What is digging holes in my garden?

[CTO]

Evening all,

Over the last two days, these weird marks have started appearing in one specific part of my lawn.

It almost looks as though something has been scratching/clawing at the surface.

Yesterday’s the grass/soil was disturbed, so I raked it over. This morning the marks are back, and if anything, worse..

Pics below (not very good ones)







The last one is where I pulled up some of the grass to see what was beneath… answer is some kind of scratch mark/small hole maybe?

So, learned Percy Throwers of Pistonheads…

What’s occurring here? A band of boisterous badgers? A delinquent deer with some buried acorns, or is it rabbits running rampant?

I have plenty of all of the above, and some frolicking foxes..

Cheers all

[The Three D Mucketeer]

Untidy moles ?

[Digger]

Apologies, I was a tad bored last night.

[Kwackersaki]

You may have Chafer grubs and the birds are digging them up. I had them all over the lawn once and it completely ruined it.

[CTO]

Digger said:

Apologies, I was a tad bored last night.

User name computes

[saknog]

First thought someone’s hammered frozen sausages in the ground for wild life to dig up, upset anyone recently?

[CTO]

saknog said:

First thought someone s hammered frozen sausages in the ground for wild life to dig up, upset anyone recently?

Only the usual suspects really
My wife
My wife’s mum
My mum
My family
My friends
Most of my workmates
The dog
The man down the road with the silly hat
The birds
Elon Musk

That’s just the ones off the top of my head

[Dog Biscuit]

Rats

[CTO]

Dog Biscuit said:

Rats

Haven’t upset them tbf….

In seriousness, why rats and why there ?

[motco]

Badgers did it to mine. Watch to the end as they say, you'll see one of the holes they left.

Badger digging

It even had the temerity to crap in the holes occasionally!

[NiceCupOfTea]

Foxes.

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

Kwackersaki said:

You may have Chafer grubs and the birds are digging them up. I had them all over the lawn once and it completely ruined it.

This, or leather jackets.

Pull up the scrapings & see the bugs wriggling underneath.

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

Although the grass doesn't look too bad. The grubs kill the grass as well as the animals digging them up.

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

Chafer grubs in my garden

[PhilboSE]

Badgers

[Mr Magooagain]

Is that a raised deck? Or a shed? Could well be rats.

[bigdom]

Badgers did similar to neighbours lawns, Magpies did that to my front lawn about 6 months ago.

[Piersman2]

Any squirells around? Could be burying nuts for winter... they've made my lawn look like that a few times in the past, before getting the dog anyways.

[Richard-D]

The picture in the OP is classic vole/field mouse. We get plenty of them, tunnel just under the surface that you can tread down.

[DonkeyApple]

Looks like something digging for food but not something particularly large. If daytime then in would be a bird like a Corvid but if overnight then one would assume it's a hedgehog.