It’s been one of those wet and wild Autumnal weekends so I decided to build a new wildlife hide from scratch and add some new feeding stations.
I usually use a popup hide or a ghillie suit but as the weather is going to take a turn for the worse, I decided a permanent hide would be better.
It measures 4ft square by 6ft tall and is made from pine strips and pallet wood.
I’ve then wrapped it win bin liners to help waterproof it and a tarp over the top to keep the rain out.
I need to build a wooden floor for it and I’m going to add things to it as we go through winter. A shelf or two would be good and I’ll keep finding fallen branches to clad the outside.
I had a Wren fly in and take a look whilst I was setting my tripod up and it seemed impressed. It felt weird and amazing to be 1 foot away from a Wren at eye level.
Here are some photographs of the building stage of my wildlife hide and below them are photographs of my first day in the hide.
Photographs from my first day in the hide.
Building your own hide
I definitely encourage you to give building a wildlife hide from scratch a go. It doesn’t have to cost the earth and you can even make use of scrap materials.
If you’ve already built a hide, I love to see and hear all about it!
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