Just curious what is doing this in spots. It's not something scratching through the weeds and sod and piling dirt behind. It's more like someone dumps a shovel full of top soil on top of the weeds. No holes dug that I can see.

Wild boar?

Hogs

Gophers? If those are mounds pushed up from below, around here it would be pocket gophers.

I don't think there are hogs around here.

Fly-Sig I never knew about pocket gophers but I think that's what's doing this, thanks! I just read up on them.

https://blog.nature.org/2024/0...with-pocket-gophers/

IDK but Crawfish was my first thought but there would be holes...

Varmint Cong.

Moles.

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Originally posted by Gustofer:
Varmint Cong.

My first thought. Perhaps Mr Squirrel could help us.

or Moles, those guys do that type of shit around here.

Hamas infiltration?

It's moles or voles. Got the same in Ohio. Most likely moles according to the Wildlife folks here.

Thanks everyone. I've had both moles and voles at other property but they didn't make these large piles of dirt with no apparent tunnels under the grass. But maybe these are different kind?

I'm going to see if I can push a stick through and find a pocket gopher entrance, expose the opening and see if one comes out to re-cover the opening.

let me know if you have any luck with the bastards. I only mow about 3 acres on my property, the remainder is woods and ravine, but it takes me three times longer to mow as I have to go so slow. Tunnels and those surface mounds most everywhere.

The moles in my yard do that.

Moles or voles, if there is a grouping of mounds stomp them all flat and wait for 1 to open back up. Throw a gopher gasser in the hole that is open and cover it up. Stand there with a shovel and kill them when they come out.

Gophers?

If gophers look carefully at the mound and you should see a horseshoe shape with a lower area in the "open end" of the horseshoe. That is where the gopher pushes the dirt out of the tunnel. Many times if fresh, you can dig through the dirt plug and have access to the tunnel for whatever eradication method you choose. As a kid with a bb gun I stood behind the opening of many gopher mounds and dispatched the offenders with a quick shot. Entertainment of many many years ago.

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Originally posted by pootie:
If gophers look carefully at the mound and you should see a horseshoe shape with a lower area in the "open end" of the horseshoe. That is where the gopher pushes the dirt out of the tunnel. Many times if fresh, you can dig through the dirt plug and have access to the tunnel for whatever eradication method you choose......

Thanks if it ever stops raining I'll go back and inspect them. I read if you expose the opening they'll often come up to close it back up. I just want to see them, I have no intention of killing them. When I want to try to eradicate something I have the invasive plants; Japanese stilt grass, multiflora rase, barberry, and autumn olive.