It’s not all that unusual for farmers to fashion scarecrows from mannequin heads and a few old clothes — a look that can be both surprisingly convincing as well as suitably scary.
Others, however, are either not so creative or simply can’t be bothered, and instead just make do by shoving a head on a stick.
Hans ter Horst says
I guess it goes back to Edo times and the samurai providing an abundance of heads to be put on sticks 🙂
Lee says
Yes, that’s very true!
john says
If it’s just to deter birds rather than trespassers, I’d think that birds can’t be that stupid
to confuse this with a real person, but then they might be more put off by the
Rothko in the background and prefer something a bit more (Hiroshi) Matsumo?
Nice hairstyle for nesting material too.
Lee says
Maybe, but while I don’t want to do them a disservice, I’m not sure that birds are all that concerned with whether it’s a Rothko or Matsumo-like background!
Jon says
I bet the birds just ignore those scarecrows anyway. Someday Japan will use robot scarecrows.
Lee says
Yeah, I’m not convinced they work either. Hopefully though there’ll be robots to clean apartments and cook before they move on to bird scaring!
Thom says
Is this a wink at the return of Game of Thrones tonight?
Lee says
Nah. To be honest Thom, I’m embarrassed to say I don’t even know what Game of Throness is…
winnie says
This is frightening!
It might scare away the Human beings (at least it’s scare me) but not the Birds.
Nowadays, the birds are getting smarter..
Lee says
It’s a bit disturbing, isn’t it? But yeah, I’m pretty sure the birds are smart enough to know it’s not real.
Sam says
Lee – with a hair do like that, it has to be a J-guy surely
Lee says
I don’t know, doesn’t look carefully enough disheveled to me.
Jeffrey says
“Foreigner”? Nah. Looks like a salon model head catering to hosts or visual kei band members. I mean, look at the yellow lipstick.
Lee says
Good point. Hadn’t considered the lipstick.