This autumn, as you begin to put out your painted pumpkins and fall wreaths, don't neglect the most quintessential fall decoration of all: the scarecrow! Originally made to scare off crows from ...

BEAR LAKE, MI – These scarecrows look a little different. That’s because they’re “bear crows.” The Bear Lake Fall Festival is coming up this weekend, but the bear crows are already on display ...

They can be found in summer fields and gardens, in a fall pumpkin patch, in the front yard or on the front porch. Today they are called an artistic whimsy, a work of art not intended to scare anything ...

A murder of crows gathers each morning and evening in the branches of a massive oak tree in our neighborhood. Stragglers perch in a nearby blue spruce, cawing greetings and discussing where to dine ...

Crows wreak havoc with a harvest, and that's why scarecrows came into being. Individuals made them to scare crows and not to amuse themselves and others at Halloween or Thanksgiving. Those engaged in ...

OROVILLE – Downtown Oroville’s seventh annual Scarecrow Contest kicks off at 4 p.m. today as businesses will be showing off their scariest, cutest and funniest scarecrows during monthly First Friday ...

Visitors to Costa Mesa’s Lions Park on Saturday were treated to a fall-themed spectacle, as children, adults and civic leaders celebrated a tradition with deep stakes in the city’s history — the ...