Captivating Wildlife
Stunning Landscapes
and much, much more.

News

Open, Sunday 27th June 2010.
Time, 1pm to 5.30pm.
Place, Browside, Boldron, Barnard Castle, Co. Durham, DL12 9RQ.
Price, £2.50 adults children free.
Home made teas available, Plant Stall, Raffle, Teddy Bear Hunt, Games, Bean Bag Ladder, Skittles.
Wildlife Photographic Exhibition by Wildwatch Tours Ltd and it's clients.
Photographs will be for sale to raise funds.

Wildwatch Tours Ltd is very please to be able to support with the raising of funds to help The National Gardens Scheme Charitable Trust.
Macmillan Cancer Support.
Marie Curie Cancer Care.

I'm please to anounce that on the day we all managed to raise £2212.00 many thanks to all helpers and volentiers and the kind hospitality of Mr & Mrs Kearton who opened there garden up.

Tigers and Monuments March 2010.

Another very successful trip with an excellent team and company.
16 clients plus Susie set off to India on 19^th March one day before the airline strike started  all went well with no problems with BA at all.
On arriving time was spent in Delhi sightseeing before flying onto Nagpur and Transferred to Pench National Park. It wasn’t long into the next day before all of my clients found there first Tiger it’s such a relief to find the first one.
And things just got better as time went on, moving to Kanha National Park and eventually to Bandhavgarh National Park. In the three national parks we found some 20 individual Tigers including first year cubs.
A few of our clients were lucky enough to have a Leopard walk leisurely in front of their vehicle what an experience; we found two over the trip.
4 Jungle Cats were also seen, two other excellent sighting were Sloth Bear and numerous Dhole (Wild Dogs). Well over a 100 species of birds were also seen.
Eventually we went to Agra to visit the Taj Mahal one morning and evening to photograph at sunrise and sunset. Onward back to Delhi for some more monuments and shopping before flying back to the UK.

Tanzania December 2009.

Other than my unfortunate problem listed below, we all had a great time in Tanzania.
The weather was generally good for us mainly sunshine with the occasional shower.
We found a varied selection of birds and all the big game, including Rhino, Elephant, Buffalo, Leopard, Lion and Cheetah of which we had excellent views.
Our driver guides both Bill and Alex looked after us extremely well and seemed to know where to find our wildlife.

Holiday insurance.

Dear All,
Lessons learnt from my unfortunate experience of a heart attack on my recent trip to Tanzania December 2009.
It is advisable to check your holiday insurance cover.
Please make sure that you have advised your insurance company of any prior medical conditions.
Please carry with you your insurance policy details and your doctor’s telephone number.
Making sure that it has adequate cover for all circumstances, these include flying doctor services, evacuation from ships if on the Arctic and Antarctic tours all medical expenses including hospitals.
A credit card, to cover any immediate payments and any repatriation costs.
Fortunately for me I had adequate cover.
I was first flown to Arusha hospital and then onto a Nairobi hospital, I found both to be excellent hospitals, the cleanleness was second to none, all the nursers and doctors were some of the most caring I have ever met.
Susan had to stay at the Silver Springs Hotel in Nairobi this was opposite to the hospital, I also had to have a 3 day rest bite their before flying home. The staff couldn't do enough for both Susan and I, they sent me flowers to me from the hotel and even two of the staff came to visit and bought flowers and a card, this I found most humbleing for total strangers to visit me saying prayers and well wishes for me from them.
I would like to take this oppourtunity to thank all for there help and best wishes to both the hospitals and the hotel. 
If you have any questions please contact me and I will try to help.

Peter Jones.

We are considering running trips to the Gabon in 2011 to see the lowland Gorilla's and big game like Elephants and Hippopotamus's that live along the sea shore. Anyone with an interest in this trip please let me know ASAP. Tel. 01623 411215.

Sorry to say that Skokholm Island is now closed for the foreseeable future, please now refer to Skomer Island.

We had a successful workshop in Northumberland and Scotland. On our way we stopped at Sunderland Airshow were we were able to photograph the Red Arrows and Vulcan Bomber along with many other interesting old and new planes. Continuing up to the Farne Island and photographed Puffins, Gulls and Guillemots etc, carrying onto Bass Rock, just to photograph Gannets so many to choose from. Then we went into Scotland and did some landscape photography and Red Kites, the weather was extreamly kind to us were as most other places in the country had heavy rain storms.

