Les Tilleuls Bed and Breakfast holiday accommodation is located in the Lot department of the Midi-Pyrenees region of southwest France. Also traditionally known as the Quercy region we are located south of Sarlat and Rocamadour and north of Cahors. Our Bed and Breakfast Accommodation is in easy reach of the Dordogne valley. We offer short break holidays, long weekend holidays so that you can get a taster of what the midi-pyrenees SW France area has to offer. Sarlat, Cahors and Rocamadour are only three of numerous lovely villages and towns. French breaks in our BandB offers such things as trail riding, fishing, canoeing or cycling. Or you can wander around any number of lovely chateaux or traditional french food markets. Les Tilleuls bed and Breakfast accommodation is your perfect base.
Birdwatching areas within an hours drive of the Les Tilleuls bed and breakfast accommodation.
Spring 2008 - Middle spotted woodpecker nesting in our cherry tree click to see photos.
Hamlet of Vidille and surrounding area -
Just outside your front door at Les Tilleuls. You can take your camera and binoculars and have a walk around the wonderful countryside surrounding your Bed and Breakfast. The following is a list of 52 bird species that have been seen in the garden, or the surrounding countryside around Les Tilleuls from Sep 2006 through Feb 2008. Year-round residents - Great tit, blue tit, long tailed tit, house sparrow, dunnock, nuthatch, tree creeper, wren, robin, blackbird, song thrush, chaffinch, greenfinch, goldfinch, linnet, cirl bunting, greater spotted woodpecker, green woodpecker, collard dove, magpie, jay, crow, gold crest, starling, tawny owl. In the sky - Buzzard, Honey buzzard (summer), black kite (summer), red kite, short toed eagle, kestrel, sparrowhawk, goshawk, hen harrier, montagu's harrier. Summer visitors - Black redstart, redstart, swallow, hoopoe, pied wagtail, yellow wagtail, grey wagtail, golden oriel, bee-eater. Winter visitors - Siskin, bramble finch, ring ouzel, waxwing. In the fields - Lesser spotted woodpecker, nightingale, hawfinch, grey partridge, red-legged partridge.
Causse de Gramat
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closest to Les
Tilleuls.
A triangle shaped causse lying between
Rocamadour to the north, the river lot to the south and the N20 on the west.
The patches of woodland and scrub merging with meadows makes this area
especially good for birds. Nightjars often nest in the dry scrub areas,
Bonelli’s
warblers call from the oaks, golden orioles are found where there are
poplars, and hobbies can be seen dashing between fields. There are four
species of woodpeckers here – the three British species plus the middle
spotted, other woodland or scrub birds include turtle dove, woodlark, short
toed treecreeper, tree pipit, nightingale, hoopoe, cirlbunting, honey
buzzard plus many more.
Lot Gorges
– 45 minutes from Les Tilleuls. Gorge area where the lot river cuts through limestone, granite and schist rock types. Good area for honey buzzards, sparrowhawks, goshawks, red kite, booted and short-toed eagles, middle spotted and black woodpeckers, Bonelli’s and melodious warblers and whinchats.St. Nicolas de la Grave Réservoir –
55 minutes from Les Tilleuls. An artificial lake in the Garonne Valley, noted for it’s birds. There is a lake side track and a hide which gives good vantage points for birdwatching. Very good in the winter for grebes (mainly great crested), redshank, ducks including gadwall, shoveler, teal, pochard (including red crested pochards), tufted and ferruginous. At passage periods there are good numbers of waders such as wood sandpiper, golden plover, black-tailed godwit, spotted redshank and greenshank, black terns and the occasional osprey. Breeding season brings common terns purple herons and night herons, black kites are generally common in this area.
Gresigne Forest
– 50 minutes from Les Tilleuls. An excellent area for breeding woodland and scrub birds, both in diversity and quantity. Birds of prey are common here and include honey buzzard, common buzzard, goshawk, short-toed and booted eagles, hen harriers, sparrowhawk, hobby, and both red and black kites. A couple of good
viewpoints
to watch raptors is Montoulieu, the highest point in the forest, just to the
north of the village of Puycelci and from the parapet of the Lafage chateau,
in the northeast of the forest. Scops and tawny owls are here and eagle
owls have been released on the northern edge of the forest. In the breeding
season you will also see hawfinches, wood and Bonelli’s warblers, five
species of woodpeckers, marsh tit, red-backed shrike, nightjars, Dartford
and subalpine warblers, firecrests and nightingales.
Dordogne Valley
– 40 minutes from Les Tilleuls. On and around the limestone cliffs that stand over the Dordogne river you will see nesting crag and house martins, kestrels, peregrines, and alpine swifts, with black redstarts, serins, firecrests, kingfishers and hobby nearby. The Belvedere de Copeyre usually provides good views of the birds. Northeast of Argentat is an area described as the ‘Gorges de la Dordogne”, it is now mainly a series of reservoirs, but has retained its importance for birds, thanks to the wilderness of the surrounding countryside. It is particularly good for breeding raptors, and acts as a migratory corridor, so there is usually always something to see.
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