How to scare birds off vegetables (From Keighley News)

How to scare birds off vegetables

9:40am Thursday 2nd July 2009

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Two Steeton Primary School clubs have joined forces to defend their prized vegetable patches from scavenger birds.

The art and gardening clubs have combined to create artistic scarecrows to guard plants which pupils have spent months growing. The colourful creatures were made from old clothes belonging to the pupils, which were then stuffed with hay and straw.

Some children even hung CDs from their scarecrows so that birds would be dazzled by the reflection of the sun.

Angela Jackson, who co-ordinates the after-school gardening club at the school, said: “We have potatoes, lettuce, onions and strawberries and big blackbirds nesting nearby which are very fond of our lettuces.

“I think that all the pupils genuinely enjoyed making the scarecrows — some hadn’t seen or felt hay before and didn’t like touching it, because it is quite hard. I think the scarecrows have worked well.

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