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Iceland Birding by Birding In Spain

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Here is a brief look at our Midsummer Iceland Tour 2024

5 participants all from the USA

Picnic on our Summer Iceland Birding Tour

Dates: 9th to 16th June 2024

68 bird species encountered

Mammals: Humpback Whale, Harbour Porpoise, Minke Whale

Loa’s nest: one of our guesthouses in Iceland

Birding highlights:

• Snow Buntings singing from the roofs on Flatey Island
• Roadside Rock Ptarmigans in the north
• Large numbers of Pink-footed Goose in the north
• A host of wetland birds at Myvatn Lake
• The only Black-throated Diver in Iceland
• Three White-tailed Eagles on one morning
• Breeding Brünnich’s Guillemots in a howling gale
• Watching summer plumaged Slavonian Grebes diving in clear water
• Watching delightful spinning Red-necked Phalaropes
• Great Northern Divers in full breeding plumage
• Puffins off shore and from the ferry to Flatey
• Displaying waders in our guesthouse garden
• Great weather for a picnic
• Whale-watching as good as ever
• Spectacular waterfalls adorned with Ravens and Fulmars

Atlantic Puffin, Iceland Birding Tour

Northern lights and birds

Our delightful autumn Iceland Northern Lights and Birds Tour, in brief

Northern Lights Iceland 2024

Dates: September 30th to October 6th

Days: 7

Overnight Destinations (3): Hellar, Stykkisholmur, Reykjavik

Bird species detected: 61

Northern Lights: Spectacular show on our northern lights cruise from Reykjavik on October 4th

Waterfalls: Gullfoss and Skogafoss

Skogafoss waterfall, Iceland

Scenery highlights: Dyrholaev headland, Kirkjufell, Gunnuhver hot springs, Súgandisey Island, Arnarstapi

Bird highlights:

• 6 relaxed Rock Ptarmigan sheltering from the wind in a small pinewood near Stykkisholmur
• A roadside flock of Pink-footed Goose and flocks of White-fronted Goose
• Glaucous and Iceland Gulls of all ages everywhere
• Flocks of Sooty Shearwaters off the headlands
• Flocks of Purple Sandpipers and Golden Plovers
• Finding a vagrant Baird’s Sandpiper on our penultimate day
• Barrow’s Goldeneye, Harlequin Duck, Great Northern Diver, Red-throated Diver, Long-tailed Duck

Pink-footed Goose flock, Iceland

We’ve been offering unique Winter Wallcreeper Tours in northeast Spain for many years now. There’s a reason for that – they’re so good! Here’s what a satisfied client had to say about this tour after her visit in November 2023.

Thank you so much for such an amazing trip .It was everything and more than I expected. Such beautiful scenery and light as well as so many birds. All expertly found by yourself by taking us to so many different places.

It was all so well planned , so that even though we had some long drives , you had planned a stop with some birds and a coffee (we won’t mention that we had some food shopping!)

The hotels were great -comfortable and good food particularly at Hostería de Guara. Great trip-just the right length.I think the girls were as happy as myself with everything.When you are responsible for organising a group there is some apprehension about the response.

I needn’t have worried.

R. MacClintock, UK, November 2023

Riglos, one of the destinations of our Winter Wallcreeper tour

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