Scarecrows, cloths, and ropes hung in ripening rice fields to scare away birds
About this photograph
- Creator
- Margery H. Freeman
- Date created
- 1986
- Location
- Ubud, Bali, Indonesia
- License
- This photograph copyright ©2007. Terms of use
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As harvest time approaches, scarecrows, cloths, and ropes are hung in ripening rice fields to scare away birds. In a path through the nearly ripe fields, the owners have hung several scraps of cloth from ropes and stuck a small scarecrow made of plant husks on an elevated pole.
