In late spring and early summer, when the first fruits, especially cherries and cherries, ripen, many ravens, sparrows and starlings flock to the honorable feast. In cases where the aforementioned birds notice and love the tree you like, you can say goodbye to the crop, it will disappear in a fairly short time. Trying to fix this problem, the owners of personal plots using various methods try to drive away uninvited guests by installing an attractive garden scarecrow on the plot. It is worth noting the fact that after a few days on an established bogey you can notice birds sitting on it, completely not responding to it with the correct, necessary reaction. They will be at ease on it, conduct conversations, put their feathers in order and absolutely not be afraid of the guard intended for their intimidation.

Content:

1. DIY scarecrow video
2. The birds are afraid of blue and unusual noise for them video
3. How to make a fabric scarecrow for a summer residence video
4. How to make a scarecrow Musya from plastic bags
5. Scarecrow - bird 

DIY scarecrow

First you need to understand why, from ancient times, it was customary to install such fears and why birds used to be afraid of them before, but today they do not perceive them properly. It turns out that the first likenesses of effigies were not created at all with the goal of scaring away birds. In ancient times, they served as amulets. Their main purpose was to protect crops from evil spirits and to protect the family that placed him from external witchcraft.

Years and centuries passed, the true purpose of the scarecrow went into oblivion. To date, they have only the function of a guard, protecting from annoying birds. In fact, a scarecrow can very well cope with the task of scaring away birds. The only nuance that must be taken into account when creating a scarecrow is the knowledge and application of those objects and materials that birds are afraid and afraid of.

The birds are afraid of blue and unusual noise for them

Firstly, these are any objects and materials of blue color. In nature, natural materials of blue color are incommensurably small, so the birds, not realizing what it is, are afraid of them, do not get used to them and prefer to be away from them. The abundance of blue on the scarecrow will increase its effectiveness. Secondly, the presence on the scarecrow of objects emitting all kinds of noises, cod and roar, it will also not be bad to scare them away from this place. It is worth considering the fact that the birds living in the city are accustomed to various kinds of noise and do not respond to passing cars, deafening music, etc. They understand quite clearly that these factors do not pose a threat to their life.

But for such urban inhabitants there are objects from which they will be away. For example, objects that glisten from the rays of sunlight and move from the wind, for example, pieces of a magnetic tape or film fixed in a hanging position. The glare resulting from the sun and wind scares them quite strongly. Plus, this movement occurs with an object unfamiliar to them and even an incomprehensible color for them.

Birds, seeing a person moving in a personal plot, will not tear themselves away from eating on a tree, because they well understand that a person is lower than they and he will not be able to damage them or frighten them in any way. According to ornithologists, the most ideal option for scaring away pest birds would be to buy specially trained large, birds of prey, which will not only drive small brethren, but can even peck them.

In the worst case scenario, you can use a dead bird. It will be necessary to fix it on a long stick and install it on a personal plot so that it is clearly visible to its relatives. This method will work for sure. This will be a signal that the birds are very dangerous to understand here.

How to make a fabric scarecrow for a summer residence

Now, when the exact information above is indicated about what all the same the crop plunders in the garden are most afraid of, you can safely begin to create garden scarecrows using all the scaring fragments and materials. But unfortunately, even to the most correctly made scarecrow, the birds will get used to it over time and stop responding to it. There is a way out of this situation too - to make a scarecrow with your own hands in several ways and change it every few weeks. For such a short time, birds will not have the opportunity to get acquainted with the scarecrow, get used to it and stop being afraid.

And now more about several design options for garden scarecrows. First you need to prepare the following materials:

• stick about two meters long
• stick about one meter long
• worn or unnecessary shirt and pants (it will be perfect if at least one of the necessary things is saturated blue)
• gloves and headgear (hat, cap, top hat, etc.)
• bag of fabric to create a head
• stuffed bird or dead crow
• straw, to give a rounded shape to the scarecrow
• needle thread or pins
• several sit-disks
• twine
• markers
• balloon
• hammer and nails.

Directly, the workflow should begin by creating a framework for the scarecrow. To do this, to a two-meter stick, slightly above the middle, you need to nail a meter stick.

You need to do this in such a way that after the actions performed, you get a kind of frame that resembles a cross-shaped design. A shorter stick will be an excellent base for arms and shoulders.

The next step is the construction of the head. To do this, take a cloth bag (in similar bags in stores they pack plumbing elements, shoes, etc.), stuff it with straw and form a round shape from it.

If such a bag was not in the household, it is quite possible to replace it with an old pillowcase, after stitching it with stitches around the perimeter.

If work occurs with a bag, then after stuffing with straw, it is mounted on the top of a long stick and the edges are pulled together with laces located at the edges of the bag.

If work occurs with a pillowcase, then after stuffing with straw, it is also attached to the edge of a longer stick using the help of twine.

After doing all the above not tricky actions, you can begin to create facial features with the help of markers. Why markers, not markers? Because markers are more resistant to the manifestations of different weather conditions (bright, scorching sunlight, strong, water, rain streams).

Now you can make a scarecrow out of ropes or straw with a hair and fasten it on your head with pins or sew it with thread and a needle.

The next stage of work will be to put on a pre-prepared shirt on the crossbar. Its bottom and sleeves will need to be sewn up or stabbed - this will prevent the filler from falling out, in this version of straw. Then stuff with straw to give a more rounded shape, reminiscent of the shape of the human body.

