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Doghouse Riley · 20-08-2011, 12:22 AM

[quote='Billy[_10_];933465']In article ,
"David Hare-Scott" wrote:
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"NORTHDUK" northduk(OMIT wrote in message
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In the last few days, an animal of some kind has been making its way
across my garden and those of the three houses next to me. It has
tunnelled under the fence leaving a hole that might allow a small
terrier to pass through. It makes small round holes in the lawn.
These are about one inch in diameter and roughly an inch deep.
Whether it does this in a search for food, I can't tell. They don't
look like tracks.

The animal seems to be nocturnal as the holes appear overnight and we
haven't yet seen the culprit. Does anyone have any idea what this
is?

I'd say the hole in the fence may be caused by a different animal.

The holes in the lawn are exactly the size that a grey squirrel would make, when they try to bury a nut.
They aren't bright enough to cover them up and a pigeon or another bird will usually later find and eat the nut. I get several of these holes in my lawn every year, because my wife insists on leaving peanuts out for them.

I close 'em up as you would a rather large pitch mark on a golf green.