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Message: <blockquote data-quote="steve_zodiac" data-source="post: 1378768" data-attributes="member: 68631">I wouldn't change hides, I'd ban them! Can't stand them mainly for two reasons:1) You only get to see whats in front of you, not whats overhead, and birds have this niggling habit of flying. There you are sitting there, you hear something flying over, you make a race for the door, and if you aren't trampled in the stampede you get there too late.2) They are usually frequented by ignorant birders who take up the room of three people by keeping their rucksacks on the seats while they munch on marmite sandwiches, drink milky coffee and talk about drivel. The hides at Belvide aren't too bad, though at Doxey marshes the one hide is all metal (coz the vandals kept setting fire to the original one).The only problem is if you go to the Ouse Washes, Upton Warren, Martin Mere etc etc the only way you can get to see the birds is by going in a hide.Personally I'd sooner stand out in the rain and the wind, but thats just me. And I like the sea watching hide on Blakeney point, as well as the main hide at Blithfield reservoir - because everyone sits outside in front of it.</blockquote>