Single-Day Excursions Single Day Group Rates: Single Day Excursion Details*: Includes coffee (shade-grown organic, of course) in the morning, lunch (usually a bag lunch), and a snack in the afternoon. Free pick up and drop off at your hotel (if applicable), and all transportation throughout the day. Please bring your own scopes and binoculars. Let us know ahead of time if you don't have any. Two Day Excursions We will be camping so dress in warm layers. Free pick up and drop off at your hotel (if applicable), and all transportation throughout the day. Please bring your own scopes and binoculars. Let us know ahead of time if you don't have any. Saturday*: Drive to site, spotting birds along the way (a good time to see horned lark and short-eared owls, meadow larks and mountain bluebirds) Cruise the ponds until we find a lively one (here we could see ruddy ducks, American avocets, wigeons, blue and green-winged teals, yellow-headed blackbirds, common grackles, Barrow’s golden eyes, marbled godwits and a host of other ducks, shorebirds and passerines as well as raptors overhead) Restroom pit stop and hawk watch Cruise the other ponds for new species. Break for lunch. Head to the peregrine falcon nest. Head to campsite. Set up camp and relax. Dinner Call in Owls. Evening debriefing and plans for tomorrow Sunday*: Breakfast and Briefing Grassland Birds and Raptors Day Lunch Visit nesting sites
High overhead due to the cost of gas and food in our area means that running a tour with a single-person-group costs more than we would like to charge. We apologize for the high single person prices and encourage you to read the "ways to get a discount list" on the price of your trip.
Note: We will not charge you the "single person rate" if another birder is signed up for the same day. We will, for pricing purposes, consider you a group.
Single Person Day Trip Base Price (without discounts): $73
WAYS TO GET A DISCOUNT
(all discounts must be discussed with a Mountain Birding rep, prior to departure on birding trips)
1. Bring your own lunch (discount: $5)
2. Meet our guides in the field rather than have them pick you up at a hotel or campground (discount: $4). Note: This discount is not offered for groups.
2 person = $64 per person,
3 person = $59 per person,
4 or more= $55 per person,
Single day excursions go out on Saturdays and/or Sundays.
Pick-up will be 30 minutes prior to sunrise and we will bird until 2pm, or whenever the group has had enough birds for one day. If birds are not showing because of weather, upon group consensus, the trip will end early and a refund will be given. Refunds are pro-rated for the number of hours not used before 2pm.
Two Day Group Rates:
2 person = $151 per person
3 person = $141 per person
4 or more = $133 per person
Two Day Excursion Details: (Offered for groups of two or more only. If you are alone, please call to see if you can get in with a group already going.)
Includes breakfast and coffee (shade-grown organic of course) in the morning, lunches (usually a bag lunches), and a snacks in the afternoon on Saturday and Sunday. A hot dinner including a beverage will be prepared by your guide. Alcoholic refreshments such as beer and wine will also be available. If you have camping gear, you are welcome to bring it. Otherwise, all gear is provided. We do recommend you cring your personal sleeping bag. Some birders don't smell nice when they get into their bags.
Pick-up and briefing
*Please keep in mind that iteneraries are tentative. Presence of birds will ultimately dictate the day's schedule.
