APPENDIX 5
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Hide design and construction
1.
The informe biɔn given below ic besed on a Wildfowl Trust design given 2. Beazley 1969, clightly modified for conditions at Mai Pc.
General
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It will be necessary to raise the two hides in the mangrove ca stilts and due to the Shui terrain of the anus it wil. pr ball, bo mu sleeƒ % the two bund hides, either with an earth platform or on stilts.
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inst be renombered that the higher tho hide is, the further any noise guncrated by the occup into vill cry.
3.
The approach to the two mangrove hides will be along raised wooden volkways, which will probably be adequately comouflaged and concealed by the surtoundin· mmgrove, It may be accostay initially to use rood screens for the approaches to the hund hides but it should be possible to plant mangrove. Enreg mites, etc. to form a netural screen,
Requirements: *
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An observation opening 7 in. (18 cm) deep his crening a continuous along the front of the hide except opposite the entiende whore it is blocked to prevent binub movzulng movements against the sky.
An elbow rest, placed 8 in. (20 ca-) below the bottom of the opening. projecting & in. (20 cm.) from the wall face.
Seria 1 t. 11 in- (58 cm below the bottom of the opening, an
1 ft. 4 in. (41 cm.) from the well face at fcct level.
À foot wil or foot ato 18 in. (45 cm.) below the sent level, 7 in. (10 cm.) from the wall face.
Construction
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A siber trene clad with weather boarding should be sufficiently robu and woulé bien in with the mounding rosa -
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should be covered with as to produce a thatched effect. An eavc of thatch shofc run Tong, the front of the hide. This would reduce glare and thus aid chocation, as well as providing an additional screening effe to reduce the corpicuous me of the observer
ii.B. All motsurements are for 'average' British person.
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