Down to the Brick Dock

On Saturday, after hearing the GND was still at brick Dock, Aldeburth, and getting directions from Jane F, I drove down to Aldeburgh, just outside the main town, I parked by a woodland/ heath area and heard a Coal Tit calling from a Pine tree opposite, after a few minute the Coal Tit popped up briefly. parked at the far end of Linden Road crossed the main road turning left and took the first road down to Brick Dock, a grety tarmaced road with Holm Oaks flanking the left hand side. It led to a slit in the road, to the left the road led to small brick bungalow type building and the right went past Brick Dock house and some other salubrious looking houses, just left opf them further on a field, I went throgh the gate and past a square brick and small 'chapel like building past a black wooden cladded building this led to an estuary with upturned boats. Almsot immediately I saw up to 3 Rock Pipits by the foreshore, one frequently perching on a post and even one of the boats. I scanned the estuary and I could see Wigeon, Redshank, the odd Curlew , 5 Avocet but no sign of the GND or Grey P. Then I could see it far out over to the right hand side of the estuary, a fine Great Northern Diver which spent the next 20 minutes preening itself, after it finished it dived and I didn't pick it up again for another 20 minutes, I was joined by 2 birders and the Great Northern Diver after quite an absence and had resurfaced even further back from the estuary. Where I had initially seen it a gap in the bank way out to the right revealed the estuary hide at Hazlewood Marshes. One birder left and the older one remained with me, I pointed a Knot that had just flown in and settled just right of us by the foreshore. The birder who had been striding along the river bank way out to the right where in the far distance I could see the Martello Tower were some fields, in one field with 2 large pools to the left of them I saw 4 fine White- fronted Geese. I assume this is the Aledburgh Marshes area. As I walked back between the 'chapel' and the brick square in the field on the way back, I spotted a fine Bee Orchid rosette. A great trip to a new location.