Day tour

We will go for a leisurely walk around the Kotu Creek and Fajara golf course. This will be our first chance to see Africa species that will be the focus of our trip, the tidal crack immediate golf cause surroundings are excellent for waders, egrets, kingfishers, double spurred francolin, whiteface whistling duck, yellow billed shrike. Glossy starlings and huge cumbersome western grey plantain-eaters. This should also include grey kestrel painted snipe with a luck we might see abyssian roller, blue-bellied roller, green a wood hoopoe sitting in a palm tree or a black egret famous umbrella fishing technique.

Day tour

Today we drive down the Coast to the village of Brufut and spend much of the morning birding in the woodland and scrub habitat. The protected area is excellence for an array of woodland species including Africa green pigeon, klass’s cuekoo, white-faced scop owl, pearl-spotted owlet , lizard buzzard, African harrier hawk, shikra, Senegal parrot, common- wattle eye, northern black flycatcher, sunbirds, black-crowned tchargra and long tail nightjar

It is always also very interesting to spend time at the water pound near the entrance of Brufut woods some varieties of yellow -white eye, northern crombec, pygmy kingfisher, violet and Green touraco Coming to the pound to bath and drink.

In the morning, we will take a walk around the area and we will be back for lunch and in the afternoon we will take a boat to look for the shining blue Kingfisher, creaunson Seed cracker.

Visit the forest gallery park sitting some for Tanjie bird reserve is a protected area. Tanjie is amazing bustling fishing village with all the sites, sounds and smells entails it is also superb for a vanity of coastal birds. There many target species here and we expect to see royal, lesser, crested, Caspian , little and sandwich tern walking our way through the gulls should reveal grey-headed , slender billed, yellow-legged gull. If we are lucky we might see a lone kelp gull standing on the beach, many familiar waders will be along the shore if the tide is low, less familiar may be the pink backed pelicans sitting on the fishing boats 200m north, Tanjie village on the beach is kingfisher nesting colony where a steam enters the sea.

We will have lunch in Tanjie and then go back to your hotel and have relaxing afternoon, in the evening we will go for a gentle bird walk looking specially painted snips black crack and perhaps if we are lucky oriole warbler.ur-winged Goose, African fish Eagle, African Fin foot, swamp flycatcher etc., etc. and be back for dinner .

Day tour

We head to the famous Abuko nature reserve where we immediately get to grips with birds at the tropical forest until other parts of Africa one of the joys of the Gambia is to be walking around birding without being on the menu of a large pressure, so long as we avoid the edge of the crocodile pool! Nowhere more apparent than at Abuko where we will spend all morning walking around the gallery forest and enjoying birds luckily are hides and we can sit quietly and watch the wildlife.

There are many target species at Abuko but none more stunning than green touraco and violet Touraco. The list of possible species Senegal Thicknee, black-headed heron, nesting palm nut vulture, Africa darter, hammer kop, giant kingfisher, Africa pygmy kingfisher, blue bellied roller, flycatchers, western bluebill little Greenbul, western bluebill, Ocassionally visitor of the African Goshawk Oriole warbler, yellow-throated leaf love, fanti saw-wing swallow, blue-spitted word dove lizard buzzard white headed helmet shrike, bearded barbet . We will go to the marvellous Lamin lodge (built on stilts) for relaxing lunch and cold drink whilst over-looking the mangrove. The afternoon we will bird around the field margins searching for bee-eaters, pigeons, doves, weavers, manikins, fire-fishes, bishops, and sparrows.