Peter,
Thats a great idea, though I like a few full bodies in amongst a rig of silhouettes just to give it some depth. My experience being with geese rather than shorebirds but still a similar situation. I agree on the size of the rig for plover, 30 or 40 would be perfect. On my best shoot I had about 25 or more out and it made a big difference to the original dozen. One of these days I'm going to go back out to the Western Isles and spend a little more time on them. I'd love to try them out on the tide flats, we did all of our shooting in pastures during the high tides when they were inland.
Regards,
Destry
P.S. How did you do on the snipe? Does anybody over there still use a pointing dog for them? They did in the old days here from what I've read though as wild as they are some days I can't imagine a dog would be much help a lot of the time other than for pickup.
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