Gloves awaiting their turn can also be filled either with straw or other suitable material. After that, they can be fixed by any of the two methods described above, to the edges of the sleeves.

Now drives. For their fastening you need two not very long pieces of rope, some ends of which will have to be pulled through the middle of the discs, and the other tied to gloves.

At the slightest breath of wind, the discs will turn and shine, thereby scaring the birds. Now pants. Their bottom also needs to be sewn up or stabbed.

In the middle, cram and evenly distribute the straw.

Attach their upper part to the bottom of the shirt.

The very edge of the legs can not be fixed. When the wind blows, the legs will move and give the impression of a walking person.

For the final achievement of the result, only a dressed headdress is needed, on which you can fix a stuffed bird or an inflated balloon on a small rope, again to create oscillatory movements. Now the scarecrow is ready. Now it can be installed in the garden, between the trees on which the berries ripen.

How to make a scarecrow Musya from plastic bags

To design such a scarecrow you will need:

• garbage or any other packages (it should be noted that the larger and larger the packages, the more scaring noise they will create)
• flesh-colored tights or stockings
• tin cans, such as those selling beer or other soft drinks
• nitron
• multi-colored markers
• needle and thread
• twine
• tow black
• scotch
• stick about two meters long
• stick about one meter long

In principle, the main actions of the work are no different from those described above in the example of creating the scarecrow described above. But nevertheless, the course of some processes of creating the scarecrow Maroussia needs to be clarified. The head can be made from stockings or tights. You can fill them with nitron, scraps of fabric, etc. Straw in this option is better not to use, because it is a more rigid material that can easily break through the capron, will fall out of it and ruin the whole appearance.

The bottom of the shaped head can be fixed with twine and put on it on top of the stick. Using multi-colored markers, you can draw a face, and for example make eyebrows from tow and attach them to the head. From any package you like, preferably blue, you can form a bow, and then attach it to the crown of your head.

After that, you can mark the torso. They do this as follows - they put plastic bags on the crossbeam so that the glued edge is near the center (with such dressing, the glued edge will easily break through with a stick). The edges located near the center are wrapped with tape. The opposite edge is left not fixed to create more movements and noise effects.

Now you can wear a T-shirt or blouse with a long sleeve. Fill the dressed item with nitron. A skirt can be made from packages of two different colors. It is desirable that one of these two colors be blue. The skirt is formed directly on the scarecrow. The first layer is the longest. All subsequent layers (their number depends on the desires and capabilities of the creator) can be made shorter and shorter. Each subsequent layer is fixed with the same adhesive tape to the previous one. The process of creating this piece of clothing is simple - one edge of the bags is fixed at about the waist level, and the second remains free to move and create rustling. Naturally, the more layers the skirt will create, the more magnificent they will be, the louder the noise and the more intense rustling. The final touch to this image will be banks connected with twine and attached to the frames of Musi.

How to put a scarecrow bird

This type of scarecrow is significantly different in appearance from the two types described above. With this kind, it is quite possible to replace a dead bird, which there is no desire to kill. This scarecrow will look like a crow. Even if it doesn’t scare away all the crows, sparrows, starlings and other small birds will surely frighten him. Scaring off a bird with a bird is a sure enough way. To create such a scarecrow you will need:

• black fabric, preferably polyester
• black breeches or shorts borrowed from a child
• yellow-black knee-highs
• nylon black stocking
• black tow
• styrofoam
• black nitron
• twine
• pins
• needle and thread
• rods
• black marker
• stick about one and a half meters long
• stick about half a meter long
• glue
• iron cans

Judging by the length of the necessary sticks, one could already understand that this scarecrow would be a little smaller. The first thing you need to do from the prepared fabric is to cut a square, with sides equal to fifty centimeters. A hole is cut through the center of the resulting square so that it can be put on a stick. Along the perimeter of the square, make cuts about five centimeters long. Thus, ribbons will be obtained all over the edge. Now they put the fabric on the crossbar so that triangles form in front and behind. The edges, before the cut tapes need to be stitched or use pins. Then fill the inside with nitron and thereby give shape to the figure.

To the edges of the horizontal bar you need to attach a tow. It will create the appearance of bird wings in motion. The length of the fixed tow should be made as long as possible. The head of the described scarecrow is made from a stocking, filling it with nitron. Then put on the edge of the stick and tied with twine. Eyes are made of foam. Stick. The nose is also cut out of polystyrene foam and is fastened with quick-drying glue. In front of your eyes, you can draw pupils with a black marker. Make towels of tow and fix it with quick-drying glue on the top of the head.

At the meter level, rods are attached to the stick, in other words, a place is formed where a small scarecrow of a bird will sit. Now it came to the use of children's shorts and golfs. They are also filled with nitron and held together. One edge of the shorts must be attached to the body formed, and the second to the rods in such a way as to give the impression that the bird is sitting on them. Polyfoam will be needed again to create bird paws. After they are made with glue, they are fixed to the golf. Long threads with cans fixed on them are tied to rods.

Of course, when creating any of the above types of big or small scarecrows, you can move away from this description, turn on your imagination. The creation of such structures may depend and vary on the materials available at hand. It will also not be bad if children of this kind are involved. For them, this will be a new, unusual and developing activity.

Author: Sergey and Svetlana Khuentsov

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