In Conclusion

So I had a good holiday, and would highly recommend it. I ended up seeing 111 species of bird, good for a week in early July. I saw three lifers, and 34 year ticks, however these year ticks included a number of birds I had seen only a few times before or many years ago. This holiday took me to areas I had never been before and opened up my birding horizons.
The Stand out species were a whooping ten species of bird of prey, including eagles and harriers.

The holiday group

 

Next year the plan is to take a birdwatching excursion to the Outer Hebrides, to look for corncrakes and other birds.

So that's it for the blog for a while, as I'm going to be too busy to do any birding for a while. I do hope you enjoy reading it, and as always please write to me to tell me what you think.