Scottish birding holiday - January 2025

I have just paid my deposit. Who else is going!?  

The bonnie banks of the River Spey beckon . . .

LBC's travel partners, Cairngorm Travel, are again putting on a birding trip from Lincolnshire to their hotel in the Scottish Highlands - this time in January.

The dates are: Tuesday January 14 to Saturday January 18, 2025.

As on our two previous trips, it includes:

* Coach trip to and from Kingussie, with pick-ups in Grimsby, Cleethorpes, Lincoln and possibly Louth, Brigg and/or Scunthorpe

* Four nights at the Duke of Gordon Hotel, with five-course candlelit  evening meals and full Scottish breakfasts

* Live evening  entertainment 

* Birding walks within a three-mile radius of the hotel - including one to RSPB Insh Marshes (major habitat for over-wintering whooper swans and other  wetland birds  with good chance of  harriers and other raptors).

* Subject to later confirmation of the itinerary, there may also be complimentary coach excursion(s) to birding destinations ( in a quest for divers, long tailed ducks, ptarmigan, crested tits, crossbills etc) on either one or both days.

The price: £259 each for two persons sharing a room. There is a £20 per night single person supplement - but this is waived for the first 10 singles to make a booking (these tend to get snapped up quickly).

For the third consecutive year, the holiday is being put on by the Lincolnshire Bird Club’s partners, Goole-based company Cairngorm Travel (01405 761334), through whom all bookings need to be made.

The birding holiday is bespoke and thus not in the company’s brochure, but more details about the Duke of Gordon hotel can be found at the Cairngorm Travel website 
www.cairngorm-travel.co.uk .

Bookings open next Monday September  23 at 9.30am: 01405 761334 

The name of holiday is SB25-1/ Scottish Bird Safari January.

The last two holidays have been really friendly events, with a good blend of birders of various levels of expertise - and some who are not birders at all but just enjoy the tonic of a change of scene, a welcoming hotel, fresh Highland air and magnificent scenery.