A farmer was struggling to come up with something that would scare off the pigeons that kept attacking his sugar beet.

Old traditional scarecrow was failing to keep the wildfowl away so he made a new one looking just like singer Amy Winehouse with tattoos, cigarettes and bottle of booze.

“The pigeons are terrified, they’re sitting up on the telephone wires too scared to come into the field which is brilliant. Every farmer needs an Amy scarecrow,” he said.

When the singing career is over she will have something to lean on.