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Freako

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Not sure where to post this thread, but do any of you guys have experience of two way windows for bird hides? I am looking for some for my bird hide, not sure if it not sure if it needs to be glass or acrylic with a film to it.

Any help would be much appreciated.
 
My local nature reserve uses acrylic windows,they are useless for shooting through.Birds get used to people & open windows are fine.
 
My local nature reserve uses acrylic windows,they are useless for shooting through.Birds get used to people & open windows are fine.

Thanks for your reply Steve, I wasn't expecting to shoot through it but have a hole for the lens in the centre.
 
I used neutral density perspex, had birds sitting just a few inches away and they never saw me, you just have to make sure no light gets in the hide from anywhere else.
 
Beware of having a filter on your lens. I set up a camcorder on a tripod and a short distance from a bird-feeder outside a hide, from where I watched the action. Many of the birds would approach the feeder, and fly away just before landing. I guessed that they were catching their reflections in the filter on the camcorder, so I removed it, and this made a big difference. Birds would then approach and land on the feeder, as they had been doing before I mounted my camcorder close to them. (The typically convex form of the camcorder's lens makes any reflected image much smaller and darker than one from a plain, possibly uncoated filter - as I expect mine was, being a polarising filter, aimed at enhancing the colours in their feathers.)
 
Beware of having a filter on your lens. I set up a camcorder on a tripod and a short distance from a bird-feeder outside a hide, from where I watched the action. Many of the birds would approach the feeder, and fly away just before landing. I guessed that they were catching their reflections in the filter on the camcorder, so I removed it, and this made a big difference. Birds would then approach and land on the feeder, as they had been doing before I mounted my camcorder close to them. (The typically convex form of the camcorder's lens makes any reflected image much smaller and darker than one from a plain, possibly uncoated filter - as I expect mine was, being a polarising filter, aimed at enhancing the colours in their feathers.)

Thanks Malcolm, I never use a filter on my lens anyway.
 
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