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We don’t have squirrels (well@the very occasional red one but never in the garden) so what is digging up my just planted tulip bulbs????

#gardening
A terracotta pot with a hole dug in the soil on one side and 4 large tulip bulbs sitting in the side
are you in the UK? Foxes sometimes dig up bulbs for some reason
we’re in #Jersey and there are on foxes on the island!
no idea then! Cats burying poo?
Birds. Here in Germany Blackbirds and crows do that. I have thin green wire to protect my pots.
A pot with tulips in spring. On the left side you see the wire with which the bulbs were protected.
That's about the only thing I can think of! Or cats.... I'm just back home this morning from working away and I find a) it hasn't rained here for - weeks! so pots needed watering (surreal in November); the post-blight self-seeded November tomatoes are coming on nicely (wtf is that about???); and something has been digging up the bulbs I planted a couple of weeks ago...

Anyway. I can just replant. But planting with a mystified face on.
we had this with foxes 🦊.
that’s the thing: we don’t have anything I can think of which would do it…! Maybe magpies? But why????
I’m not sure why magpies would. Definitely no foxes there?
Nope: the chicken farmers see the occasional Pole Cat but otherwise no - no foxes or badgers (or - dare I say it - beavers 😮 )
is that a jersey thing?
Yeah - exactly. Just the nature of the islands, and when it got cut off by rising tides (from France and the English S Coast) at the start of the Holocene, some animals just didn't get here. Like Ireland and snakes! So we have no foxes or badgers.

I assume it's that holocene thing. But actually, I realise could just have been hunting too!
maybe the ones that did get there were then hunted!
Yes - as I wrote it I realised I didn't actually know this to be true for the big animals. Plants - yes. I'm a geographer really, so think in those terms, but sometimes there are much simpler answers!
I’ve no idea but if there were any they’d have been (un)fair game!
Yes - we do have bunnies, though never seen one in the garden. But maybe! That would be exciting!
birds can, cats can, foxes, badgers, all sorts. Covering the top with horticultural grit and or mesh over winter prevents them, lots of things just like an easy place to look for worms etc