I'm not sure about the damage being done by badgers. They come through my garden every night and they can make a mess, breaking through hedges and barriers and digging holes. However, I have never known them to damage trees and NEVER to pile things up. Typically, you can trace their movements in the way you can track litter louts, it isn't organised in any way. Foxes are diggers,too. I think I would keep a watch - or a camera - for a few nights. It's the piling things up that worries me: I hope it's not human activity.
Mark56 - I briefly wondered if you were my husband (also called Mark) posing as a gardener in his bid to buy his night surveillance kit - that is the exact same solution he came up with! ????
badger is an interesting theory. What is odd though is that this animal hasn't touched anything else (eg lawn) apart from the 3-4 shrubs and the couple of containers on our patio. We don't have many worms in our garden but we do have an abundance of slugs and snails.
posy - omg I would be horrified if it were human!!
perhaps the only way to get to the bottom of this is to get night surveillance. i suppose it would double as home security system so could maybe justify the cost.... ?
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I'm not sure about the damage being done by badgers. They come through my garden every night and they can make a mess, breaking through hedges and barriers and digging holes. However, I have never known them to damage trees and NEVER to pile things up. Typically, you can trace their movements in the way you can track litter louts, it isn't organised in any way. Foxes are diggers,too. I think I would keep a watch - or a camera - for a few nights. It's the piling things up that worries me: I hope it's not human activity.
Thank you everyone for the ideas.
Mark56 - I briefly wondered if you were my husband (also called Mark) posing as a gardener in his bid to buy his night surveillance kit - that is the exact same solution he came up with! ????
badger is an interesting theory. What is odd though is that this animal hasn't touched anything else (eg lawn) apart from the 3-4 shrubs and the couple of containers on our patio. We don't have many worms in our garden but we do have an abundance of slugs and snails.
posy - omg I would be horrified if it were human!!
perhaps the only way to get to the bottom of this is to get night surveillance. i suppose it would double as home security system so could maybe justify the cost.... ?