Your Guide

Your guide will be Andy Stoddart. Andy has been birdwatching avidly for over 30 years at home and abroad and is a highly proficient and experienced birder.

Resident in Norfolk for over 20 years, he lives in the delightful Georgian town of Holt and is therefore ideally located for birdwatching throughout North Norfolk. Andy is a committed local ‘patch worker’ (particularly on Blakeney Point and in the Glaven Valley), constantly out in the field, and has built up an intimate knowledge of the area and its birds. He has an excellent local reputation and a proven track record in the field.

He has travelled extensively throughout the UK and has also birded in the US (Nebraska and Texas), Canada (Manitoba), Senegal, Morocco, Ireland, Spain, France, Holland, Germany, Denmark, Poland, Finland, Norway, Cyprus, the United Arab Emirates, Kazakhstan, Nepal, Thailand, South Korea and Japan. He is therefore very familiar both with the local avifauna and with scarce and rare migrants from abroad.

Andy served for nearly ten years on the national ‘British Birds’ Rarities Committee and is also a member of the Norfolk Records Panel. He has found and documented many rare birds in Norfolk and elsewhere in the UK.

He has also published a wide range of papers on the status and identification of birds in Norfolk and the UK and is co-author of the acclaimed ‘The Birds of Blakeney Point’.