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was due to meet some friends up the plot today but far too slippery under foot up there to be safe so rain stopped play.
Whilst there though I did check the raised beds to find yet another egg (this time eaten) and a whole mass of foxes footprints all over the new beds.

What I find difficult to work out is how the foxes are getting eggs that have a lion on them !! Pinched from a coop I could understand, but lion stamped !!!

That is bizarre. Don't suppose somebody took a couple of hard boiled eggs up to the plot to eat a working lunch while they dug and forgot to eat them?
Do you think anybody living around your allotment area is actually feeding the foxes?

Hi Primrose,
Sometimes it is a fresh egg you find. It is unusual to find one eaten as they are often found on the site buried somewhere. Then there is the golf balls, which I am told foxes take thinking they are eggs. Again they are buried.

The one we are not sure about is the walnuts, still in their cases. Never see any squirrels around so ruled them out. Is it foxes or could it be rats. Don't know.

Don't think anybody is feeding them eggs, everyone seems to think they have been stolen.

We've had plot holders feeding the ruddy beasts!

peter wrote:We've had plot holders feeding the ruddy beasts!

Glad to say I haven't found any of ours that are that daft

Of course it could be Cadbury Creme Eggs trying a test dump of wonky egg shells. I gather lots of people have been complaining about the "re-engineering" of their chocolate quality since Kraft took them over .

Vision of foxes wandering around at night talking to each other in 'foxese' asking 'how do you eat yours'

Personally I am in the camp that has moved more and more away from Cadburys since Kraft took over.

Now they are changing Fruit & Nut to cheaper ingredients so thats another one to step away from

I knew a guy who had a dog that he used to let roam most mornings the dog very often brought a box of eggs back with him, after a lot of investigation it was found the eggs where left on a doorstep twice a week by a milkman it was part of an order the person had with the milk company maybe the Fox is doing the same

Good idea Robo but milk deliveries around these parts are virtually gone. there is only one company delivers around here now and that's dairy crest. Not sure they do eggs etc these days.

One of the reasons I have given up watching Spring/Summer/Autumn Watch (apart from the basic childishness) is their inability to recognise the term vermin.
Town foxes - vermin.
Town badgers - vermin.
Rats - vermin.
Tree Rats (aka Grey Squirrels) - vermin.
Perhaps it is a sad thing that humans at the top (probably) of the evolutionary tree think they can kill those on the lower branches but it has to be recognised we can't tolerate everything.

Geoff you are not alone in thinking the presenters of these seasonal/watch programmes are pathetically childish. I did think that when they got rid of the giggling Kate Humble and the totally unfunny Bill Odie things would improve but alas the same childish format has survived despite Michaela Strachan's efforts in maintaining some maturity. It is a shame that the BBC do not now employ true countrymen such as the likes of Phil Drabble, Jack Hargreaves and Robin Page to present such programmes. The trouble would be that these true countrymen would tell it as it is and not paint nature as Walt Disneyland.

Barney

Talking today to a farmhands son & publican, he'd shot two hundred pigeons on oilseed rape last weekend and we were chatting around that, I mentioned a woman at my vets with an injured pigeon and he roared with laughter, not at my tale, he had a better one, by far.

His pub garden had a pigeon problem, crapping on everything, so he'd had a cull and a couple dropped in neighbouring gardens. One was gratefully received, the other, the lady of the house said her husband had just taken it to the vets for treatment!

I don't like to see any animal suffer, vermin or not, but the vets is very extreme to say the least....i prefer to dispatch them very quickly.

Nice to wake up to it being dry, especially after the last few mornings.

Indeed it is nice, good morning OH

Tried a different variety of Leek this year, Elefant. Claims long standing harvest from Oct to Mar.
So much for the blurb, needs digging out now.
Chucked a load out today and bagged them for removal from plot. Gone soft and rotten , absolutely stinks !!