France 2008

Come catch some oysters with us in Provence in May!
Details on the next tour are available on line now, along with a brief report about this year’s.

Michael put me onto this title while I was planning our Camargue trip, and I can’t recommend it enough: not only does it have a fine set of clearly described itineraries for birding the most important sites (one of which we lifted nearly wholesale for this year’s trip), but this attractively produced book also provides […]

Just 40 miles from Arles is one of the great achievements of Roman engineering, the aqueduct and bridge known as the Pont du Gard.

Two thousand years old, the bridge can still be walked, but birders come here less for the splendor of its ancient stones than for the excitement of its birdlife. Alpine Swifts and […]

Les Baux, barely half an hour from St-Martin, is everyone’s favorite medieval village, perched high in the limestone hills of Les Alpilles with a ruined castle brooding above.

Black Redstarts love the place, but birders know it for a number of other specialties, most of which behaved nicely for us on the beautifully bright day we […]

The stony plains of La Crau, a scant half hour east of Arles, are on of France’s most unexpected landscapes, more like the flats of Spain or the steppes of eastern Europe than anything else.

The birdlife at the Peau de Meau preserve is also steppe-like, with regionally significant populations of birds that are rare […]