There’s a new scarecrow at the farm

My uncle sent up a present of this realistic-looking hawk to hang over my grandparents’ vegetable patch which is being heavily picked off by all the birds at the moment. He got the idea from his bowling club, who use the same birds to keep the others off their greens (I think).

Here’s the closeup.

So far it has been keeping off the crows and the rainbow lorikeets. However the soldier birds, butcher birds and rosellas laugh in its black-and-yellow face.

Still – it’s a start.