Your Guide

Your guide will be Andy Stoddart. Andy has been birdwatching avidly for over 35 years at home and abroad and is a highly proficient and experienced birder.

Resident in Norfolk for over 20 years, he lives in Holt and is therefore ideally located for birdwatching throughout north Norfolk. Andy is a committed local ‘patch worker’ 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 also travelled extensively throughout the UK and abroad, birdwatching in the United States (Texas, Nebraska, Colorado and Wyoming), Canada (Manitoba), Senegal, Morocco, Ireland, Spain, France, Holland, Germany, Denmark, Poland, Finland, Norway, Italy, Greece, Cyprus, the United Arab Emirates, Kazakhstan, Nepal, Thailand, South Korea and Japan.

He has a proven track record in the field and has found many rare birds in Norfolk and elsewhere in the UK, including England’s first Masked Shrike. He served for nearly ten years on the national ‘British Birds’ Rarities Committee and is currently a member of the Norfolk Records Committee. He can also often be heard as the voice of Birdline East Anglia.

He is also Editor of the annual Norfolk Bird Report, author of the acclaimed ‘The Birds of Blakeney Point’ and a regular contributor of identification notes and articles to ‘British Birds’, ‘Birding World’ and ‘Birdwatch’. He is currently writing an environmental history of North America’s Great Plains.