Badger or hedgehog?

[jemski]

What's doing this to my lawn...?

 

[Paddington]

Looks far too small for badger, don't know about hedgehog scrapes as all the hedgehogs have been eaten by badgers round here !

 

[Dry Rot]

Rabbits?

 

[jemski]

Definitely not rabbits, none nearby. It's in all the dog pee patches on the lawn.
I did think too small and too tidy for badger.
We've had a recent resurgence of hedgehogs in the last year, and I've seen one a few times in the lambing shed which is just 100m away.
So how do I stop it...? Feed them lots?

 

[Great In Grass]

We have a lot of hedgehogs with no lawn damage but we do feed them, mealworm is their favourite.

 

[Man_in_black]

So how do I stop it...?

Any travellers camps nearby?? Locally reared organic hedgehog!

 

[jemski]

Any travellers camps nearby?? Locally reared organic hedgehog!

Nooooo! I love hedgehogs!

 

[GrannyAching]

That does look like badger to me. Ours plough up patches of the fields in little patches like that for grass roots in the spring. I don't know how you stop it unless you want to feed them or fence like mad. If you have pig nut grass in pasture they go nuts for it. The old sett we had ploughed three acres for it one year and wrote it off for two years.

 

[Deereone]

Mole?

 

[Princess Pooper]

Yes they go for our pig nuts too. Badgers will be getting hungry with lack of rain sending worms deep and the young will be coming out foraging now as well. If you have badgers your hedgehogs might not be around for long...

 

[Man_in_black]

Nooooo! I love hedgehogs!

So do they...........wi' gravy!!

 

[Landy Nick]

Rooks.
Mate is a gardener on a big country house and the Rooks wreck the lawns digging up grubs.

 

[jemski]

Rooks.
Mate is a gardener on a big country house and the Rooks wreck the lawns digging up grubs.

This is done overnight.

 

[Landy Nick]

This is done overnight.

Dunno then, unless Rooks are out there before the crack of sparrows.

 

[Pan mixer]

This is done overnight.

Rooks with head torches?

Hedgehogs I reckon.

 

[GrannyAching]

If you have badgers your hedgehogs might not be around for long...

Our seem to co-exist quite well - hedgehogs more round the house and near fields and badgers other end of the farm. Foxes dig for roots if they are hungry don't they?

 

[Jhabc]

We have exactly the same and it is Badgers. I know for sure because I have driven in late at night and witnessed them doing it.

 

[Hilly]

Badger. Seen a badger an a hedgehogg fighting the other day ,
























The hedgehogg won on points ,,,, boom boom.

 

[Danllan]

If it hadn't been stated that this happens at night, I would have said it was definitely squirrels - still could be if it occurs in the evening / early morning.

 

[yellowbelly]

We get holes like that - ours are caused by rooks digging out Chafer beetle grubs.