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Imagemaster wrote:
Depending where and how you set up your blind, you do not need a collapsible blind or camo material. Just an old dark or dull-colored piece of material will work. Anything in front of, or draped over you, that conceals you usually works. Camo does not really fool many birds as they see movement first and can easily see your lens poking out of your blind.
I agree with imagemaster. I have had negative experiences using one person camo blinds. It's like the animals see this bizarre thing in their environment and think, "What the hell is this? No way I'm getting near that thing." Animals that aren't very perceptive don't survive well. One fall I was photographing flying snow geese at the edge of a wildlife refuge, a few hundred feet from a hunt club. There were lots of photographers by me standing in the open with long lenses on heavy tripods and lots of hunters standing nearby in a ditch. The photographers wore mostly darker clothes, like jeans and a dark t-shirt. The hunters all wore camo. The geese flew unperturbed and low over the photographers without changing course, but as soon as they saw the hunters, they immediately changed their flight path. The geese ignored the movements of the photographers and the swinging long lenses and tripods, but reacted to the sight of shotguns and camo before the shooting began. Maybe the lead geese had survived prior negative encounters.
For me, this reinforced that the main thing is slow, non-aggressive movements that are tangential to the target, with plenty of pauses. It also helps to face away from the target animal and to keep your face behind your camera. Some animals get nervous if you stare at them and are less cautious if you appear to ignore them. If possible, I use my car as a blind and use a piece of white sheer material over the window I am shooting through. It's hard to see a face through the brighter side of the white material, especially if you put something dark behind you.
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~ Ron