Tattie-bogle

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A tattie-bogle in the kitchen gairden at Wester Kittochside farm near tae Carmunnock

A tattie-bogle (whiles cried a tattie-boodie or craw-bogle) is a device, traditionally a human figure dressed in auld claes, or mannequin, that is uised tae discourage birds sic as craws frae disturbin craps.[1][2] No anerly dae craws eat the recently cast seed, but they gaither nichtly an aw, stairtin wi groups o a hauf dizzen that then jyn thegither tae form a group o 20 tae 30 an so on till the flock is raither lairge an noisy. It is thair prattick tae return tae the ae place ilka nicht.

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  1. Lesley Brown (ed.). (2007). "Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles". 6th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-923324-3.
  2. "Scottish word of the week: Tattie-bogle". The Scotsman. 14 Mey 2014. Retrieved 9 September 2020.