My wife's cousin runs courses on photography.
I keep meaning to go to one but I am always either away with work out out of the country!
He does them specific to things you are interested in.
Recently he has been doing Birds of Prey. He hires a load of cool birds of prey and you and 19 other bods go along and get tuition, tips and tricks using your own camera on how best to take the best images.
You start on the owls (slowest to fly and easiest to shoot) then move onto the falcons and eagles!
Top bloke, GREAT photographer. (Based in the West Midlands)
Check out his images of "Raptors" on his website.
http://www.sublime-images.co.uk/gallery_294176.html
He also runs portrait, "big cats" and landscape trips.
Let me know if you are interested and I can give you his details.
I WILL be going on the next BoP trip!!!