Is this Wild Boar damage
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boar & deer
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Could well be badgers if its boar there would be slots everywhere
Swedish
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Riding dirt bikes?
Turf war?
Looks very similar to areas in the Forest of Dean and how the fields around the woods on my permission in Sussex looked until the poachers had all the boar.
The rolled back sections of turf look typical boar or pig activity.
The Badgers seem to target and dig out specific spots, presumably bee and wasp nests, in our little paddocks.
But as already advised by others, look for trotter marks.
Alan
The rolled back sections of turf look typical boar or pig activity.
The Badgers seem to target and dig out specific spots, presumably bee and wasp nests, in our little paddocks.
But as already advised by others, look for trotter marks.
Alan
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Big_Sparky
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You want to be careful - it could be the sheep eating big cat from the thread the other week...... If I was you I’d hang a few golfers from a tree and see if they vanish in the night - definitely a cat then!! 
Looks like boar to me !
Fursty Ferret
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I agree.....seen this before. The way the top layer of the turf is rolled over like that. Badgers all day long (or night!) I'd say!
John Gryphon
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Wild pigs do exactly the same thing in their pursuit of cockchafer grubs
It is the extent and intensity of the damage that makes me think of herding animals doing it...the turf rolled over is common to both. I have seen 3 or 4 badgers at a time at work in the field beside us on a few occasions with thermal or photon but they were spread out 100 yards or so apart rather than working as a team in close proximity. The boar that @Erik Hamburger and I saw in the Forest of Dean through his thermal were definitely in a close cluster family gang.
Alan
It’s what the girls play, and leave the men to rugby
john_little
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Those darned Detectorists been out again!
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