Extended Birding Trips

Adirondacks Trip by Bill Cavers

We make it easy (and fun!) to experience birding outside our local area.

Bedford Audubon offers extended birding weekends throughout the year. Whether your an experienced or novice birder, these flexible and friendly adventures are a great way to make new friends and find species you might not otherwise see.

Menu of Birding Trips

Email info@bedfordaudubon.org for information and updates on specific trips or to register.

Summer Birding

Adirondacks, NY

Friday, June 27 – Monday, June 30, 2025

Home to a wide variety of migratory and year-round species, birding is an all-season activity in the Adirondacks! Between boreal birds, birds of prey, perching birds, and waterfowl, this area is a birding paradise. Tait Johansson, our naturalist-in-residence, will maximize your experience by leading you to a variety of habitats in search of some Adirondack specialties including Canada Warblers, Blackburnian Warblers, Mourning Warblers, Black-backed Woodpecker, Canada Jay, Boreal Chickadee, Bicknell’s Thrush, Ruffed Grouse, Philadelphia Vireo, Red Crossbill and so much more.

 

As with most of our trips, the exact itinerary for the weekend will be crafted closer to the departure date in order to optimize specific birding locations based on the most updated migration information. Possible locations in the area include Massawepie Mire, Tupper Lake, Bloomingdale’s Bog, Saranac Lake, Madawaska, Spring Pond Bog, Fort Edwards Grasslands and more.

The program fee for this trip is $165 (members); $200 (non-members and we’ll credit $35 toward an annual membership).  The fee does not include hotel, transportation, or meals, but does include:

  • Tait’s expertise for full days of birding
  • A jam-packed itinerary with all logistics worked out so you can focus on the main attraction – birds!
  • A Welcome Reception on Friday evening that will include wine, cheese, and other refreshments
  • Bonding over daily recaps and bird counts every evening
  • Optional group dinner on Saturday evening.

Want to join the trip or have questions? Please email Susan for more details including hotel recommendations, payment options, trip cancellation policy, and more.

*Note that registration is limited and our trips often fill up. Your registration is not confirmed until payment is received.

 

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Fall Migration

Cape May, NJ

 Friday, October 3 – Monday, October 6, 2025

Fall migration is the perfect time to visit this first-class birding hot spot on the Jersey Shore. Our Naturalist-in-Residence, Tait Johansson, will maximize your experience by leading you to a variety of habitats across Cape May in search of migrating raptors, migratory and resident passerines and waterbirds. On this trip, we can expect to encounter over a hundred different bird species and explore a range of habitat locations.

This trip is timed to coincide with peak migration for some raptors (including Peregrine, American Kestrel, Osprey and more), and many, many species of landbirds are possible including 15+ different warblers and a big, spectacular flock of thousands of Tree Swallows is likely. Other species include interesting waterbirds such as: Black Scoter, Caspian Tern, Parasitic Jaeger, and many others.

The exact itinerary for the weekend will be crafted closer to the departure date in order to optimize specific birding locations based on the most updated migration information. Possible locations include Cape May Point, Higbee Beach, Cox Hall Creek Wildlife Management area, the Hawkwatch platform in West Cape May, South Cape May Meadows, and/or several others.

The program fee for this trip is $165 (members); $200 (non-members and we’ll credit $35 toward an annual membership). The fee does not include hotel, transportation, or meals, but does include:

  • Tait’s expertise for full days of birding
  • A jam-packed itinerary with all logistics worked out so you can focus on the main attraction – birds!
  • A Welcome Reception on Friday evening that will include wine, cheese, and other refreshments
  • Bonding over daily recaps and bird counts every evening
  • Optional group dinner on Saturday evening.

Want to join the trip or have questions? Please email Susan for more details including hotel recommendations, payment options, trip cancellation policy, and more.

*Note that registration is limited and our trips often fill up. Your registration is not confirmed until payment is received.

 

Winter Birding

Cape Ann & Newburyport, MA

WINTER 2026 DATES COMING SOON

The coast of northeast Massachusetts is the winter home to a spectacular array of seabirds. Our masterful naturalist, Tait Johansson, will guide this special trip around the region in search of such stunners as Harlequin Duck, King Eider, Barrow’s Goldeneye, Red-necked Grebe, Rough-legged Hawk, Iceland and Glaucous Gulls, Purple Sandpiper, Black Guillemot, Black-legged Kittiwake, Razorbill, Snowy Owl and so much more.

The exact itinerary for the weekend will be crafted closer to the departure date in order to optimize specific birding locations based on the most updated migration information. Possible locations in the area include Salisbury Beach State Park Reservation, Jodrey State Fish Pier, Eastern Point, and Bass Rocks in Gloucester; Granite Pier, Andrews Point, and Halibut Point State Park in Rockport; the Plum Island section of Parker River National Wildlife Refuge, Plumbush Marshes, Newbury; and some of the New Hampshire coast.

The program fee for this trip is $165 (members); $200 (non-members and we’ll credit $35 toward an annual membership). The fee does not include hotel, transportation, or meals, but does include:

  • Tait’s expertise for full days of birding
  • A jam-packed itinerary with all logistics worked out so you can focus on the main attraction – birds!
  • A Welcome Reception on Friday evening that will include wine, cheese, and other refreshments
  • Bonding over daily recaps and bird counts every evening
  • Optional group dinner on Saturday evening.

Want to join the trip or have questions? Please email Susan for more details including hotel recommendations, payment options, trip cancellation policy, and more.

*Note that registration is limited and our trips often fill up. Your registration is not confirmed until payment is received.

 

International Birding

Ecuador | Birding the Chocó-Andes Region

Keel-billed Toucan

Tuesday, February 10 – Thursday, February 19, 2026

Bedford Audubon is once again partnering with Holbrook Travel to embark another international excursion guided by our own John Hannan. Our next stop: the Chocó-Andes region of Ecuador! An extraordinary abundance of bird life inhabits the forests of northwestern Ecuador. Amid cloud forest, rainforest, páramo, and the eastern and western slopes of the Andes Mountains, you’ll seek out as many of the country’s 1,640-plus species as possible with assistance from your expert guide on this 10-day adventure. In particular, much of the avifauna you’ll encounter is endemic to the Chocó region, while other species are more easily found here than any place else.

  • Explore the Chocó ecoregion across a variety of protected areas, including Yanacocha Biological Reserve, Alambi Cloud Forest Reserve, Milpe Bird Sanctuary, Antisana Ecological Reserve, and others.
  • Visit the famed Refugio Paz de las Aves, known as a haven for antpittas and Andean Cocks-of-the-rock.
  • Take in Yanacocha Biological Reserve, a protected area established to safeguard the critically endangered and endemic Black-breasted Puffleg, the official emblematic bird of Quito.
  • Bird the Mashpi-Amagusa Reserve for target species like the Rose-faced Parrot, Orange-breasted Fruiteater, Chocó Vireo, Moss-backed Tanager, and Indigo Flowerpiercer.

The fee is $3575 per person in double occupany (based on 10 participants); Land cost only. Does not include round-trip airfare to and from destination. Single room supplement is $425.

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