What ever is this?

[Sonoftheheir]

On Wheat stubble?

Another field has near perfect circles on it.

 

[organicguy]

Where deer or badgers had trodden the crop?

 

[Sonoftheheir]

Where deer or badgers had trodden the crop?

Possibly deer? It is the furthest corner from civilisation. Not sure how they’d make perfect circles (not pictured)

 

[Badshot]

Animal tracks

 

[DRC]

Badgers played hell with our wheat this year.

 

[rose pilchett]

Badgers can do small perfect circles as well as all the other mess they make usually on the headlands

 

[Sonoftheheir]

Thanks everyone, makes sense. I’ve never seen it before.

 

[pine_guy]

Aliens

Or
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_circle_(arid_grass_formation)

 

[PSQ]

We found a circle in wheat years ago, about 2m round, with a notch across it like a capital 'Q'.
The old tractor man (and poacher) said it's where 2 buck hares have been chasing a doe around in circles. After a while the old buck stops running and sits back into the crop (making the nick) and watches the young buck and doe run round and round. When they're too knackered to run any further, the old buck re-enters the fray, and does what the young buck is now too tired to do!

Not sure if it's entirely true (old Albert was famous for his ripping yarns), but it had us in fits of laughter at the time

 

[Dry Rot]

Give Time Team a ring.

 

[Pieces_of_Eight]

The old tractor man (and poacher) said it's where 2 buck hares have been chasing a doe around in circles.
Not sure if it's entirely true (old Albert was famous for his ripping yarns), but it had us in fits of laughter at the time

He sounds like the character who told all the Pony Club kids that a Muntjac was a cross between a roe and a hare

Roe are known to chase each other round in circles during the rut (July/August).

 

[Sonoftheheir]

Aliens

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Alien wildlife such as deer and badgers that was never seen about these parts until these last few years.