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Post by Tangaroa on Oct 31, 2019 15:24:30 GMT
Hey everyone, Im fairly certain this is a rabbit hole due to the size and shape - is it common for them to have excavated paths like this? Thanks. ![]()  |
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Post by rowanberry on Nov 1, 2019 10:27:41 GMT
Hello and welcome to Wabi, Tangaroa! I meant to reply to you yesterday, but we had a Halloween party and so it was a hectic day.
I thought I had some photos of a rabbit burrow, but I can't find them... it was just a simple hole in the ground, but when I did a Google search for images some of them do appear to have a path like the one in your photo.
None of the images were great, but this one seems to also have an excavated path, too.
This one does as well, but isn't dug out very much...
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Post by Tangaroa on Nov 1, 2019 15:08:39 GMT
Thanks rowanberry, I actually have been a member of Wabi for quite a few years but haven’t posted since 2016 it seems. I guess life got in the way 😂 I was fairly convinced it was a rabbit and your photo seems to confirm that. There appears to be some quite large rabbit holes with a fair amount of excavated material outside. Thought it might be a badger at first but the shape is definitely more rabbit.  |
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Post by rowanberry on Nov 1, 2019 19:54:13 GMT
Sorry about that! I didn't recognise your user name and failed to notice you'd posted before.  |
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Post by Tangaroa on Nov 4, 2019 11:33:45 GMT
No worries, thanks for welcoming me back though 😉
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Post by Cotham Marble on Nov 4, 2019 17:31:24 GMT
I think the 'path' may just be incidental rather than an integral feature. Burrowing is in part prospecting for a suitable medium, if the subsoil is too hard or too soft and/or unsupported the excavator has the choice of digging on to find something better or of starting somewhere else - in this case it looks maybe that the outer path was onto hard going, while the material supported by the tree roots was easier to excavate and/or more secure.
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