Breydon is very strongly tidal, with a huge expanse of (largely distant and hazy) mud at low tide, and very little mud on a big high tide, when the waders get pushed up onto the saltings in front of the hide. The hide itself is pretty well situated for watching the latter state but (assuming it's not changed recently) it's a spectacularly unpleasant place to be, since it's well used by dossers and druggies etc and generally stinks to high heaven. You access it along the estuary wall from the Asda carpark, but I think they may have put some parking restrictions here recently? Worth checking, anyway. You can also view from the seawall near the hide, or further round the north wall, but without the same height advantage.
Another place to view from is the south wall, accessed from the carpark near Broadland Rugby club (think this is officially Herbert Barnes Riverside Park, or somesuch). This can be good either side of high tide, when the mud flats are only exposed at the eastern end of the estuary (i.e. right in front of you) and birds are concentrated in the area.
All this is general to the site, since I don't know anything about the Goldie's habits beyond what's on the pager.
