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[Closed] Who lives in a house like this? Wildlife identification please

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I was strimming the Southampton Bike Park and one jump had all these holes in it. The entrance is about the size of a ping pong ball. My first thought was mice but do they live in colonies?

The jump
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Some close ups of the entrances.

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The pics were taken after I had strimmered the vegetation away so not much left in the way of foot prints. If it had been a canal bank I would have said Sand Martins as there didn't appear to be paths in or out of them but the strimming might have destroyed the evidence.

Any Thoughts?


 
Posted : 28/06/2015 8:04 pm
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Wasps?


 
Posted : 28/06/2015 8:05 pm
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Voles. Just like the little b*****ds in my lawn.


 
Posted : 28/06/2015 8:06 pm
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Sand Martins?


 
Posted : 28/06/2015 8:36 pm
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Too big for wasps.

Voles are possible as are sand martins but the birds are less likely.

Anyone know what they are talking about ?


 
Posted : 28/06/2015 8:47 pm
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Anyone know what they are talking about ?

T

Does the Pope shit in the woods?


 
Posted : 28/06/2015 8:50 pm
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rabbits?

Hmm on second thoughts, probably too small for rabbits.


 
Posted : 28/06/2015 8:56 pm
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Rats


 
Posted : 28/06/2015 8:58 pm
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Meerkats


 
Posted : 28/06/2015 9:00 pm
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Swarm of moles?


 
Posted : 28/06/2015 9:02 pm
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Minions?


 
Posted : 28/06/2015 9:02 pm
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Baby robins.


 
Posted : 28/06/2015 9:03 pm
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unexploded mortar shells


 
Posted : 28/06/2015 9:04 pm
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Snakes. Definitely snakes.


 
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Too big for wasps.

Nonsense.

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Posted : 28/06/2015 9:07 pm
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Rats


 
Posted : 28/06/2015 9:17 pm
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Is it dampish?

Geoducks like moist environments...

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Perhaps giant earthworms, but AFAIK, you only find them down south:

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Quite cuddly it seems:

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Apparently there's all kinds of big stuff going on underground


 
Posted : 28/06/2015 9:23 pm
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Rats? similar holes in the planters near our bins until they were exterminated and the residents reeducated on feeding the fing birds.


 
Posted : 29/06/2015 2:10 am
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Posted : 29/06/2015 2:35 am
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Surely worth mugging a GoPro off one of the riders and setting it up overnight?


 
Posted : 29/06/2015 7:06 am
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Rats.


 
Posted : 29/06/2015 7:22 am
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Call the police they'll look into them.


 
Posted : 29/06/2015 9:23 am
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pretty sure that's a Flocking of Polar Bears.


 
Posted : 29/06/2015 9:26 am
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Holar bears?


 
Posted : 29/06/2015 9:35 am