Now back from another sussessful trip to Spitsbergen. On leaving Longyearban our expedition leader decided to go south first due to heavy ice in the north, we got as far as Barentsoya along the east coast, before being beaton by heavy ice and had to retreat south and up the west coast, we managed to get as far north as 80 degree's before again being beaton by heavy ice. We spent 14 nights at sea, the day's were long, maily with 24 hours of sunshine but we did also experience a few grey days with snow storms which made photography interesting when photographing Polar Bears.
In all, we found 19 Polars bears, 2 large hallouts of Walrus, also Bearded Seals, Ringed Seal, Harp Seal, Minke Whales, Arctic Fox family and Reindeer.
Birds to name a few, all Skua's, Sabines Gull, Grey Phalarope's, Black Guillemot, Brunnich's Guillemot, Little Auk, Snow Buntings, Red-throated Divers, Ivory Gulls.
We were also fortune enough to witness one Polar Bear attempting to catch a young Walrus from it's mother but he gave up in the end. And another Polar Bear waiting near to a seal ice hole, and eventully to run dive at the seal and pulled the seal from it's breather hole and kill the seal, not very nice but it's nature, this is an extreamly rare siteing.

Open, Sunday 28th June 2009.
Time, 1pm to 5.30pm.
Place, Browside, Boldron, Barnard Castle, Co. Durham, DL12 9RQ.
Price, £2.50 adults children free.
Home made teas available, Plant Stall, Raffle, Teddy Bear Hunt, Games, Bean Bag Ladder, Skittles.
Wildlife Photographic Exhibition by Wildwatch Tours Ltd and it's clients.
Photographs will be for sale to raise funds.

Wildwatch Tours Ltd is very please to be able to support with the raising of funds to help The National Gardens Scheme Charitable Trust.
Macmillan Cancer Support.
Marie Curie Cancer Care.

Total money raised was just over £3000.

An exhibition of photographs taken on a Wildwatch Tours holiday, will be held at the Quorn Village Hall. Quorn. Leics. On Saturday 9th May 2009 from 10.30 to 4.30, in the aid of the Leicester and Rutland Wildlife Trust. Prints will be on sale and painting by Maggie Morland will also be for sale.
For more information contact Peter on 01623 411215 or email wildwatch@btinternet.com

We all raised the grand sum of £601.00 for the LRWT, many thanks to all who helped and took part.

I'm please to say that some of Wildwatch clients have a good success rate at this years (2009) MIDPHOT exhibition, ie. best mammal print of the exhibition to Mrs Margaret Tabner, John Bebbington medal to Helen Ashbourne, certificates to Margaret Tabner, Helen Ashbourne and Susan Wilson, plus a selection of acceptances to the above and Robert Bates.

Congratulations to all, see you next time, Peter.

Just back from a fantastic tour of India, we found 16 individual Tigers in Pench, Kanha or Bandhavgarh Tiger reserves. Plus a mother and her two Sloth Bear cubs. And a small group of Wild Dogs.
We also visited the Agra Bear rescue Sanctuary which dedicate them selves to save Sloth Bears which have been taken for the cruel illegal practices of Dancing Bears.
I'm please to say on this occasion Wildwatch Tours and it's clients donated some 250 USD to help to rescue these Bears from the cruel sport of dancing.

If you would like more information or would like to make a donation please either contact Peter at Wildwatch Tours Ltd or go to Wildlife SOS direct via my links.

Each year we run a number of weekend Wild to the Wall events in the UK.  These are intensive courses that aim to lift both your photography and your digital printing skills to a higher level.  Alongside our 2009/10 UK programme and new for 2010, we will be hosting a week-long course for both beginners and seasoned photographers in Finland. To get a flavour of what will be on offer, please see the Finland Wildwatch Brochure (pdf).  For more details, venues and dates, please visit From the Wild to the Wall.

Skokholm Island will now be closed for refurbishment until spring 2010.
Anyone interested in holding a place for then please contact Wildwatch Tours.

This website has undergone a major reconstruction in order to bring you better and more up-to-date information on the tours available.  We hope that you like the result.

You can now view our gallery of images by category or destination.

If you do find something not working or wish to make a suggestion, please feel free to contact us.