We have just completed a very successful Pyrenees tour with all realistic targets seen plus plenty of others! A few of the highlights are attached below. Bookings are now open for our 2027 Pyrenees tour: www.oriolebirding.com/tour/spanish...

Just back from a great scouting trip to Trinidad for @oriolebirding.bsky.social. The hummingbirds were a big highlight of course, and a few of my favourites are attached below.

We recently returned from a very successful scouting trip to Trinidad ahead of our new tour there starting in 2027. To read about our visit and check out the 2027 tour details visit our website: www.oriolebirding.com/birding-diar... 📸by @jonathanfarooqi.bsky.social

Back at Sheringham for more excellent views of the Eastern Black Redstart for @oriolebirding.bsky.social winter tour. Plus a textbook 2cy Caspian Gull on the beach there. #NorfolkBirding #UKBirding

Kalimera. While I am still out here in #lesvos I think I should give a plug for the @oriolebirding.bsky.social tour that I am leading from 26th April. www.oriolebirding.com/tour/lesvos-... Come and join me for a wildlife filled week in the Aegean. There are still places available.

A top first few days for our first Norfolk (with a bit of Lincs and Cambs!) Winter tour of the year. More on the Birding Diary here: www.oriolebirding.com/birding-diar... Spaces still available for 18-23 Jan! #NorfolkBirding #UKbirding

It's been quite the year for rarities on our UK tours so we've put together a blog post looking back on some our favourites. We can't wait to see what next year has in store! #UKBirding www.oriolebirding.com/top-10-uk-ra...

A top Antpitta day for our Peru group with Red and White, Urubamba and Leymebamba all seen at point blank range at Wayqecha Biological Station, Manu Road

A fantastic day for our Peru group visiting a Harpy Eagle nest in the lower Amazonian reaches of the Manu Road. A long trip to get there and a tense two hour wait to find the now fledged chick in the nest vicinity but eventually mega views!

A mega moment for our Peru group this morning on the trails at Owlet Lodge as we found the nest of an Ochre-fronted Antpitta by chance. We also managed to film the adult feeding the well grown single chick but it spent most of its time brooding in the heavy rain

This fabulous Royal Sunangel was a highlight today for our group while birding at Fundo Alto Nieva in Northern Peru

An exciting moment for our Oman group yesterday as they found the country's 6th Red Collared Dove!

Our South Africa tour enjoyed a spectacular pelagic out of Cape Town yesterday, including 4 species of albatross, both Giant Petrels, Pintado and Spectacled Petrels and Cape Gannets! 📷 by Neil Colgate and @howardvaughanbeb.bsky.social

Our first tour to the Western Cape going well, the forests have delivered. We are currently sitting on 224 species with more yet to come!

A nice find on our Durham & Northumberland tour today was this moulting adult American Golden Plover roosting on the rocks off the east end of the Crooked Lonnen, Holy Island #UKBirding

Well that’s a turn up! Eye-browed Thrush at Porthloo duck pond this morning for our Scilly tour group! We’ve had a good run of Oriole UK lifers this autumn with this hot on the heels of the Needletail, Sibe Thrush and Mourning Dove 📷 credit Simon Knight #UKbirding

Our group refound the East Yorkshire White-throated Needletail at Bempton Cliffs this afternoon. Unbelievable moment when it shot through as we were watching a Barn Owl! Raced down to cliffs to relocate and initially no sign, but it then reappeared and we had it flying over our heads 🤯🤯

Siberian Thrush for both of our Shetland groups today! 👇

It was a good day for our Shetland tour on Yell and Unst. Highlights included Common Rosefinch, Hawfinch, 4 Glossy Ibis and, perhaps best of all, this confiding Short-toed Lark. 📸 by @jonathanfarooqi.bsky.social #UKBirding #ShetlandBirding

It’s been a good start to our @oriolebirding.bsky.social Shetland tour as a stop at Musselburgh on the way up to Aberdeen produced the long-staying Marsh Sandpiper, White-winged Scoter, Surf Scoter and plenty more! #UKBirding

We spent the rest of our final morning on Shetland y’day checking spots up the west side of Mainland, including the burn of Geosetter. Just a Blackcap seen on the way up, but coming back down this stunning Wood Warbler popped out! Pic by @chrisddarby.bsky.social #UKbirding

The Blue-winged Teal at Hillwell y’day kicked off the final day of our 1st group to Shetland of the season. We were lucky as it flew in from the south with a group of Teal just as we arrived. Certainly a lot easier to pick out in flight than on the deck! #UKbirding Pic by @chrisddarby.bsky.social

Taxonomy didn’t ruin the excitement for our Shetland group this morning when we stumbled on this absolutely stunning Hornemann’s Arctic Redpoll up at North Roe with the Isbister sparrow flock! Hopefully a sign that more will be on the way! #UKbirds #UKbirding

Marsh Warbler at Hillswick this afternoon was a just reward for our Shetland group after sticking out some pretty grim weather for most of the day! Very elusive but eventually showed ok - a really buttery one which at times looked more like a Garden or pale Icterine! #UKbirding #UKbirds

