Morocco March 31st - April 9th
Faced with a glut of free time I had to use up, and not having done a foreign birding trip with the extended clan Foley in some time, I went looking around for an impromptu birding destination on short notice. I wasn't massively concerned with ticks or lifers...just looking for a destination with an abundance of good birds. Turkey was the cheapest destination, but the wrong time of year. Israel was looking OK...but it was Passover and so all car rental and accomodation options were excessively expensive. Cyprus, for whatever reason, just wasn't providing the flight connections that were of any use (really weird considering I had previously managed to book Cyprus at this time of year without any weird flight connection issues.) Morocco came up as the best option price and logistics wise, and there was a handful of species we had missed out on when there 15 years ago, so seeing them would be a nice bonus. Not being one of those mad Western Pal listers, heading halfway south to t