Where are my flowers gone? Could there be someone around?

[RocketPanda]

Every Sunday I leave some flowers at a wayside grave that local history says a mother buried all of her children when they died in the 1840s during The Great Hunger. I live in an isolated spot, usually see no one except farmers and tourists during the summer or the odd film crew from time to time.
Whilst taking the dog for a walk this evening I noticed the bunch of flowers are gone. Now it's been fairly windy and that's why I weighed them down under a rock yesterday and the rock has been rolled over to the other side of the patch of land. There's no cows nearby.
Am I getting paranoid or should I be worried that there's someone prowling around?

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Probably blew away

One of the farmers forgot to place an order with the florist for Valentine's Day.

Some cheapskate forgot valentines and felt their luck had come in?!

Taken for a valentines gift?

My dad was putting flowers on my nans grave znd they were disappearing anyhow the bunnies did it. They were eating the flowers. I guess the high winds had yours.

It happened in a cemetery here & it turned out to be wildlife taking them.

@LubaLuca I thought that for a bit but there's no animals out so no farmers out this way

I doubt the wind could blow a rock over.
I have several outbuildings and just checked them all and there's nothing untoward and they are all very secure. I have an open barn but that just got a washing line in it.

There's no deer around here so the rock is still a mystery. I can imagine only a deer would have the strength to move rocks.

Farmers will check on their land, hedges, gates etc even when there's no livestock out.

I think wildlife is much more likely though. Tasty flowers at this time of year would be an irresistible feast to lots of animals.

We're they wrapped or tied together?

No wrappings I don't like leaving plastic around the countryside.
I really doubt the farmers took them. I've been doing it for a long time and they know I do and have never touched them.

Interesting….

There is a similar grave on Dartmoor, flowers appear, but no one knows who puts them there.

Someone nicked them.

@TheSpottedZebra

We're they wrapped or tied together?

Yeah that's what I was getting at

Flowers EVERY Sunday! Blimey.

Squirrels, they eat the wreaths at our local crematorium.

@DobbyTheHouseElk

Interesting….

There is a similar grave on Dartmoor, flowers appear, but no one knows who puts them there.

Jay's grave? People that stop there. Nothing more romantic that that.

Dobby, is it Kitty Jay's grave on Dartmoor?

Whoops,I see someone else has just asked that!

Don’t you leave the flowers in a vase?

Given the date, I'd say that someone received them for valentine's day.

@catscatscurrantscurrants

Dobby, is it Kitty Jay's grave on Dartmoor?

Yes.

I used to use an old jug as a vase @Gilly12345 but then if the cows accidentally trample it then it leaves sharp bits to injure so I stopped that. Weird that you knew that.
Every Sunday @TheSpottedZebra . I live 2 minutes walk from it. The only thing that marks it is some rocks. Someone should remember them.