Living off memories - TRIP INDEX 2024>1974

The following lists and gives links to the relevant blogs of all the foreign birding and some family trips that I have been fortunate enough to have done. It is ordered by year with the most recent first. Blogs of the older trips use scanned slides, some having degraded badly with age, or digitised prints of varying quality. Some use photos taken by those I was with. These are usually easy to tell as they are significantly better than mine (and in most cases acknowledged). Many of the older blogs are based on my unreliable memories as my notes were very lacking in detail, other than the birds seen, something I now greatly regret. The blogs were initially done to find a 'home' for boxes of old slides which I had not looked at for years, my dad giving me his slide scanner providing the necessary impetus to digitise them. Doing these blogs has brought back many very happy memories, and a few sad ones. I’ve been very fortunate to have various like-minded friends whom I have been able to travel with. Sadly several are no longer with us.

Kagu, New Caledonia August 1998 (digitised print originally taken with an instamatic).  One of my all-time top five birds. Giant Pitta (1987), displaying Wilson's Bird of Paradise (1993), displaying Western Parotia (2013), and Royal Penguins (2023) are the others.

2024:   SOUTHERN ARGENTINA (November) starts here

            ALASKA (June) starts here

            CYPRUS (March) starts here

            PANAMA (February) starts here

2023:   NEW ZEALAND and BIRDING DOWN UNDER Cruise (December) starts here  

            FRANCE Boulogne (June) included here

            INDIA South and Andamans (January/February) starts here

           

2022:  FRANCE Somme (September) here

           BRAZIL SW Amazonia (May/June) starts here                

           COSTA RICA (April/May) starts here

2020:  SPAIN Fuerteventua (February) starts here

           MYANMAR (January) starts here

2019:   FRANCE Somme (September) here

            (BALI and) BORNEO (August) starts here
            NORWAY (and FINLAND) (March) starts here

            SRI LANKA (January/February) starts here

2018:  MADAGASCAR (October) here

           SPAIN Mallorca (September) here
           NORTHERN PERU (June/July) starts here

           FRANCE Somme (May) here
           ECUADOR (February) starts here

2017:  BOLIVIA (November) starts here

           NORTHERN GREECE (October) here
           FRANCE Somme (September) here
           MONGOLIA (May) starts here
           GUYANA (March/April) starts here
           TRINIDAD and TOBAGO (March) here

           JAMIACA (February) here

2016:  GHANA (October/November) starts here

           FRANCE Somme (September) here

           JAPAN (June/July) starts here
           NORWAY & FINLAND (May/June) starts here
           MEXICO (February/March) starts here
           CALIFORNIA (January) starts here

2015:  BRAZIL (September/October) starts here

           FRANCE Somme (August/September) here

           INDONESIA Lesser Sundas (August) starts here
           ARIZONA (April/May) starts here
           ECUADOR (January/February) starts here
          

2014: FRANCE Brittany (September) here

          COLOMBIA (July/August) starts here

          SPAIN Extremadura (April) starts here        

2013: FRANCE Normandie (September) here

          INDONESIA West Papua (August) starts here

          CORSICA (May) starts here

2012: FRANCE Somme (September) here

          MALAYSIA Sarawak & Sabah (July/August) starts here

          TURKEY (June) starts here

          

2011: TAIWAN (April/May) starts here

          ETHIOPIA (February) starts here

2010: UGANDA (June) starts here

          CHINA Shanghai, Wuishan, Yangxian & Pingtai (May/June) starts here

2009: VIETNAM Cat Tien & Da Lat (April) starts here

2008: NAMIBIA (July/August) starts here
          PHILIPPINES (April) starts here

2007: INDIA Eaglenest (March/April) here     

          

2006: PAPUA NEW GUINEA (July/August) starts here

2005: INDONESIA Sumatra & West Java (June/July) starts here

          TEXAS (March/April) here  

2004:  PAPUA NEW GUINEA (June) starts here

           CUBA Western (April) here
          

2003:  CAMEROON (April) here

           JAPAN (January) starts here

2002:  CHILE (April) here

2001:  GAMBIA (October/November) here

           PUERTO RICO & DOMINION REPUBLIC (April) starts here

2000:  CHINA Qinghai (June/July) starts here

           CYPRUS (April) to do

           

1999:  ECUADOR (August/September)
           http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1999_09_01_archive.html

1998:  AUSTRALIA and NEW CALEDONIA (July/August)

           http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1998_08_01_archive.html        

1997:  VIETNAM (March/April) 

          https://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.com/1997/04/ 

1996: NEW ZEALAND (August)   

          http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1996_08_01_archive.html

          PHILIPPINES (April)

          http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1996_04_01_archive.html

1995: MADAGASCAR (August)
          http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1995_08_01_archive.html

1993: INDONESIA Irian Jaya (August)

          http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1993_08_01_archive.html

1992:  INDONESIA Sulawesi and Halmahera (August)

          http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1992_08_01_archive.html

1991: SOUTH AFRICA (August)
          http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1991_08_01_archive.html

1990: ARGENTINA (August)
          http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1990_08_01_archive.html

1989: ICELAND (June)               

          https://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.com/1989/06/
1988: BRAZIL (July/August)
          http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1988_07_01_archive.html
          http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1988_08_01_archive.html

          THAILAND Peninsular (March/April)
          http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1988_04_01_archive.html 

1987: MALAYSIA Sabah and Peninsular (July/August) 
          http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1987_08_01_archive.html

1986: ECUADOR and VENEZUELA July/August 1986

           http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1986_08_01_archive.html

           AUSTRALIA Queensland and Northern Territory (March/April)
           http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1986_03_01_archive.html
           http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1986_04_01_archive.html

1985: COSTA RICA and PANAMA (July/August)
           http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1985_08_01_archive.html

1984: BOTSWANA (December 1984-January 1985) 

          http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1984_12_01_archive.html

          http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1985_01_01_archive.html  

          PERU (July/August)

          http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1984_08_01_archive.html

1983: KENYA (July/August)

          http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1983_08_01_archive.html

1982: VENEZUELA (December 1982-February 1983)

          http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1983_01_01_archive.html

          http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1983_02_01_archive.html

          NEPAL (March/June)
          Jomson Trek
          http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1982_03_01_archive.html
          Everest Trek
          http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1982_04_01_archive.html
          Langtang Trek
          http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1982_05_01_archive.html
          INDIA (June/July)
          Ladakh
          http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1982_06_01_archive.html
          Kashmir
          http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1982_07_01_archive.html
          THAILAND (February)
          http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1982_02_01_archive.html

          MALAYSIA Peninsular (January/February)

          http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1982_01_01_archive.html

1981: AUSTRIA (July)

          https://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.com/1981/07/

1980: THAILAND (December 1980-January 1981)

          http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1980_12_01_archive.html

          http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1981_01_01_archive.html

          CANADA (May)

          http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1980_05_01_archive.html

1979: NEPAL (November 1979-January 1980)

          http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1979_11_01_archive.html
          http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1979_12_01_archive.html

          http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1980_01_01_archive.html  

          CANARIES (June/July)

          http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1979_07_01_archive.html 

          ISRAEL (March/April)

          http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1979_04_01_archive.html

1978: THAILAND (December 1978-January 1979)
          http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1978_12_01_archive.html
          http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1979_01_01_archive.html

1977: KENYA (December 1977-January 1978)

          http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1977_12_01_archive.html

          http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1978_0_01_archive.html

          MOROCCO (April)
          http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.co.uk/1977_04_01_archive.html

1975: CARMARGUE (May) included here

1974: MAJORCA (October) brief mention here