Ghosts in the garden

In honor of the spooky month of October, I decided to do a little ghostly decorating in the garden.

Boo!

Okay, okay.  So it's not in honor of the upcoming holiday.  It's to keep those darn birds away from my mammoth sunflowers! 

So far we've lost about half our seeds because the darn doves pick them off and leave half on the ground which the squirrels then pick up.  Covering the remaining 3 heads of seed with cheesecloth was the only thing I could think of... and so far it appears to be working to keep them away.

I also just completely decapitated one, and it's drying out inside the house in a paper bag.  I think it was ready to be picked...