Birding Haapsalu

Winter tours 2025 summary

Although early spring and spring are the most popular time to visit Estonia, 2025 was good example how rewarding winter birding can be. Thanks to the Hawk Owl irruption we had several short winter birding tours in January and early February. All trips got very good sightings of the Hawk Owl. Below are some images […]

Spring migration and forest birds – tour highlights with photos

In early May we guided spring migration and forest birds tour. A week long birding holiday was full of highlights with nearly 170 species recorded. Below you can find some of the photos taken during this year tour. Birding highlights: 110 StellerĀ“Eiders, thousands of Long-tailed Ducks and Common Scoters, Red-necked and Slavonian Grebes in breeding […]

Tour highlights of January 2023

In terms of guiding, January is usually rather quiet month for us. Most of the visitors explore the country from late February to early October. Male Three-toed Woodpecker photographed by Tarvo on our early January birding tour. ItĀ“s always the most elusive Woodpecker species.  This January we guided two trips – 3 days birding trip […]