Music graduate gets job as human scarecrow Jamie Fox, 22, who recently graduated from Bangor University, will use a ukulele, accordion and cowbell to frighten away troublesome partridges. While his fellow students may be pulling pints, going travelling or desperately seeking their first professional role, Mr Fox will earn £250 a week patrolling the ten-acre field. Wearing a bright orange coat, he will play the musical instruments in a bid to finally scare off the hardy birds, which were unperturbed by ordinary scarecrows. His employer, a farmer from Aylsham, Norfolk, even warned him to "bring a deckchair and a good book" for his days in the oilseed rape field, where he will also practice his ukulele in the hopes of getting a full-time job in music. Mr Fox, who says his friends are "slightly envious" of his role, is now saving to pay for a trip to New Zealand next year. "I get to sit and read for a lot of the time but whenever I see the partridges, I have to get up and scare them off," he told the BBC. I ring a cowbell and I've even played the accordion, but the ukulele doesn't seem to have any effect on them. The farmer said to me, 'Bring a deckchair and a good book'. A couple of my friends in busier, more generously-paid jobs, are slightly envious. Farmer William Youngs said he resorted to his human scarecrow after partridges were not put off by more ordinary methods of frightening them away. "The only way to get rid of them is to walk down the field and push them off," he said. Jamie's doing a good job. You can really see the difference.