Hoopoe along Sizewell beach

After missing several Hoopoes recently at North Walsham, Thorpe cum Haddiscoe, Stubbs Wood, Gunton and realising I would be too late to see it at Thorpeness yesterday. I was very keen on Sunday 17th November, to see the Hoopoe at Sizewell. So once I heard it was still at Sizewell, I drove there, but there was no free parking available by Sizewell village so I tried to another spot I knew where there were a couple of spaces and I took the footpath to the beach, by the caravan park I heard a Stonechat calling 'chack chack.' and wandered down only to be greeted by the news that the bird was showing well 5 minutes earlier but a dog walker had thrown a ball at the bird (!!!) and the bird had flown north, I walked north with no luck and no sooner had that happened then we heard the bird had been seen in flight again in the same original spot by the same lady I had just been talking to. Matthew D, strolled along and as soon as I saw him I saw the excellent Hoopoe fly up near us, wonderful butterfly like flight and then right over out heads before it flew down the beach and appeared to fly up into the small trees on the cliff. We walked down and again we saw the Hoopoe fly up and again into the cliff trees. Matthew saw it fly again. We were then joined by John G. and photographer. I then walked up to the cliff top where we heard the bird had been sighted ten minutes walk away I walked south along the cliff top path skirting Sizewell hall grounds, we saw Rob Win and Julie and then we heard the bird had been sighted back in its original spot so we headed back again. The bird was then seen flying around the cliff and then a little further north into scrub and gorse. Rob, Julie & Matthew all left. Fortunately for them they didn't witness the behaviour of 3 specific individuals who were constantly hassling the bird getting far too close and causing the bird to fly frequently. Which was very disappointing to see, to say the least. This also put paid to me getting really good photos so these are really OK shots only. When I got to the beach, a younger birder, perhaps influenced by this behaviour, was edging far too close to the bird, that was sighted feeding along the edge of the gorse areas. I told him to stop and fortunately he did and the others were temporarily reigned in too, so now finally with a little common sense, we managed to view this bird at mid range for some twenty minutes. The bird was constantly feeding (but always in the shadows) until a family walked towards it (not deliberately), it stopped feeding then raised its crest and then flew north and into some bushes. The bird was seen in flight a couple of times and I last saw it in a bush, it was the other side of the bush and I didn't want to disturb it, I was close to it and I was waiting and hoping to see if it would drop down onto the path and feed. But, inevitably other birders walking south towards the bush, hadn't seen it perched in the bush their side & had inadvertently flushed it and it then flew over the cliff top. A female Stonechat was seen too. The sun was getting quite low and it was my time to leave, having been there around 3 hours.