Got a bit of a baffling one for you....
My in laws were doing some work in their garden over the weekend. They were changing the compost in a huge half barrel they have with a rhodedendrum growing in it (needed more ericacious, excuse spelling..) It had not been done for quite a few years on this scale.
They came across something that looked like a big round white pebble in the soil which had them puzzled, Father in law squeezed a bit too hard and suddenly it cracked. It was a very very rotten egg. Stunk the whole place out, he had to wash all of his clothes and have a shower and the smell was still lingering.
About the size of a chicken egg but white, buried about 1/2 foot down in the soil in the pot yet they do not recall ever seeing the soil disturbed. Too big to be a domestic bird egg, too small to be a duck egg. The barrell is not sunken in the ground so is at least a foot off the ground.
How did it get there??
forgetful thieving squirrel??
I uncovered about a dozen germinating acorns in a patch of my potato bed while I was digging it over the weekend, and I can't think what else would have put them there, although I did think they were a bit deep...
the squirrels in my mum's garden love nothing more than to rootle about in her pots and bury peanuts in them, to her annoyance!
Yep, squirrel's my bet. :o
I found one that was buried by a fox on my plot
Mmmm - had not thought of a fox, they do have a fox's den in the bottom of the garden, so it could be them... Not sure how a squirrel would have picked it up to get it into the pot, it was quite a big egg.
I've seen the tiniest cutest ( >:() little baby squirrel with the most enormous apple in its mouth :o....yep! I'm still thinking squirrel 8)
Fox most likely.
Doh .... its a mole egg!