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Having a few problems at the minute regarding the decoy pattern... Today was disappointing to say the least, I arrived at a rape stubble and some 200 birds lifted off the field, and I thought to myself happy days I'll get a bit off shooting today, but of course it did not go to plan... I set a hide up which was well made and hard for the human eye to pick up even at a range of 20 yards, which I was rather pleased about considering I'm a young shot and basically a novice when it comes to decoying pigeons. Next was to set the pattern up, so oit I went and set up half a dozen shell decoys and a couple of crow decoys to the side all I have is 8 deeks in total. I began to shoot and the first bird arrived back within 10 minutes and I killed him with my second shot, unfortunately he landed in an uncut field of rape seed on the other side of the field, and I went out to collect him with the Labrador and we had a good look but the dog couldn't find it and I didnt want to damge any rape so I left it for mr fox to find. Back to the shooting and I fluffed a couple of shots then a big shower of rain came through, it rained hard for about half and hour but I stuck jt out in the hope that the birds would feed hard after it ( it had rained all morning amd it was about 2pm ) but as soon as the rain was over the pigeons where out in forceand he the problem lies. The pigeons where quite high and were not being drawsed into the decoys, I changed the pattern round.acouple of times but to no avail, the birds simply didn't see the decoys, is movement a must have in the pattern and if so what is the best way to solve the problem? And also the cheapest. Any advice is greatly appreciated, and if anyone has any other tips on how to draw in birds (the feathered kind please) Thanks for the help, cheers SW