Birds avoid straw men. The reasons are deception and fear. Their brains see a man about to kill them. But the farmer has simply made an effigy of straw. Thus the birds are in his power and flee.
Straw man.
Straw Man **
Royce Levi Australian Teacher and Author
Welcome to all who, like me, still have so much to learn and understand
Royce Levi Australian Teacher and Author 