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Have recently been finding eggs around my plot -mostly whole and buried shallowly - but also some empty shells just lying on the surface. They are large hen's eggs without a stamp on, is this a fox do you think?
My nearest neighbour has found some too, along with a couple of raw sausages. No sign of frying pans as yet!

Yep, sounds like a fox to me!

Jerry

What's this fox called, Jamie Oliver?

It's ether a fox or the squirrels have gone carnivore

I found an egg while out walking the dogs on a piece of local open ground. What I don't understand is where foxes get date stamped eggs from.

Beccy, that sounds more like the burberry wearing two legged urban fox, wot frows, like, eggs, like, at like, fings, like.

It may be a fox although I'm sceptical, they are usually hit & run merchants, or grubbing about for worms grubs etc. It is more likely rats, as a boy on my dad's farm we sometimes found a rats nest with a lot of hoarded eggs. Try some rat bait to see if the rats take it.

Thanks Gloworm, I think you may have solved it, apparently there have been a large number of dead rats about the site this last week so it seems that someone has identified a problem and dealt with it, though I'm not sure that any of the dog owners would be happy to think that there might be poison about.

Gloworm, we had an elderly gent on site a few years ago who had given up growing and just used his plot to feed foxes, this was at one end and I am at the middle.

Until I found out what he was doing I could not understand why I kept on digging up pieces of meat from my plot.

It was the foxes cacheing the oversupply.

His plot was like the Somme, bones, blood, scraps etc, the compost bin was full of bones. Once the council had warned him to stop, so did the buried bits of meat and the number of crows hanging round the site declined also.

Regards, Peter.

Try http://www.derbyfoxes.org/problems.htm

Peter, that's interesting, I suppose foxes normally are always on the edge of hunger so do not get round to burying a surplus, their surplus is normally left on site when they just bite the heads off numerous chickens.