Mystery food thief!!!

[gardenrelaxer]

Wonder if anyone has any ideas about this one ...

We have a bird feeding station in the garden that attracts the usual small garden birds (and pretty woodpecker) along with a few pesky squirrels and the inevitable pigeons and magpies. Yesterday, we noticed that the cage that contains a fat block had fallen to the ground (or had it been pushed??) but when we came to hang it back up a little while later, it had completely disappeared! The garden has a 5 foot wall around it, apart from on one side where there is a hedge with a few small gaps. Surely a squirrel could not have managed to pick it up and take the whole thing? What else could have had the strength? We've searched the whole garden and we can't find it so it is a real puzzle ...

[Wild-Woman]

Perhaps a playful Fox? I had a pair of muddy trainers that I'd left out on the patio, taken into next doors garden and chewed up! We have a 6ft fence.
That's the only creature I can think of that would have the strength to lift an object that size.

[tufftie]

If it's just one of the little wire ones that you put a square of fat in it could also be a crow - I've seen jackdaws try but they don't get very far. We have lots of squirrels in our garden and while they take a nibble from it they've never made off with it. If it was daytime I'd say Fox or the main culprit at night is Badgers - we've watched both do it!

[Mike B]

Or have you got 'funny' neighbours?
Silly comment I know, but I was once accused of attracting vermin to the garden and strange things happened to my feeders.