I never had that experience of boxies eating/killing the hatchlings, but I have had quite a number of clutches destroyed by digging boxies. After reading your post, I gave in to the pressure & went out and just started digging. After about a minute, (yes, one minute) I broke an egg. (Actually, Didn't think I was going to find any so fast) I found a clutch. How lucky can I get? Dug out 4 more eggs in the incubator. Will go out tommorrow & try again. Why? BECAUSE OF YOUR BAD EXPERIENCE! Don't know if I should yell at you or thank you for the extra mouths to feed. (ONLY KIDDING)But thanks.

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• More nest digging activity here in central VA - StephF, Tue Jun 28 17:56:50 2005
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• RE: More nest digging activity here in central VA - StephF, Wed Jun 29 11:09:45 2005
• RE: More nest digging activity here in central VA - sketch, Wed Jun 29 18:26:05 2005
• RE: More nest digging activity here in central VA - StephF, Wed Jun 29 19:42:38 2005
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• RE: More nest digging activity here in central VA - sketch, Fri Jul 1 06:28:53 2005
• RE: More nest digging activity here in central VA - jack, Wed Jun 29 19:41:11 2005
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