Best Wader birding hide I have ever seen (1 Viewer)

[Ratal]

http://www.biotope.no/2013/08/stealth-birding-photo-hide-prototyping.html?m=1


This deserves a mention in despatches for absolute brilliance. The photos he gets from mere inches away are jaw dropping.

Would love to have one of these made up some time in the future for a test run. Hat truly doffed for brilliance.

 

[Nutcracker]

Not sure it'd be much fun if the tide came in while you were in it :eek!:

 

[Barred Wobbler]

Not sure it'd be much fun if the tide came in while you were in it :eek!:

As long as there was a nice onshore breeze, all you'd have to do would be to stand up and you woudn't touch ground until you got to the foreshore.

Not good with an offshore wind, mind. You could be there a while.

 

[Phil Andrews]

Does it get Jane T's seal of approval?

 

[pppppvvvv]

I think it's a bit overkill.. just lie down and wait..

e.g. http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/420903/ppuser/87651

That was just with a 70-300mm.. I could not have got better results with any amount of "shell". Plus you are quite immobile under it I suspect. Seem to remember doing a "180" to get the dunlin above!

But all credit for ingenuity, and I like some of the other things they are doing like the shelter at Vardo, and educating the locals.

 

[Ramps]

Stunning photos....he must be doing something right.

 

[Fozzybear]

I think it's a bit overkill.. just lie down and wait..

e.g. http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/420903/ppuser/87651

That was just with a 70-300mm.. I could not have got better results with any amount of "shell". Plus you are quite immobile under it I suspect. Seem to remember doing a "180" to get the dunlin above!

But all credit for ingenuity, and I like some of the other things they are doing like the shelter at Vardo, and educating the locals.

Yes - if you go to the right place and take care then the birds will come to you. Once or twice I've found myself on a beach and suddenly surrounded by small waders happily feeding within feet of me, which is a fantastic experience knowing that they are there by choice. There are a lot of areas where waders (especially the mid to large sized species) are very difficult to get close to though, even with the GI Joe antics of Jane's favourite photographers.

I do remember though John Aitchison's film of waders taken from a similar hide on a shingle beach (Snettisham?) on one of the Bill Oddie programmes. The footage he got was fantastic, but it did look incredibly cold!

 

[AllanM]

Excellent, and when he's finished taking photos he could turn it up the other way and use it as a bucket to collect all that rubbish up off the beach.