Small holes in my yard

19 years ago

I am curious as to what these holes are in my yard. They're no bigger than a quarter and seem to be quite deep. As an experiment, and as part of cleaning my well, I let a hose run down one of these holes for 24 hours, checking it every hour to see if it had overflowed. It never did. The whole time I checked my neighbors yards and all around but no flooding anywhere, absolutely no sign of where the water went. So what small creature was ingenious enough that it could burrow a tunnel that could take that much water and not flood? This just amazes me, the water had to have gone somewhere!

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jroot
19 years ago
snakes?

or chipmunks?

I'm thinking the former. We have them here too.
ahorselover
19 years ago
I have the same thing in my yard here in GA. Do you see a pattern or are they randomly spread throughout the yard? I see discussions that grubs dig holes but my holes seem too big for that. The holes are perfectly round, about the size of a quarter or even a half dollar.What about crawldads? Someone on another site suggested that.
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lee53011
19 years ago
Many times holes are caused by animals LOOKING for grubs. Those would be the small holes that are not very deep. A hole that won't fill with water would have to be a chipmunk hole or similar.

Lee
redshoe
19 years ago
It could be the hole of the 13 lined ground squirel. I have those in my yard, those little devils are cute and they don't damage my garden. They do eat lots of bugs and weed seeds.
poppydog
19 years ago
Have you seen Meerkat Manor on Animal Planet? Ok, unless you live in Africa, I'm just kidding.