
Status | Starts | Group size | Leader | Duration/price Inc. flights from/to UK | Duration/price Exc. international flights | Single supp. | ||
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Available | Max. 8 |
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3 days: £495 pp. | £115 |
Join Bob Ford as we go back to our roots on a short break in the wonderful county of Dorset, at one of its very best hotels. South Dorset with the Isle of Portland sticking out into the English Channel includes some of the best sites in Britain – and some would say Europe – to witness the spectacle of bird migration.
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- Make your own way to The Heights Hotel.
- Note that rail travellers can be met at Weymouth station between 1700 and 1800.
- Accommodation: The Heights Hotel, 3-nights on full board basis
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- Each spring and autumn thousands of migrants break their long journeys by resting on Portland's fields and along the shoreline. The fields and hedges at this time can be alive with warblers, chats and flycatchers, with wheatears on the open fields.
- Offshore, seabirds such as skuas and shearwaters stream past the tip of Portland – ‘the Bill’ – en route to their Arctic breeding areas. Some, such as the puffin, stop to breed on Portland's high cliffs, along with a growing population of peregrine falcons and ravens. Portland is also famous for producing a surprise or two!
- The RSPB reserves at Radipole and Lodmoor are nearby with their breeding bearded tits and Cetti's warblers.
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- The tour ends after lunch today.
All prices are per person and include:
- Services of the naturalist leader
- Accommodation
- Meals
- Guided activities
Accommodation
The Heights Hotel is one of Dorset's best-situated hotels, high on the Portland cliffs overlooking Portland Harbour and Weymouth.
All rooms are en suite.
Meals
All meals are included. Breakfast and dinner are taken in the hotel, and picnic lunches are provided by the hotel.
Birds
The fields and hedges at this time can be alive with warblers, chats and flycatchers, with wheatears on the open fields.
- Bearded tit
- Cetti's warbler
- Peregrine falcon
- Puffin
Offshore, seabirds such as skuas and shearwaters stream past the tip of Portland en route to their Arctic breeding areas.
Ground transport
Travel to/from Dorset is not included. Rail travellers can be met at Weymouth station between 1700 and 1800.