On 10/29/2017 6:27 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 29 Oct 2017 17:59:31 -0700, "David E. Ross"
wrote:

On 10/29/2017 12:06 PM, Ant wrote:
https://i.imgur.com/GUHwN5A.jpg from a local rural So(uthern)
CA(lifornia) house. Gophers? Deers? Dogs? Squirrels? I doubt it is the
ants even though there are Red Imported Fire and Argentine ants' mounds.

The next door neighbors' lawns don't even have this problem. What is
missing and how to stop these dig ups?

Thank you in advance.


I have seen this damage from squirrels burying acorns and nuts. I have
also seen this from birds hunting worms and grubs. This definitely does
not look like gopher, raccoon, or dog damage. Since deer are browsers
(eating shrubs) and not grazers (eating grass), I strongly doubt this is
deer damage. I am not sure about opossums.

Deer graze wherever they find grass but they don't dig... I get herds
of deer, they graze along with the Canada geese, up until the snow
buries the grass, then the deer browse taller plants.
I've no idea what critter is digging up that lawn, only thing I can
think is raccoons, perhaps... could also be possums. Set out a motion
detecting camera.

Squirrels and birds make more sense since I have seen them here before.
In fact, we saw a standing squirrel outside the kitchen window about a
couple weeks ago: https://i.imgur.com/g4lX3A4.jpg ...

Someone said https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPmyUdLrk9Q is a raccoon
that was recorded by an automatic camera at night almost last year.

So, it looks like the holes were from these suspects: squirrels, birds,
and/or raccoons. They were seen in the past sightings? We have not seen
any possums here yet. I did remember seeing one in a near by city
decades ago.

I forgot to mention rabbits too! Maybe they caused the holes?
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