It is either very strong or I "Scared It Straight". Maybe he looked around and saw he was in the compost and decided he did not want to be down there with all that rotten fruit.
If we had not had so much rain the bin would have been turned. It was raining so hard and so much I did not go down to the bin to turn. It is at the back of the property about 100 ft away from the house and I did not want to walk down there in the rain.