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Tailor Made Birding And Wildlife Tours

Yorkshire Coast Nature is offering an exclusive opportunity to design your own tailor-made birding day or wildlife safari. From the beautiful Yorkshire Wolds and Derwent Valley to the huge estuary of the Humber; from the Great Yorkshire Forests and moors of North Yorkshire and the rugged coastline near Whitby to the huge cliffs of Flamborough Headland, we can go anywhere you wish!

Tailor Made Birding And Wildlife Tours

Yorkshire Coast Nature is offering an exclusive opportunity to design your own tailor-made birding day or wildlife safari. From the beautiful Yorkshire Wolds and Derwent Valley to the huge estuary of the Humber; from the Great Yorkshire Forests and moors of North Yorkshire and the rugged coastline near Whitby to the huge cliffs of Flamborough Headland, we can go anywhere you wish!

Examples of recent tailor-made trips:

Whale Watching, Birds of Prey of the North Yorkshire Forests, Migrant Birds at Spurn, Winter Birding on the Yorkshire Coast, Seawatching at Flamborough, Butterflies of the North York Moors National Park, Puffins and Seabirds, Family Wildlife Safari,

If you only have a day, we recommend you focus your tour one or two areas or nature reserves. We can also help you arrange accommodation and with groups of four or less we can provide transport and provide pick up and drop off at local accommodation or your home. If you wish to book a longer tour however, there are even more opportunities.

We also provide accessibility focused tailor-made birding and wildlife tours. Richard Baines and Margaret Boyd are Accessibility Champions. For these tours (depending on your needs) we can focus your trip on any area you wish or we can include one of our special accessibility sites. 

For those needing advice on the best places to stay in the area, we have developed a partnership with some of the best accommodation in the area, offering fantastic places to stay in the heart of the countryside. Please visit our accommodation page to see what's on offer. Click Here

Prices start at £90/person for a group of four (not including YCN guide). This includes your private guide and transport. 

NB. These experinces can be tailored to any requiremements and they are dog friendly. We will be very happy to design a trip to your specific needs.  

Please contact richard.baines@yorkshirecoastnature.co.uk or 07747753260 for enquiries and up to date prices

Tailor Made Birding and Wildlife Tours

Richard Baines PGdip MCIEEM

Company Director And Birding/Wildlife Guide

Richard’s love of birds and wildlife started at age nine when he watched wide eyed as a charm of European Goldfinch fed on a thistle within a few feet of him in the grounds of his primary school. The next day he was busy drawing the flock in his art class./tutors/2/richard-baines-pgdip-mcieem

Tailor Made Birding and Wildlife Tours

Mark Pearson BSc Hons

Birding/Wildlife Guide

Mark is an obsessive Yorkshire coast birder and naturalist whose roles include wildlife guide, ecologist, speaker, writer and educator. He is well known as a passionate, exceptional communicator, whether in the field with YCN clients, in the classroom with/tutors/6/mark-pearson-bsc-hons

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Margaret Boyd BSc PGCE

Birding/Wildlife Guide

Margaret has been a keen birder from an early age, growing up in the Ribble Valley, in Lancashire. At a younger age Margaret spent most of her time out in the field on her local patch as well as birding across the country and abroad. She spent a summer as an/tutors/17/margaret-boyd-bsc-pgce