Tour Overview
This unique, double-themed tour combines birding and gardens in a delightful part of the world, southern England, at a very enchanting time of year.
We visit some of the finest gardens in a country where gardening is a way of life – from the Royal horticultural seat at Wisley, to Christopher Lloyd’s Great Dixter, the garden rooms at Sissinghurst as well as Nymans, the Castle gardens at Caerhays, the amazing colours at Compton Acres, the rediscovered gardens of Heligan, and Trebah’s exquisite garden.
We wend our way through the southern coastal counties of England, from Kent through Sussex and Hampshire to Devon and Cornwall. We blend our garden visits with stops at several productive and rewarding nature reserves, RSPBs and National Parks, from Stodmarsh and Dungeness in Kent to Arne, Radipole Lake and Portland Bill in Dorset, and Yarner Woods and Dawlish Warren in Devon and Cornwall.
We will see a fine cross section of England’s birdlife: Bearded Reedlings and Common Shelduck in wetlands, Gray Wagtails and European Dippers along waterways, Eurasian Hobby over heathland, nesting seabirds at Portland Bill, Red-billed Choughs on Cornish cliffs, and Dartford Warbler in furze stands and Woodlarks in newly regenerating forest. A very special and exciting tour led by experts in both gardens and birds!
We also offer an England Birds & Gardens: SE tour in even years.
