At times crows roost in some pine trees very close to my neighbor’s house. He is a young fellow in his late twenties. One day as the sun was setting and the crows showed up I was standing in his yard talking with him. He said something about the crows and I told him that they could tell a stick from a gun. He seemed to doubt that so I told him to point the short stick which he had just picked up from his yard at the crows as if it were a gun and see what happened. They paid him no attention so I then asked him to go and get his shotgun. When he stepped out of the backdoor and pointed the gun toward the trees they didn’t pay any attention but I told him to walk over next to me as he was standing under the carport where he was not visible to the crows. He approached with the gun at his side pointed straight down and when he reached me I said, “Now, turn around and shoulder the gun”. As soon as he did there was a warning call from the sentry and all the crows left. I think it made a believer out of him.
Very interesting story. That means most “scarecrows” are useless exercises in futility... Or perhaps the crows are toying with the people that put them out...