What’s taking place here and why?

Dry land otter set...

shellfish oil poured in a hole and buried and a fox is digging

Something was buried there weeks ago but it wasn’t shellfish oil and yes, foxes are digging there.

Turtle eggs....snapping, mud, or slider's eggs.

Little chilly for turtle eggs.

Not when they were layed by the turtle.....a few months ago.

That could be true, no shells around like normally is when a nest is raided though.

Some pretty good guesses!

Don't believe turtle eggs overwinter....

You don't have any mob hits there do you?, lol

You need to bury the bodies deeper, HT.

Sandy turtle egg laying sites are scavenged year-round down here. Critters dig up the egg shell and any that didn't hatch.

and plant some endangered wildflowers over it.....

Earthworms, grubs, etc may be what the foxes are after.

They do.
Even in NY

lol




This is true.

I can say it is neither of these or turtle eggs.

Digging up geoduck

It's gotta be an old set location....they're digging at the lure/urine odors in the soil.

… I don’t think hobbie even knows

My guess also SW I see a coyote track to the left and what appear to be human prints on the lower side of the holes

Someone pooped there and buried it. The fox are digging for the fermented peanuts.

Corn! They are after the corn!

I do know and it ain’t an old set location but It’s gonna be a new one. lol

Nuh-uh

No yotes here and those are my tracks. I’ve been filling them in daily.

dobbins lure on tainted beaver meat

There is nothing of a beaver there.

Left over soft shell crabs

Someone digging clams.

You folks are over thinking it. Trapping season opened here a little over a month ago. I target foxes and that is it this time of year. What would be in the ground that I would know is there?

It’s that simple and yes they want at it that bad. They can smell it 18” down and even greater for every inch of dirt they scratch off.

Bacon grease

fox carcass

Chicken bone or feathers.

A dead mouse

Pocket gopher carcass.

Do you always bury your carcasses Hobbie?

The only sand like that around here is on golf courses lol

I do for the most part. I do leave those that look sketchy on location but if they come home and get processed, they end up in the ground.

Skunk or a porkupine.