What's digging up my plot!?

[bikermike]

Something has been digging all over my plot. Paths lifted up, one new bed in particular has had a load of the compost pushed out and the cardboard ripped up and dug up.


Gah!

I have put strategic paving slabs and bramble cuttings down to dissuade.

It's interesting, something has had a regular nose around, but not to this level of diggings. Is it the time of year for foxes or something?

[bario1]

Definitely foxes. I watched one dig a big hole in one of my large blueberry containers once. When I went over to have a look, there was some kind of buried fungus thing that it'd been digging out to eat.

[MyWifesBrassicas]

I kept finding eggs buried all round my plot, really weird. Thing is, it didn't look disturbed.
Somebody here assured me it was definitely foxes.

[lottie dolly]

Badger also will dig up after something to eat,especially when dry.

[bikermike]

I think it's eaten one or more of my asparagus crowns too...

[Thelma Sanders]

I kept finding eggs buried all round my plot, really weird. Thing is, it didn't look disturbed.

Same thing happens here, as you say - it's a really weird feeling when you find them in the ground. The old'uns told me it's foxes, as well

[ameno]

It's badgers on my plot. They haven't actually touched the beds (at least not my beds), but the paths are littered with divots where they've been digging for worms.

[mcdood]

Yep on my plot if I add any fresh compost or muck I protect it with a border fence or wire mesh over the top or they will be in digging for worms.

[MyWifesBrassicas]

Same thing happens here, as you say - it's a really weird feeling when you find them in the ground. The old'uns told me it's foxes, as well

It was happening that often, I was beginning to think it might be a fellow allotmenteer playing a prank in the hope i put my hands through it and it explodes with a putrid pungency of a 1000 skunks

[MelanieSW]

We have a resident allotment fox who does exactly that. Rips up cardboard from the bottom of my paths, nibbles freshly planted seedlings, digs new beds. Poops on them.
I know what to expect and don't get too worked up about it any more.
Any freshly prepared beds I now leave for a couple of nights before I do any planting, to give foxy the time to do his/her worst.

[Can the Man]

I kept finding eggs buried all round my plot, really weird. Thing is, it didn't look disturbed.
Somebody here assured me it was definitely foxes.

What kind of eggs ?

[Thelma Sanders]

Bird's eggs, of all sorts, buried here...

[Can the Man]

Bird's eggs, of all sorts, buried here...

What kind of wild animal buries birds eggs ?

[Can the Man]

Bird's eggs, of all sorts, buried here...

I just googled this and it appears Foxes do cache eggs for eating later, see here

https://www.discoverwildlife.com/how...y-egg-thieves/

This will help identify the different birds eggs https://www.discoverwildlife.com/how...fy-birds-eggs/

[MyWifesBrassicas]

What kind of eggs ?

they were hens eggs