Onion tops separated and lying next to the bulb

[dilettante]

I've tried googling, and searching the forum, but maybe I haven't figured out the right combo of words to get a result. At my plot the other day I noticed that several onions had had the tops removed and lying next to the bulb. It wasn't all of my onions, but a fair few, and not all next to each other. I'm baffled.

I've not heard of this before, something that just eats through the neck of the onion. Is that a thing? How do I deal with it?

[muddled]

Birds I reckon, pecking at them then discovering they're not that keen on onions?

Or, if they were well frozen, could a fox have laid on them and snapped them? I often find mine flat because they've been laid on...though not decapitated!

[veggiechicken]

They look snapped off to me! Foxes, badgers, dogs, kids............maybe?

[Aberdeenplotter]

is it eaten for sure or has the top rotted off?

[dilettante]

I don't know if it was eaten through, to be honest. I don't know what it looks like. They didn't appear to be rotten.

I'll have to double check to see if there's a pathway through them, or an obvious patch a fox may have lain. But there are so many other place to lie down on my plot. Why my onions? Perhaps it was a combo of frozen and lain on, or frozen and pecked. I had a brief paranoia my neighbour might have done it, as revenge for the pile of wet rubbish I inherited and have decided to wait to let dry out before I dispose of it. But they don't look pulled off, nor snipped, and that would be slightly insane. It would be just my luck though to finally get a plot and have a mad neighbour.

I wish I had a camera trap so I could see the naughty fox or bird that has done this.

Luckily I have plenty more sets to plant.