Foxes burying eggs

[Rob4]

October 2010 Berkshire. I emptied a large plastic pot that had runner beans growing in it. In the middle of the pot was a large egg ( bigger than a chicken egg). This egg was whole but cracked when my spade hit it. The yolk flowed. Was this egg buried by a fox ???

[Dogghound]

Most likely, foxes often bury eggs, possibly a goose, duck or swan egg.

[The Woodman]

I once had a dog kennel in the garden sheltered on two sides by a tall privet hedge. One of my white geese evicted the dog and built a superb nest in the kennel.

I noticed eggs were dissapearing but couldn't find them anywhere. A couple of years later when I moved the dog kennel there were several eggs under the base of the kennel that could only have taken been taken there by a rat.

I've always wondered if the eggs were taken from under the sitting goose. To get them over the lip of the kennel and round the side under the hedge and then through a smallish hole leading to the gap under the kennel must have taken some effort.

Not quite the same as burying them in a plant pot which sounds like the work of a fox.

[Words]

Definitely sounds like a fox.

[~T~]

What an eggciting descovery that must have been