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What animal keeps digging a hole in my garden?

Smy_02Smy_02 Posts: 4
in Problem solving
Based in Surrey, UK. The hole is about 8” long by 5” wide. It’s definitely an animal, I keep covering it and it makes a new hole everytime.

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  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    Could be foxes or badgers.  Logs on soil are the perfect habitat for many types of beetle larvae which are a favourite food of the afromentioned wildlife.
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • Smy_02Smy_02 Posts: 4
    Thank you! I have seen foxes around but no badgers, I’m thinking it must be a fox.
  • Joy*Joy* Posts: 571
    Squirrels? It doesn't look very big for a large mammal. They bury nuts, for later.
  • Smy_02Smy_02 Posts: 4
    I haven’t seen foxes or squirrels going near there, the hole is close to my house. I’m changing my guess to a badger or a hedgehog. Is it possible that they only come out only very late at night so that I have never seen them? I have seen hedgehogs about 15 years ago, could it be a hedgehog?
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    Hedgehog is possible but not famous for digging holes that size.  They are all nocturnal animals so you are unlikely to see them at work unless you have a trailcam.  However, a fox remains my favourite potential culprit.
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • Smy_02Smy_02 Posts: 4
    Thank you, I’ll put a camera and try to find out what animal it is.
  • LydiaDeetzLydiaDeetz Posts: 11
    We have foxes digging up our lawn :( We love foxes but this is testing my devotion to them haha! 
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited March 2021
    24 hour service unless they see a welcoming light?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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