we’re in #Jersey and there are on foxes on the island!

no idea then! Cats burying poo?

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.

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!