Selling metal art sculpture and other sculptures in the Weaverville, Trinity County California area. Beautiful sexy elegant art includes dragonflies, fairies and green men.

A scarecrow is a device (traditionally a mannequin) that is used to discourage birds such as crows from disturbing crops. Not only do crows feed on recently cast seed, they also gather nightly, starting with groups of a half dozen which then unite to form a group of 20 to 30 and so on until the flock is quite large and noisy. It is their habit to return to the same place each night.

In the Japanese mythology compiled in Kojiki in 712, a scarecrow appears as a deity, Kuebiko, who cannot walk, but knows everything of the world. Crows can be a problem in Spring gardens. They can work down a row pulling up recently sprouted corn to eat the remaining seed/seedlings. In the southern Appalachians another common method of scaring off crows was use of a dead crow hung upside down from a pole.

Modern scarecrows seldom take a human shape. On California farmland, highly reflective aluminized PET film ribbons are tied to the plants to create shimmers from the sun. Another approach are automatic noise guns powered with propane gas.

Besides having a practical use in your garden, this scarecrow is unique and hand crafted. The scarecrow came to be by accident really. I used items typically associated in and around the garden and some leftover material from previous projects. At just over six feet tall he would make an excellent addition to anyones landscape.