This is an excellent time of year to use your webcam for nature study.
Take a few days to get your clothing and props together. Then set up your webcam and upload the images. It’s an excellent way to observe the natural world in the comfort of your own home.
OK - at the risk of being redundant here are the details:
Most of the time when I see a scarecrow, it’s either in a backyard garden, or it’s a Halloween lawn decoration.
Here’s something else you can do with that scarecrow. It works really well if you have and old shirt, trousers, hat and gloves that look like what the scarecrow is wearing:
If the scarecrow’s hat has a rim, sprinkle bird seed there, too.
The birds will avoid the scarecrow at first, but after a few days, they will start to eat the seeds.
After a few days, dress like the scarecrow and sit in the lawn chair
with the tray of bird seed. How long did you sit there before the birds
came?
How did it feel to have birds land in your lap or on your hat?
What did you learn about the different birds that visited? How long did the birds come to feed before you got up? Did you put the scarecrow back after you left?