dang yall it's plain as nose on your face, CRAWDADS did it

With no other information provided by the OP, I concur. Crawdads.
I am embarrassed that I did not think of that sooner.

We’ve had rain here so the tracks have been washed away. Over the next few days I will post the traffic in the area.

With that sand there is no way a critter could have left that area without leaving tracks. The only tracks that were bigger than a Fox was from the lab that was with me when I found it.

The find was just left of this trail.

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I have had several cats kill coons in my traps before, and cover up what they didn't eat. I have never seen them bury them; only cover them with brush----lots of brush. I have caught several of them on their return.

Lots of bobcats in Pa., West Virginia and Virginia, I cant imagine there aren't bobcats in Maryland by now. What's holding them back from traveling into Maryland? I would think there are cats in most if not every state by now

Typical covering of a beaver carcass around here. Some are covered better; a few, are not covered. Bobcat was caught the next day.

They may be in Maryland, Western Maryland, Southern Maryland, but there is no sign of them on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.

Gray fox?

X2 that was my first thought too.

That was from when I tried my hand at chicken farming.I think I might have planted them too deep??

I’m under the impression a fox will completely bury its kill. As for marking, a book published about 30 years ago, “Red Fox, The Cat-Like Canine”, by J. David Henry, says a fox will urine mark an empty hole, not one with food in it. Having read this always made me wonder why so many advocated using urine (as a suspicion remover, maybe?) at a dirt hole set. The use of urine is telling the next visitor the cache is empty and to not waste it’s time. Yet, dirt holes have taken countless fox over the years, suggesting fox haven’t read the book. Or, they’re getting caught in the couple seconds they’re spending at the set, determining if that the hole is empty or not.

We have bobcats in southern Minnesota but in decades of trapping, I’ve never seen one. If cats and coyotes don’t cover the caches very well, that’s probably what cached this bird.

I saw a red fox cover a rabbit with grass a few years ago. Until that point I would not have thought they did it. It looked like LAtrapper's pic but it was a rabbit and it was covered almost completely.

You may have never seen one but surely you’ve seen tracks or scat?