Benacre dip

On Wednesday 3rd December, leaving work early I drove straight down to Covehithe, A Dunnock near Benacre Broad. I had to walk through the weedy field, as cliff erosion meant the well worn path was on the very edge of the cliffs. As I walked to the srea, dog walkers had just gone through, not a good omen. I checked the area both the beach, cliffs and cliff face right up to the pillbox in the sea, no sign of the Twite, one Robin was on territory by weeds in the area where they had been seen. Back at the Broad, loads of 300+ Teal and 200+ Wigeon plus 2 male Pintail and finally an immature female Marsh Harrier quartered the reeds at the back. Disappointing, especially as they had seen 40 minutes before (at 2pm) I had arrived at 2.40pm.