Join TrailWise Guides on your own private tour to learn about native birds and animals of Colorado. Visit local hotspots with your naturalist guide. View wildlife and birds up-close through powerful telescopes and binoculars to see live action.

Eagle County is a great place for birding. With elevations between 6000 ft. to 14,000 ft, the landscape is highly variable and diverse with many distinct habitats.

Our typical outings include visits to aspen groves, shrub communities, streamside cottonwoods and thickets, sub alpine forest, pinyon and juniper woodlands, prairie, meadow, cat tail marsh, river, and sloughs.

Our birding tours are appropriate for all levels of birders. Touring with an experienced guide is perfect for novices to learn new skills, and great for experts who want to see and learn more while taking their experience to a new level. Give us a list of species that you would like to see, and we’ll go find them.

These tours are also great for photographers who are interested in birds, mammals, and landscapes.

Touring across Eagle, Lake and Chaffee Counties in our comfortable AWD vehicles, each site offers viewing from just outside the vehicle. Add short walks into various habitats for your enjoyment. We focus on your interests and incorporate geography, geology, and natural history into your tour.

Choose from a Half-day Tour or our “Classic” Field Trip with a picnic lunch. For the morning tour, we pick you up at 8:30 and return you at Noon, so you can go out to lunch or enjoy an afternoon activity. Our Afternoon Tour goes from 1:00 to 4:30, giving you the morning free. The Half-day Tours give you plenty of time for viewing.

Our “Classic” Field Trip is completely flexible timing so we can work it around your schedule. This tour includes a picnic lunch, and we take your lunch order, so everyone gets the type of sandwich, wrap, or salad that they prefer. We typically pick up at 8am, so the timing for lunch is at the midpoint of our outing. This trip enables us to make a day of it and tour more of the countryside.

Our private guided Birding Tours are easy for you to plan. We pick you up at the door of your hotel or residence, transport you to many good viewing sites, and provide you with use of binoculars and spotting scope. Your guide will focus on your interests, and you will get many good views of wildlife.

Professional quality gear; energy efficient transportation from your location; lunch or snack; and your own expert guide.

Trailwise guides gladly accepts Visa, Mastercard and Amex. Participants are responsible for full payment of tour if canceled within 48 hours of reservation.