By Cammomile
west sussex,
United Kingdom 
Very strange. My husband called me out to the garden this evening where my lilies had been emptied from a pot and the bulbs with flowers attached were lying in a neat circle round it. I have seen a blackbird in my other pots digging for worms, do you think this was down to him?
16 Jun, 2015
Answers
Exactly!
16 Jun, 2015
they are tenacious critters but not able to knock pots over. perhaps cat/dog knocked it over and he is just rummaging through for any vine weevil grubs/ants/worms or other edible critter.
17 Jun, 2015
The pot wasn't knocked over, it's quite heavy. I'm mystified.
17 Jun, 2015
Squirrels? An open garden I went to said they had trouble with pheasants digging up bulbs, but they were in the garden, so not likely to be that. I have mice which bury hazel nuts (in the Autumn) in every pot in the greenhouse and garden, but they only dig and bury, not scuff them out - not good when you have to get a hazel tree out of a pot of small plants though.
Other alternative is fox!
17 Jun, 2015
Thanks for all your suggestions. We've put some netting round the pot so nothing can get at it. If it's a human, I hope they get a hernia trying to pick up the pot!
17 Jun, 2015
I don't think this was down to him at all. What was up with him?
16 Jun, 2015