I love coming across this kind of thing.

Let me know if the pictures don’t show.

OK so what is it?

Cat buried a bird

Fox kill and then buried what it didn’t eat less than 10yds away.

Sure looks like cat work to me.

We don’t have bobcats here.

Many moons ago I was squirrel hunting behind my parents place. It was the first encounter I’d ever had with a fox. It hurried a rabbit in the hollow base of an old dead tree. Had I not seen it with my own eyes, I’d never believed it. Didn’t realize they cached their food like that.

You know that’s why the dirt hole works?

But the real question that gets everyone all fired up is did he mark it? Or will he mark it when he comes back to get it?

You sure about that? Looks to me that you have at least one there. Some of the tracks look like cat. Bobcat or house cat.

But a dirthole doesn't look like a canine food cache. A flat set would be closer.

99.44%.

The sand is messing with you.

A house cat didn’t kill this.

When he comes back.

I watched a coyote cache a half eaten groundhog at the base of a tree while I was bow hunting. He just kicked some dirt and leaves over it.
A few days later I watched him come back for it. He uncovered it, shook it with his teeth for a few seconds, and trotted off. When I went over to look at it, it was covered with orange and black carrion beetles. Must have been too much to stomach.

According to Charles Dobbins it will poop there after it is removed.

one time Hobbie i found 4 freshly stocked pheasants in a stump still warm.ate 2 and caught the mink on what was left of the other 2.thanx for the reminder,hadn't thought about that in 20 yrs and even wifey remembers it.

I still think it was a big bobcat.

Hobbie, what's "throwing me off" is the extreme amount of raking of dirt from all directions, resulting in that pile in the center.
The only animal that I have ever heard of, or seen do this is a feline.

chupacabra

Mated with a Feline

Now that would be an animal!!!