About Us
We have over 17 years of knowledge and information about this area of the high pyrenees. We had always spent our holidays here and loved the area so much that we moved to this area of un-spoilt France. The knowledge we have is freely available to all those who come to stay here whether for a walking or a wildlife holiday we have guides with the knowledge to make your holiday here a memorable experience.
Moreover, we are able to offer a personal but professional approach, information and support. As a small family company we pride ourselves in offering a good and caring service.
So if you are looking for mountain based birding holiday in a magnificent mountain setting, the best thing to do is contact us with dates in mind and with an idea from the website as to which holiday week will match your requirements.
Holiday Dates 2008/09 - see pricing page for more information.
Our guided holidays include 6 days of bird watching within the local area and the French Pyrenees. Our birding/nature programme varies from month to month but we have our usual places we visit thoughout the week, these are weather dependant. The fully inclusive cost for the week is from £850.00 based on varying numbers. Our guided weeks include airport transfers to and from Pau, half board - breakfast, evening meal with wine included, packed lunch plus transportation to all sites of interest.
RSPB MEMBERS PLEASE NOTE THAT EVERY 8TH PERSON OF YOUR GROUP WILL GO FREE THIS IS FOR ALL HOLIDAYS BOOKED BEFORE APRIL 2009.
Our english guide(s) some of whom are local residents with superb knowledge of the surrounding mountains they observe some of the specialist pyrenean birds, flora and fauna year round. They have many excellent wildlife / birding / nature sites where many of the target birds - flowers - butterlies can be found within a very short time, these may take days for the individual naturalist to find! Our guides for your bird watching/nature holiday is included in the prices shown prices page.
Here is a small note from a previous customer, who wrote:
Great birding, glorious landscape and wonderful food just about sums up our week with you at Bareges. Everybody had a fantastic week and all had at least one lifer and most many more. Three Wallcreepers (in one day), three Lammergeier, including the only juvenile in the midi-Pyrenees is just brilliant. Added to that, Alpine Accentor, Snowfinch, Citril Finch, Rock Bunting, Rock Thrush, Alpine Chough, Black Woodpecker, Griffon Vulture plus the Eagles: Booted, Short Toed, Bonellis, Golden, the list goes on! I can't thank you enough for the efforts you, Charles and Rachel put in to make our week so successful and having a guide plus being taken round in the minibus just made it all so much easier and better. And great value for money. I think that we saved over half the cost of other organised guided tours and probably saw more birds. Our only problem was missing all that lovely food when we got back home. NDOC Sept 07
