy English days. While I'm happy to expand my life list I'm not specifically after ticks. So to my questions:
1. My wife likes birds and is happy to hike to see them, but would not thank me for too adventurous a holiday. Climbs up windswept mountains and day long 4x4 drives into the bush would not go down too well 😢.
2. Is a guided and organised trip strictly necessary? Could we, for example, arrange a holiday to the USA or Spain, say, and organise trips ourselves to key spots.
3. If we were to go on a guided birding trip would the onus be on getting as many birds in as possible. I really wouldn't want to frustrate fellow travellers by lingering over a single bird everyone else has ticked.
Any tips gratefully received
PS. Children, work and UK holidays has resulted in neither of us having travelled abroad in 25 years. So complete novices.
Thanks
Steve and Helen
My main interest is photographing birds in order to paint them in watercolour. I have travelled around the UK and now, newly retired, hope to collect images of overseas birds for painting on rainy English days. While I'm happy to expand my life list I'm not specifically after ticks. So to my questions:
1. My wife likes birds and is happy to hike to see them, but would not thank me for too adventurous a holiday. Climbs up windswept mountains and day long 4x4 drives into the bush would not go down too well 😢.
2. Is a guided and organised trip strictly necessary? Could we, for example, arrange a holiday to the USA or Spain, say, and organise trips ourselves to key spots.
3. If we were to go on a guided birding trip would the onus be on getting as many birds in as possible. I really wouldn't want to frustrate fellow travellers by lingering over a single bird everyone else has ticked.
Any tips gratefully received
PS. Children, work and UK holidays has resulted in neither of us having travelled abroad in 25 years. So complete novices.
Thanks
Steve and Helen