Natural Hides

[mark williams 7,549]

Had a good hour this morning,natural hide building, trimming, preparing.

Anyways, one of my major, major, challenges in my neck of the woods is crows. " Wily is a huge understatement" - they are incredibly wild and "switched on" around here.

Mr Pishhhh taker had to land didn`t he, me and no rifle .

 

Just my dog, my saw and my camera.

 

"The hide is working" he hadn't a clue I was there.

 

 

"Field Craft",- 31 yards

 

 

atb

[mattwhite 1,993]

Every dog has its day and I think you and yours will be having a good few pal.

[Jonjon79 13,340]

That's just typical.

 

Teach the dog to climb trees

[Rez 4,957]

Looks like it blindfolded to me

 

Your a proper David Aternborough.

 

Is this the hide we saw in your images a few weeks ago?

[philpot 4,928]

So are we going to see a photo of the new hide yet Mark, I assume this is the one you showed a photo of...................or did not show a photo of in a previous post.

 

Phil

[mark williams 7,549]

Oh no mate, that's finished and ready. This is an old spot being brought to date.

David Attenborough, Tommy Walsh, - ?

 

 

atb

[mark williams 7,549]

Get you the photo you want tomorrow as I should be back there to finish up.

 

 

atb

[Rez 4,957]

Sweet.

[philpot 4,928]

I will be interested to see the results Mark because I intend building two natural hides on my perm, one for the bunnies and one for crows/pigeon, so a few photo's may well be useful right now.

 

Phil

[Nicepix 5,650]

I used to build them at this time of year out of willow and / or hazel mainly for pigeon decoying. If you put the branches in deep enough they will take and start to grow and sprout leaves and small branches. You can weave these new branches into each other and make a solid permanent hide in next to no time.If you haven't got willow or hazel you can make a frame out of any old branches then in late summer get a bag full of goose grass and spread it all over the frame. The seeds will drop and germinate and cover the frame the following spring. It will be green in spring and summer and then brown in autumn and winter and regenerates every year.