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What made this hole?
« on: April 15, 2020, 06:28:58 PM »
This post is for my in-laws on the east side.  They have a place on the Columbia and found this burrow maybe 15 yards up the bank from the river.  The hole is roughly the width of a shovel.

What’s your best guess?  I have an idea but am betting many here know more.







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Re: What made this hole?
« Reply #1 on: April 15, 2020, 06:33:37 PM »
badger

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Re: What made this hole?
« Reply #2 on: April 15, 2020, 06:33:58 PM »
Possibly nutria.
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Re: What made this hole?
« Reply #3 on: April 15, 2020, 06:36:53 PM »
Looks like a badger to me..

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Re: What made this hole?
« Reply #4 on: April 15, 2020, 06:38:29 PM »
I would vote for a badger also.

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Re: What made this hole?
« Reply #5 on: April 15, 2020, 06:40:16 PM »
Reach on down there as far as ya can, maybe youll find out

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Re: What made this hole?
« Reply #6 on: April 15, 2020, 06:50:23 PM »
See if they could carefully  get pics of tracks

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Re: What made this hole?
« Reply #7 on: April 15, 2020, 07:04:55 PM »
Leprechauns.  You've found their pot of gold. Collect your prize.

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Re: What made this hole?
« Reply #8 on: April 15, 2020, 07:07:39 PM »
5G did it

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Re: What made this hole?
« Reply #9 on: April 15, 2020, 07:13:33 PM »
badger

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Re: What made this hole?
« Reply #10 on: April 15, 2020, 07:42:08 PM »
An ambitious marmot

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Re: What made this hole?
« Reply #11 on: April 15, 2020, 07:45:01 PM »
Leprechauns.  You've found their pot of gold. Collect your prize.

You serious Clark?

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Re: What made this hole?
« Reply #12 on: April 15, 2020, 07:46:02 PM »
Seen any St. Patrick's Day?

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Re: What made this hole?
« Reply #13 on: April 17, 2020, 02:42:57 PM »
Agreed with the badger comments. Had one dig a den on my property some years ago, always wondered what it was and then saw the badger run up the hill and dive in.

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Re: What made this hole?
« Reply #14 on: April 18, 2020, 10:46:06 PM »
Him !
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Re: What made this hole?
« Reply #15 on: April 19, 2020, 06:30:32 AM »
I'd go with Badger also.

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Re: What made this hole?
« Reply #16 on: April 19, 2020, 07:21:00 AM »
Chupacabra

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Re: What made this hole?
« Reply #17 on: April 19, 2020, 08:15:14 AM »
Pretty round for a badger hole. Probably a giant sand owl.

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Re: What made this hole?
« Reply #18 on: April 19, 2020, 08:38:41 AM »
Just a few weeks ago I saw a fox coming in and out of a hole similar to the one posted. It was in a railroad embankment near the Ice Harbor dam.

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Re: What made this hole?
« Reply #19 on: April 19, 2020, 12:22:19 PM »
First thing I thought was badger could have been carol baskin though

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Re: What made this hole?
« Reply #20 on: April 19, 2020, 07:11:39 PM »
Badger.
Brings back a fond memory. As kids we found a badger den and the plan was to drown him out and then the guy not pouring water would shoot him when he ran for cover.  :chuckle: We must of poured a couple hundred gallons of water down his hole...…..all it did was piss him off (you could hear him growling) but he never came out.  :(
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Re: What made this hole?
« Reply #21 on: April 19, 2020, 08:15:15 PM »
Badger.
Brings back a fond memory. As kids we found a badger den and the plan was to drown him out and then the guy not pouring water would shoot him when he ran for cover.  :chuckle: We must of poured a couple hundred gallons of water down his hole...…..all it did was piss him off (you could hear him growling) but he never came out.  :(

Awesome, I'll tell him to try to flood it out.   :chuckle:

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Re: What made this hole?
« Reply #22 on: April 19, 2020, 08:26:03 PM »
You still need to reach down there and see whats up.  "Noodlin."

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Re: What made this hole?
« Reply #23 on: April 19, 2020, 09:05:00 PM »
Only one way to find out. The catfish noodler folks do it all the time. Could be a gator or a snapper in one of those holes and they ain’t scared.
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Re: What made this hole?
« Reply #24 on: April 19, 2020, 09:32:34 PM »
Smoke it out!

 


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