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Mystery in planter!

(15 Posts)
aquagran Mon 31-Mar-25 19:47:36

My son in law now tells me that he found amazing things buried in pots when he worked at a nursery! All buried by foxes he presumed!😂

JamesandJon33 Mon 31-Mar-25 17:10:46

Just found a complete ,round bird feeder fat ball in a planter. !!!

aquagran Thu 27-Mar-25 06:45:20

Thanks everybody, that’s amazing.

Unfortunately the egg wasn’t made of chocolate lixy 😂.

lixy Wed 26-Mar-25 21:17:33

Sounds like the Easter Bunny is busy early!

monk08 Wed 26-Mar-25 17:37:26

The fox that buries them in our garden gets them from a neighbour 2 doors down he puts them out for it. The amazing thing is he jumps two 4ft fences without breaking them before they are buried.

Grannylynj Wed 26-Mar-25 17:32:08

I expect he got it from a hen 😀

Babs03 Wed 26-Mar-25 17:28:55

Foxes love eggs and can carry one gently in their jaws. Is a real prize.

JamesandJon33 Wed 26-Mar-25 17:24:14

I think I posted exactly the same question a while ago. Digging our potato patch we found a nice brown hen’s egg. Answer mostly came down on the side of a fox.

merlotgran Wed 26-Mar-25 10:48:20

I’ve had exactly the same thing. I can only guess at foxes.

Shelflife Wed 26-Mar-25 10:19:08

A fox will be the culprit! I once found a whole chicken carcass buried in my garden.

Aldom Wed 26-Mar-25 09:41:55

Don't apologise aquagran. I only mentioned the other thread because of the fox. I've not personally found an egg buried in the garden etc.
Yes, it's a mystery as to where the egg came from in the first place isn't it?

aquagran Wed 26-Mar-25 09:37:50

Oh, sorry , I didn’t see that thread. We haven’t had foxes for a year or so, although that seems the only solution. But, where did the fox get a whole, perfectly good egg?

Aldom Wed 26-Mar-25 09:31:59

There was a similar thread a few weeks ago and GN posters thought it was probably a fox burying the egg.

Grannybags Wed 26-Mar-25 09:30:02

Pesky burrowing chickens...!

Maybe a squirrel? I get baby oak trees in my tubs from the acorns they've buried and haven't come back for

aquagran Wed 26-Mar-25 09:23:02

Yesterday, when clearing out a small planter, I pulled out the old plants and started to dig over the compost. My small fork hit something solid about ten centimetres deep. Add first I thought it was a piece of flower pot, but it was an egg…a brown hens egg! My fork had opened the top and the white ran out. I could see the yolk inside.
How did it get there?
Where did it come from?