Protecting your own crop from arrogant ravens is a holy thing! But they are so annoying and cunning that catching them is not so simple. Blowtorch or a hacksaw that accidentally comes to hand is unlikely to scare them. Meanwhile, it’s only a couple of hours to drive away cottagesthey are right there! Without fear, they host, calmly walk around the site and bite, tasting both one and the other and the third. Upon arrival, the summer resident with chagrin discovers that someone again pecked the berries of Victoria. The point here is not only that human labor is in vain, Victoria was eaten and again left without preparations for the winter, but that birds are carriers of such dangerous diseases as cryptococcosis and ornithosis. In the first case, even damage to the central nervous system may occur. You can get infected by airborne dust through contact with dry droppings of birds. Moreover, the birds themselves do not suffer from such a disease, but only transmit it.
In the second case, a person runs the risk of getting pneumonia. All this is very dangerous. Nevertheless, thrifty housewives, without thinking about it, still collect the eaten berries and eat them. As they say, an uninvited guest is worse than a Tatar. It is worth fighting with voracious birds mercilessly eating the results of human labor. Here of course shovel or rake, not helpers. But you can resort to the construction of a scarecrow.
This rather interesting lesson should not be started in a hurry, it is better to take it more seriously. You need to think about where to install it, you may need some scarecrows. All materials at hand are suitable for its construction: old worn clothes, a holey hat, tin cans, old toys, tape cassettes, plastic dishes, soda bottles and much more.
Typically, the frame is made of two wooden sticks that are fastened together crosswise. Then unnecessary clothes are put on the resulting design: some kind of dressing gown, dress, jacket. The head, as in fairy tales, can be made from pumpkin or use another thing with a rounded shape. You can fasten a hat or a hat on your head, and make hair out of tape. In the "hand" can be placed brooms to create a more formidable look.
It would seem that all. However, this is not so. Such a static design is unlikely to scare the birds. It would be better if you attach old CDs to the scarecrow. They will shine from the sun and scare a certain number of birds. You can also attach chopped polyethylene, it will sway noisily in the wind. Well, tin cans of carbonated drinks are just as well used.