My first set of pigeon decoys were homemade. The kitty didn’t stretch to the fancy, rubber, inflatable ones, which were pretty much the only commercially made option available. Mine were fashioned from cartridge paper, cut into pigeon profile, stapled at the bottom and painted with poster paints. They didn’t shine and could only be used if the weather and ground were dry. But they did pull in the pigeons, as did those formed from grey, plastic gutter pipes made by friends with better DIY skills.
Today, I have a sack of modern, flock-covered decoys that I dutifully throw into the back of the Suzuki Jimny because that’s what you do. Their profile is excellent but I judged the colouring incorrect, so I trotted
