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.
I guess it goes back to Edo times and the samurai providing an abundance of heads to be put on sticks
Yes, that’s very true!
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.
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!
I bet the birds just ignore those scarecrows anyway. Someday Japan will use robot scarecrows.
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!
Is this a wink at the return of Game of Thrones tonight?
Nah. To be honest Thom, I’m embarrassed to say I don’t even know what Game of Throness is…
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..
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.
Lee – with a hair do like that, it has to be a J-guy surely
I don’t know, doesn’t look carefully enough disheveled to me.
“Foreigner”? Nah. Looks like a salon model head catering to hosts or visual kei band members. I mean, look at the yellow lipstick.
Good point. Hadn’t considered the lipstick.