A mystery

If you find tiny nut saplings growing in pots or in the lawn, it was probably a bird from the crow family that put the nut there.

My neighbour lost one shoe from a pair of Birkenstocks left by the back door. Had to be a fox.

Yes.

A fox once ate one and a half of my small granddaughter’s sandals, which she had left in the garden. They will eat anything!

How interesting, I didn't know foxes buried things. I am still wondering how a large number of hazel nuts found their way into my plant pots. I know that squirrels bury things but I'm surrounded by houses and have never seen any squirrels here.

Liz08 🤣😂🤣

Foxes will steal anything. A couple of summers ago I was passing our bedroom window and saw a fox about to enter the kitchen. I shouted but it just looked at me. I happened to have a new boxed tube of toothpaste in my hand so aimed it near the fox to scare it.
I rushed down stairs to find the fox gone - and my toothpaste!
I kept looking for that fox with it's cheeky white smile but never saw him again 😁

BlueBelle

But the question I m asking is how would a fox / rat or whatever get a shop bought egg to hide would it go indoors and open the fridge .
I can understand a fox could get an egg out of a hen house or hen enclosure but then it wouldn’t have a lion on it 🤣🤣🤣

What are the supermarkets' bins like near you?

Here any sensible fox can go "dumpster diving" after closing time and find plenty of good food, as can homeless or impecunious humans.

Deedaa

I love the thought of the Easter bunny Silverbrooks but just as well you found it.I expect chocolate would be as poisonous for a fox as it would for a dog.

Yes, chocolate is toxic to foxes.

Bunny was in a sturdy box. This is the product:

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The box was a bit soggy where it had been in the soil but I could see the expiry date which was recent. It was encased in a bed of straw and in good condition.

Nothing else other than a fox could have put it there unless I have squirrels working in pairs like removal men!

I should say a fox. We have a 6' 6" fence andI have see it leapt on top of it with ease. I also saw one trotting up our close with something in its mouth and it turned out to be an egg and it buried it in a neighbours flower pot. I've had several buried in thr large container in my front garden. Supposedly they adore eggs.

A few years ago I found a chicken carcass buried in my rose garden, definitely the work of a fox.

I wonder if people put stamped eggs in their compost bins along with their household food scraps. Perhaps the foxes steal them from there.

It could very well have got it from a house or maybe they were past their sell by date and someone put them out for wild animals. A neighbour found a whole unwrapped pack of butter buried in her garden which was obviously the work of a fox. Foxes bury food just like dogs bury bones so they can return later.

I love the thought of the Easter bunny Silverbrooks but just as well you found it.I expect chocolate would be as poisonous for a fox as it would for a dog.

But the question I m asking is how would a fox / rat or whatever get a shop bought egg to hide would it go indoors and open the fridge .
I can understand a fox could get an egg out of a hen house or hen enclosure but then it wouldn’t have a lion on it 🤣🤣🤣

People who feed foxes regularly often leave out whole eggs for them.

I once found a whole egg in an outdoor plant container. It had been neatly buried, the surrounding plants and bulbs had not been disturbed. The Foxy Gentleman buried it very skilfully.

Rats I think
Have you never read Charlotte's Web?

I hate to tell you,*JamesandJon33*, but the fat balls can attract =rats.

The fox gets nothing from us. Squirrels, apple cores etc and the birds have fat balls I don’t put ‘food’ out, leftovers etc, as they attract rats.

So where is the fox getting ‘stamped eggs’ from do you mean he comes in your house opens up the fridge and takes a lion stamped egg out, leaves the house and buries it ????
Or
Are you throwing whole lion stamped eggs away in an easily ‘got to’ bin?????

We have this too. Eggs in the ground and in pots. Horrid if you put a trowel through a very old egg. I am sure it's foxes.

Quite obviously, you have underground hens, JamesandJon33. Keep digging and you may be able to stock up on eggs.

JamesandJon33

Would a fox bury them though? To go back for?

I have known a fox that had raided a henhouse and carefully buried the hens he, or more likely she could not eat in one go, up to their necks in the ground. This way she kept them alive and fresh until she and her cubs wanted them.

It did not work because the hens' owner found them and rescued them.

So, I find it entirely believable that a fox might bury an egg that was surplus to immediate requirement intending to fetch it in a day or so.

Yes we have seen him in the garden burying and retrieving them.

A fox has stolen or scavenged it from somewhere. It must have managed to find a way in. My neighbours have a tall Leylandii at the rear of their garden. Foxy likes to sit on top and sunbathe.

Last year, I found a boxed Fortnum's Chocolate Bunny buried in the big tub where I grow spuds. I can only assume it was "acquired" from an Easter Egg hunt. It was in-date and delicious!