Jim Bird’s Towering Creations A Treat For Motorists Between Eutaw And Demopolis

By Justin Averette

Anyone who has driven down U.S. 43 between Eutaw and Demopolis can’t miss Jim Bird’s creations.

Made from hay, scrap metal and “pretty well junk” as Bird describes it, he created the first pieces more than 30 years ago as a surprise for his wife, Elizabeth.

Lib, as she was known to family and friends, had gone out of town to help following the birth of a grandchild. Bird had stayed behind to work on his farm near Forkland and had the idea to make a caterpillar and spider out of some lopsided hay he had in a field.“I had hay bales that weren’t right. They were odd balls, and I had pushed them to the side,” Bird said. “I decided while she was gone I would take some of that and make some kind of structure. That’s how it got started.”

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