Your best to date Den.
Your best to date Den.
How about trying a sheet of old ply or an old scafold plank. If you can set it up with a slight bend in the middle it will form a small hump which the bird can walk across towards you. Should give you a lower point of view at one end and if set up right the other end should be lost with the DOF.
If it the Austin bird on road look you was after try some roofing felt with small stones/dust from the quarry.