The push-out mobile hide is one solution to dealing with the tidal flats of the Invercargill estuary. Greg Blomfield's family has been hunting there since the 1940s and have 'a trump card' for dealing with low water – a manuka-thatched metal frame with a suspended plank for the hunter to sit on. Add plastic wheels and some steady pushing from determined hunters and you have achieved step one of the six steps to successful wildfowling: 'Go where the birds are.'








