[pdblake]

Hen's eggs that is. My plot has been covered over since late autumn but now I've come to do the winter digging I keep digging up hen's eggs. Four or five in the last few weeks. Some have had the red lion stamp on too, so they are shop bought. There is no sign of digging, the ground is flat and walked on, all smooth where the groundsheets have been.

My thought is foxes, but I can't see how they buried them without me noticing. They are all whole as well, none broken so far.

Any ideas?

[mumofstig]

It was foxes that were doing it on our site. One of the OBs set up a camera, just to find out 

[pdblake]

Yeah that's what I thought. There's someone in the houses nearby who feeds them apparently. Maybe they leave whole eggs out 

Unless they've started shopping at the local tesco.

[mumofstig]

Unless they've started shopping at the local tesco.

[AnneB]

They do bury stuff to return to later. The other year I was earthing up my spuds and kept uncovering slices of white bread.

[Potterer]

I had the same - only one egg but couldn’t understand how it was in seemingly undisturbed ground. Very clever foxes!

[JayG]

Apparently doesn't always have to be something edible - a few years ago a fox buried an old gardening glove under one of my shallot plants. 

When I removed the glove and replanted the shallot, it came back more than once to dig up the same long suffering plant (presumably thinking 'I'm absolutely sure I buried it here!')
 
(In subsequent years they have sometimes caused quite a bit of damage, especially when the cubs start digging holes at random and using my enviromesh cage as a trampoline!  )

[Aunt Sally]

Apparently doesn't always have to be something edible

Or even something dead

A couple of years ago a plot holder on our site had one of his hens taken by a fox.  He noticed some freshly disturbed soil  near the hen run and found the hen buried there, just about still alive.  It recovered fully.