{"id":25435,"date":"2018-09-23T15:29:56","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T22:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=25435"},"modified":"2018-09-23T15:29:56","modified_gmt":"2018-09-23T22:29:56","slug":"scarecrow-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/scarecrow-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Scaring More than Crows at Scarecrow Events"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Most scarecrows are funny and make you laugh. But some of the entrants in the annual California scarecrow contests can creep you out. In the spirit of Halloween, that’s what most people want.<\/p>\n

Scarecrow stick figures in fields of corn are mostly symbolic these days, as shiny, metallic strips of film that flit in the wind seem more effective in keeping birds off the grapes, fruits, vegetables and other valuable crops.<\/p>\n

However, as the harvest season approaches with pumpkin fests, harvest fests and corn mazes, there’s a fresh crop of scarecrows \u00a0to bring delight.<\/p>\n

California Scarecrow Events<\/a><\/h2>\n

AUBURN: Auburn Community Festival Scarecrow Contest<\/a><\/p>\n

BENICIA: Frightfully First Street Annual Scarecrow Contest<\/p>\n

BIG BEAR LAKE: Scarecrow Festival<\/p>\n

BRENTWOOD: Scarecrows in the Park Contest<\/p>\n

CAMBRIA: Cambria Scarecrow Festival<\/a><\/p>\n

ELK GROVE: Giant Pumpkin Festival Scarecrow Contest<\/a><\/p>\n

FALLBROOK Scarecrow Days<\/a><\/p>\n

LATHROP: Scarecrow Contest Display at Dell’Osso Pumpkin Maze<\/p>\n

NORWALK: Scarecrow Contest at Halloween Festival<\/p>\n

POLLOCK PINES: Girl Scouts Scarecrow Contest at Harris Tree Farm<\/p>\n

RIPON: Scarecrow Fest<\/p>\n

SANTA YNEZ VALLEY: Santa Ynez Valley\u00a0 Scarecrow Fest<\/a><\/p>\n

SIERRA MADRE: Scarecrows on Display at annual City Contest<\/p>\n

UKIAH: Scarecrow City at Ukiah Pumpkin Festival<\/a><\/p>\n

WINDSOR: Harvest Jamboree Scarecrow Building<\/p>\n

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Most scarecrows are funny and make you laugh. But some of the entrants in the annual California scarecrow contests can creep you out. In the spirit of Halloween, that’s what most people want. Scarecrow stick figures in fields of corn are mostly symbolic these days, as shiny, metallic strips of film that flit in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25435"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25436,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25435\/revisions\/25436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}