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Scarecrows

It's just disrespectful.

Do you think they're short-sighted or something?

At which point did you expect *any* bird, let alone a crow, to confuse these things with humans?

Humans do that thing where they move sometimes. That's a pretty important point in identifying animals in general.

Like, on a lot of smaller nervous systems, not moving actually sets you out of the "living" category. Humans are probably the only ones overthinking it to the point of classifying still things as alive.

And even if your scarecrow moved - birds have wings: they flap kinda hard, and it pushes them in the *air*, out of reach in about 2 seconds.

You should expect to scare birds in a distance you can reach before they take flight. NOT a full sized field.

That's the whole point of wings, not having to care about landstucks unless they are at arm-reach.

Now maybe, in recent years, as more and more people take on the noble hobby of blasting shotguns in the general direction of bird flocks, they may start to be actually scared.

I guess a scarecrow with an AI-guided auto-shotgun could have some success.

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Apparently I'm not the first one to have this epiphany, and everyone always reported they didn't work.

Another stupid thing in my book o stupid

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