A few pics from @oriolebirding.bsky.social tour to Andalucia last week. Amazing day 3 as 17000 Honey Buzzards passed, we personally enjoyed around 8k in an awesome morning mixed with Marsh & Montagu’s Harriers, Booted & Short-toed Eagle, White & Black Storks & hundreds of Bee-eaters! #birding

Norfolk for @oriolebirding.bsky.social 11 Sept 25 My day started in the Broads where the Black-winged Kite performed before meeting up with the clients at Titchwell for an intense but very rewarding three hours out on the reserve before dinner. blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/09/norf... #Birds

It is fair to say the @oriolebirding.bsky.social trip to Wexford is going well. Sabine’s on the crossing, loads of waders including Buff-breasted, Pectoral, White-rumped Sands and Grey Phals. Glossy Ibises galore and a pair of fishing Ospreys at the mighty Tacumshin. Pics by @cianbirder.bsky.social

Our 2025 Panama tour running 29 Nov-15 Dec is just ONE BOOKING away from guaranteed departure. If you fancy seeing some iconic Central American birds, including a visit to a Harpy Eagle nest then press the link below for more information! www.oriolebirding.com/tour/panama-... Photo: Alan Harrison

What a truly amazing days birding in the Straits of Gibraltar on @oriolebirding.bsky.social tour - c9000 Honey Buzzards, hundreds of Booted, Short-toed Eagles, 1000+ Bee-eaters, 25 Montagu’s Harriers, Black Storks & over 1000 White Storks, the latter performing this mesmerising sight overhead!!

A new blog post now on the Birding Diary from an epic couple of days in County Kerry last week Monster seawatching, dramatic scenery and American shorebirds - put your name down now for a new tour dropping soon for 2026! www.oriolebirding.com/county-kerry...

It’s been quiet on @NRonBirdObs for our three-day stay but we managed to score in injury time with this Common Rosefinch which flew past us while we were driving back from the lighthouse to the Obs this evening, just before we caught the plane! #UKbirding #BirdingScotland

Birding Diary now online from an enjoyable first couple of days birding @northronbirdobs.bsky.social www.oriolebirding.com/birding-diar... Pics by Sonja Herz #BirdingScotland #UKbirding

Birding Diary now online from our first couple of days here in Orkney. Todays highlight was fantastic views of Red-throated Divers close inshore off Evie pier, Orkney Mainland www.oriolebirding.com/birding-diar... #UKbirding #BirdingScotland

On our way up to Orkney, and having enjoyed some great Ospreys and White-tailed Eagles along the North-east coast on the way up, we had just enough time before the ferry to stop at Loch Watten where this smart drake Ring-necked Duck was a nice bonus among the Tufties! #BirdingScotland #UKbirding

A splash of Mediterranean colour on the Western Isles for our group yesterday when they found this European Bee-eater on the Isle of Barra at Brevig, later moving down to Nasg 📷 by @howardvaughanbeb.bsky.social #HebridesBirds #BirdingScotland

Our Colombia tour has just completed with a whopping 460 species recorded but there is no doubt about the highlight - it was a case of right place, right time for us to see one of the rarest and most endangered birds in South America, the mythical Santa Marta Sabrewing!

One of the highlights of this weeks tour was the Lesser White-fronted Goose flock over at Ken Hill on Wednesday. We were lucky to see them close before a microlight flushed them and they flew straight at us. 📸 by tour participant David Carlsson

Time for another trip plug Mallorca & Cabrera - Balearic Birding in the Autumn with @oriolebirding.bsky.social 16th - 23rd September 2025 www.oriolebirding.com/tour/mallorc... A September visit to a traditional spring venue to coincide with raptor & passerine passage as well as some cool locals.

A Common Swift takes a drink on its wintering grounds in Namibia, taken on our recent tour by leader Phil Palmer Tour report now online here: oriolebirding.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/2024-Namibia.pdf

Read our new blog post via the link below following an epic fact-finding trip to Peru. Look out for a new itinerary coming soon for late 2025 but you can pre-register your interest now by emailing us www.oriolebirding.com/birding-diar...

Got back from guiding in South Africa last week with an @oriolebirding.bsky.social group. Some fantastic birds seen over the two weeks, here are two species that emit a very different feel to anything we have here in Europe; Acadia Pied Barbet and Cape Sugarbird.

After a brilliant day exploring Loch Ryan our Dumfries & Galloway tour enjoyed sunset views of a flock of 126 Greenland Whitefronts at West Freugh with Merlin, Peregrine and Hen Harrier to boot. #birdingScotland #ukbirding

Classic Caerlaverock for our private tour from Marylebone Birdwatching Society today as we enjoyed close-up Whooper Swans and gaggles of Barnacles on the Scottish Solway #ukbirding

Two Bluetails in two weeks, one in Cornwall and one in Yorkshire, both on Oriolebirding tours, an achievement that would have been unthinkable thirty one years ago when the first twitchable mainland one was found.

Pel’s Fishing Owl to start the day for our group in Botswana! The panhandle of the Okavango is a great place to get good views of this mega species