We have put it down to foxes on our lawn and if you go to Discover Wildlife.com Who has been eating your lawn, it gives you loads of possibilities.

Ive had this problem for a few months now. I originally thought it might've been squirrels but what would they be
digging up ???

I was also suspicious of foxes...i have a family of them and i thought mum might be bringing the cubs down to show them how to get their own food.

So i stuck with the foxes theory. This was confirmed this week when there were several deposits of fox poo around the dug up area. I can only assume they're after leather jackets.

Cammomile....just read that article and it would seem my theory was spot on. Thanks.

I get it in the spring and around now....it is foxes. They can dig up over twenty of these holes in my lawn in the spring. I was told they are digging up worms for their young.

I have seen them mining for worms after rain in the daytime in my garden in town. Sometimes in more rural places it is badgers. But foxes scrat with paws together so I would go for foxes too. One calls round and eats fallen birdseed too. Cub foxes love play scratching at the lawn too.

They are looking for leatherjackets and get loads out of the lawn so it seems the holes (which can be filled in easily) are better than leatherjackets.

I'd say foxes as worms have more raw protene than rump steak.

Anyone for a nice nourishing lunch at Nosey's??

Not if 'nourishing' makes me look like his Avatar! ;o)

I was very interested in your comments Cammomile. I have been wondering if I had leatherjackets in my lawn. I have put a dish for sitting a plant pot on face down on the lawn. Nothing so far so I have moved it to a new spot.

Well if I had to eat wriggling brown spagbol full of soil I just mite look like my avatar lol but there's know accounting for taste lol.

I think you look very handsome, Nosey - just a trifle ..... thin?

Would't leatherjackets have hatched by now? I believe the new eggs are laid in October by 'daddy-long-legs'.

Shux thanx nariz lol. Those leather jackets are on a foxes menu I'd still say it's worms there after as there always there, there bigger and easy to catch.

I agree Nosey.

Thanx Linda x x.

Thanks for your answers. Going back to the original question, I was advised to pee on the lawn to possibly stop the fox coming into the back lawn. I have done this, in darkness I add, and it seems to have worked, but it has now gone to the front lawn, and is digging deeper - see the new pic - down to stony base!
I may use an old container to attempt to add the required liquid to the front lawn.

Go to a hair dressers and get some hair clippings and get some old tights. Put the hair in a few foot end of the tights and hang them round your gardens perimeter. This does the same as wee or better.

You obviously have a tasty garden. Don't let this get out of hand or your neighbours will call you the eccentric who pees on his/her garden in the night! LOL.