Holes in lawn

That picture doesn’t look like chafer grubs to me, we had them last year.

It's almost certainly a dinner hole.

It could be made by any number of animals, as it's difficult to guage the size.

I would be inclined to do a night watch to view and photograph the culprit if I was unable to set up a video to record the night action.

Do let us know what it was.

We have the same in our garden. I looked it up on line and I think they are made by voles. I put mouse traps next to the holes but caught nothing, so have removed them. They are still there and there are more so what to do, if anything.

We get this too. With us it is foxes.
Next door will insist on feeding them but it is our lawn they destroy!

This is interesting. Happening to us too. Complete mystery. Never happened before, as others are saying too This thread has suggested some possibilities. H thought badgers. No droppings but scratch marks. Ours is a 'shallow' layer of grass/moss.

We experienced something similar a few weeks ago; there was a mound of very sandy soil alongside a "burrow" that was maybe 2 inches diameter across the opening. I flooded this with water and the following morning all the wet earth had been excavated again. We left it alone for a few days and then scraped the loose soil back into the hole.

Fast forward two weeks and whilst I was watering the veggie patch I discovered a small rodent basking in the sunshine on the garden path, in fact I almost stepped on it! I left it alone and then noticed another one scurrying towards the lavender patch. Seemingly they were voles. We have no infestation in the shed or garage so we've left them alone, everything has to live somewhere after all.

We had a problem like this and it turned out to be badgers who were digging for crane fly larvae. Although the lawn was a bit of a mess we had hardly any daddy long legs in the house that year!

My first thought was a Hedgehog. They dig for worms and slugs. As its been quite dry they may have to dig deeper to fond them.

Might be foxes or badgers looking for chafer grubs - we have chafer grubs under our turf but nothing has dug for them - yet. There are brownish/yellow areas on our lawn which is probably from chafer grubs eating the grass roots.

Thank you all for your replies. No definite answer or solution.....
The holes still keep on appearing - between a dozen and 20. They are about 3” or 4” deep, some less so and between 1” and 4” diameter.
I’m going to mention this on a local neighbourhood site and see if any of our neighbors have experienced similar.
Will report back if I find out more.
Cheers, everyone

Squirrels - we have holes all over our lawn.......sometimes they even remember to put a Conker or beech nut in them! ?

The holes look too big for birds, and too small for badgers, possibly rats, if so rat droppings are easily identifiable However I would bet on foxes, how about a vixen with cubs, as anyone with chickens knows, a vixen feeding cubs is very persistent.

We have holes and this evening I watched two magpies and a squirrel in different parts of the lawn (where holes have appeared) so think they are the culprits. My dog and cat were going mad at the back door and I couldn't understand why until I looked out to see the lawn being attacked ?

Thanks again.
No evidence of the culprits as yet ....
If it is foxes, anyone know of a deterrent?