Rhyming text depicts a scarecrow in a field that only knows how to scare the animals away season after season. Then one day a small injured crow drops from the air in front of the scarecrow. Going against its nature, the scarecrow scoops the crow up and gives it a safe place to nest and mend next to its heart of straw. The two become unlikely friends until the crow must fly away. The scarecrow stands all alone through the winter until the crow returns in the spring with a mate and starts a new nest for five small eggs, tucked safely next to a heart of straw.