Custom Half-Day Tour
Private Half-Day Tour in Colorado
Highlights: Nature Hike / Naturalist Guide / Wildlife Viewing / Photography / Curated Experience
Design your ideal half-day in nature with a fully customized experience that can include photography, birdwatching, hiking, and wildlife viewing. We’ll tailor the outing to your goals, from seeking specific birds to exploring scenic trails and wildlife-rich habitats. It’s a personalized, immersive adventure built entirely around your curiosity and interests.
Tour Features
Price per Group:
$350
What to Expect on Custom Half-Day Tour
Your custom half-day tour is a five-hour nature experience designed entirely around your interests, pace, and curiosity. Each outing is crafted to showcase a cross-section of Colorado’s most compelling habitats—riparian corridors, foothills shrubland, ponderosa forest, prairie edges, or rich wetland pockets—so you can make the most of bird and wildlife diversity in a single morning. Whether you’re hoping to track down specific species, enjoy a relaxed naturalist walk, or explore beautiful landscapes, the day’s plan is shaped around what matters most to you.
Hiking intensity is completely flexible. We can stay close to the vehicle and make short, easy walks for frequent stops, or venture farther for guests who enjoy covering more ground—your comfort and energy level always come first. Throughout the tour, you’ll learn how to spot and identify birds, interpret habitat, and connect with the landscape in a meaningful way.
Photographers can expect a slower, more intentional rhythm. When we find a cooperative subject, we take the time needed to observe behavior, work angles, and capture the best possible images. Whether you’re building your life list, honing your nature photography, or simply enjoying quiet moments outdoors, your custom half-day tour offers a tailored, immersive experience along Colorado’s Front Range.
Tour Itinerary & Details
Meeting Point
Hotel pickup and drop off available within most Denver and Boulder metro locations. If outside of pickup radius, contact us to arrange convenient meeting location.
What’s Included
Private door to door transportation, professional guide, snacks, water, binoculars, spotting scope, reservations and fees.
Nature & Wildlife On This Tour
Birds: Peregrine Falcon, American Kestrel, Bald Eagle, Red-tailed Hawk, Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay, White-throated Swift, Mountain Bluebird, American Dipper, Canyon Wren, Broad-tailed Hummingbird
Mammals: Mule Deer, Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep, Moose, Yellow-bellied Marmot, Red Squirrel, Abert’s Squirrel, Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel, Coyote
Reptiles & Amphibians: Western Terrestrial Garter Snake, Prairie Rattlesnake, Bullsnake
Full-Day Custom Tour Reviews
RYAN GIVES HIS ALL!! Our 3-day tour with Ryan was beyond good! It was as good as it gets! We are fairly seasoned amateur birders and we contacted Ryan with a specific list of hard-to-find birds we’d been hoping to see for some years. Ryan planned out a trip (May 10, 11 and 12, 2024) that accommodated all of our birding needs in an effective and efficient manner. Ryan is an excellent tour organizer; he was prepared for all occasions – including outfitting us with crampons and poles for the mountain climbs in snow at Loveland Pass, and packing lunch for us every day. He was also very flexible when we needed a Plan B to look elsewhere for a target bird. Ryan is the complete birding guide. He has all of the exceptional skills one would expect from an expert birder – his birding by ear talent is remarkable. And, he also knew the species of every tree, plant and wildflower that we came across. His knowledge of the geology, natural and social history of Colorado is equally impressive. It’s not for nothing that he holds a PhD in natural sciences! Ryan is a guide, an educator, a conversationalist as well as a very good listener – all the qualities one would want from a guide while driving to remote and spectacularly scenic places all over Colorado. And, above all, his good humor, upbeat and attentive way of being made our trip such a pleasure. Don’t miss your chance to take a tour with him!
My husband has used a wide variety of bird guides on 5 continents during nearly 40 years of birding, and Ryan was the best of the best. His guiding expertise, avian knowledge, and technical and photographic skills were exceptional. In addition, he is a great conversationalist. My husband has a moderate visual impairment and Ryan was incredibly accommodating and patiently helped him to find every bird. If you have the opportunity to bird with Ryan, grab it.
I contacted Ryan about a custom birding trip. He was responsive and friendly in all communication. We chatted on the phone to strategize and collaborate on a gameplan for the day. Ryan was realistic about what we could see and came up with a plan that gave us the best chance to see the birds that were possible. Not only did we end up seeing essentially every bird we targeted, Ryan was a real joy to be around. He thought through all the details of the trip, had a bunch of extra gear that helped us with the elements, brought a stellar lunch, and seemed as excited as I was to see the birds we were searching for. I highly recommend Birding Man if you’re looking for a thrilling adventure and good company.
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