We have a digger creating shoreline havoc. There are about 10 or 12 of these narrow channels dug into the shoreline. They only occur at a long stretch of where the shore is flat and only slightly higher than the water level. The offendor is digging only to a certain point, then stopping. It's into alot of clay, but the soil is saturated so it probably eases the excavation somewhat.
Almost all of these channels start from the water and move inland. The excavated soils are piled up right at the water's edge as it apparently pushes it between it's hind legs...kinda like a dog digging a hole. There is one instance where it started on the shore and started digging a trench toward the water...then stopped just short of breaking thru the shoreline and into the pond.
I checked each one and there is no tunnel, cave, or burrow at the end of the trench. It just stops. They vary in length from 3' to 6'. Some of them branch off into a "Y" as the critter decided to give up on the trench it was digging and go back to the start and veer off in a different direction.
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This a CSI close up of a paw print. It almost looks like a big dog print. Heck, it might be one of the neighbor's dogs for all I know.
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My only thought is maybe the crayfish we seeded a couple of years ago had burrowed up into the bank, the excavating critter sniffed it out and started working on lunch.
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