Tattie-bogle

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. 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.