Bird Photography Tours in Spain with Ebro Delta Birding

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• Day One (arrival). We will collect you from Barcelona International Airport and provide a private transfer to our birders Guest House at the Ebro Delta. Remainder of the day at your leisure.
• Day Two (morning). We begin the tour in style with a car based photography session for European Bee-eaters at a nearby disused sand quarry. From a respectful distance, we will photograph Bee-eaters as they come and go from perches close to their breeding tunnels. We may be lucky enough to see courtship behaviour including food passes and perhaps even breeding sequences. We can expect to see them with a variety of different prey!
• Day Two (evening). Heading out late afternoon in improving light conditions we will enjoy a bird photography session by boat. Using the custom fitted electric motor we will be able to slowly and silently drift towards bird like Purple Heron, Little Bittern, Squacco Heron, Penduline Tit & Osprey, all of which can be located around the Islands of Sapinya & Gracia on the lower Ebro river.
• Day Three (morning). We will embark on our second boat trip, this time heading north from Amposta with the light behind us on an early morning start. Our destination will be the bird rich Illa de Vinallop which has good numbers of Eurasian Wryneck, Hoopoe, Golden Oriole & nesting Black Kites. Riverside songsters such as Great Reed Warbler, Nightingale & Cetti's warbler can be targeted, along with Whiskered Terns which will be busy feeding on insects in the shallows of the river and make great in flight subjects.
• Day Three (evening). A car based birding session around the best sites of the Ebro Delta. In the spring season we can target star birds such as Collared Pratincole, Yellow Wagtail, Woodchat Shrike, Flamingos and many more. We will visit the photo hide at Riet Vell, very reliable for Purple Swamphen, Water Rail and  perhaps Kingfisher (depending on season).
• Day Four (morning). Departing from the Ebro Delta early morning, we begin our road trip, and the first port of call will be at Sebes Nature Reserve. Here we will visit some of the photo hides which offer great opportunities for the likes of Kingfisher, Little Bittern, Marsh Harrier and Great Reed Warbler.
• Day Four (evening). We will be doing a car based session in the northern Monegros canyons, a true raptor hotspot particularly for Golden & Short-toed Snake Eagle. This productive zone also has some very photogenic passerines, such as Black-eared Wheatear, Spectacled, Dartford & Sardinian Warblers. Bee-eaters are also abundant in this zone, and with luck we could get chances with Great Spotted Cuckoo and perhaps even Eurasian Eagle-Owl.
• Day five (full day) - Hide photography, full day session north of Lleida for Lammergeier (Bearded Vulture) & Griffon Vultures. We will arrange a high quality private photo hide experience for the kings of the mountains. We have a very good possibility to photograph the Lammergeier feeding on the ground!
• Day six (morning) - A second half day session in a different photo hide further north in the Pyrenees, where we can expect to photograph Eurasian Black Vulture, Egyptian Vulture & multiple Griffons.

On conclusion of the final session, we will return you to Barcelona for return flights (late afternoon / evening), or over night accommodation if you intend to Tavel home the day following.