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Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust site at Welney.
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In late August 2005, we began a very interesting project at Welney for the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust.
The project was to demolish an existing hide 25m long, attached to the main observatory, and construct a new hide of similar dimensions and a new ramped access and associated screens down from a new bridge over the ‘100ft drain’ built by Kier (Eastern) Construction. We did everything from the piled foundations up, and finished the job on 27th Oct 2005.
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This is the new Bittern hide at Minismere which we completed
just before Christmas 2001. It overlooks a section of the reed
bed which has been specifically managaed for Bitterns in recent
years with 10 pairs breeding in 2001.
The hide floor is 4.8m above ground level with four flights
of steps at the rear. The foundations are piled with a reinforced
concrete ring beam on top. It also has a walkway around for
maintanace.
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Flights
of stairs at the rear of the hide.
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Catterick
Garrison, N. Yorkshire.
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In Febuary
2005 we erected a 5.4m tower hide at Foxglove Covert which is
a small 'Local Nature Reserve' within Cambrai Barracks at Catterick
Garrison. The hide had to be elevated 4 metres and have access
stairs and landing so solid foundations were essential. Each
support column has a 1 metre cube concrete pad and galvanised
base plate held into the concrete with 22mm hold down bolts.
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In
early February 2005 we manufactured and erected three hides
at the RSPB Reserve at Dungeness in Kent.
The
largest was a hide with a 18m frontage and with a 90 degree
angle and a porch over the entrance. It was also lined out with
11mm stirlingboard. It also had an access ramp and landing.
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RSPB
Dungeness
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Low
Barns, Witton le Wear, Co. Durham.
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In
June 2004 we erected this 7.5m diameter octagonal hide for Durham
Wildlife Trust at Low Barns Nature Reserve. The Trust's man
on site was David Long who we have had the pleasure of working
for on many occasions in the past. The hides is called 'The
Northumbrian Water hide' in honour of the sponsor.
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October 10th 2004, we set out for Spain (our third trip), this
time to a privately owned created wetland know as Dehesa Monreal
which is near the town of Dosbarrios in the province of Toledo,
30 miles south of Madrid. It has thirteen lagoons with tracks
between which are lined with trees and bushes.
The
contract was to manufacture, deliver and erect five hides, four
5.4m x 2.4m hides with glazed viewing slots and external plywood
shutters to keep out the sun, and one 14.4m x 2.4m angled hide
(to overlook two lagoons) of the same specification, one metre
above ground level with an access ramp up to it.
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Dehesa
Monreal, Toledo, Spain
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Delta
del Ebro, Spain.
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In
May 2003 we erected a hide on the Delta del Ebro on the Meditteranean
coast of Spain.
It was the second time we had been to Spain erecting hides,
the first being at El Oso near Avila in 2001 where we were disappointed
with the amount of birds on the site.
The
delta was totally different - literally teeming with birds.
I had never seen so many new species in such numbers. Virtually
the whole of the delta is given over to rice production and
in May it still hasn't grown above water level, giving the whole
delta the appearance of a huge lake with narrow strips of land
between each individual paddy.
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