Animal Poo? Identification

 

Hi all

Anyone suggest the likely culprit for:

Animal poo approx 10mm diameter - 3 pcs - 1 @ 25mm long and 2 @ 10mm long -
in cluster on lawn.
Similar to cat but - no smell, dry and like charcoal in appearance.
Close examination showed what looked like lots of "beetle-shell-bits"
embedded, which created the charcoal appearance.

TIA

Phil

 



I might have said fox until you mentioned there was no smell.  It seems too
big for a hedgehog, could it possibly be pellets from a bird of prey?
Just a thought.

Tina

 


"Christina Websell" wrote


Thanks Tina

Don't know much about birds of prey but it's possible.  We live at the top
of a hill v. close to the edge of a housing estate.  There are a lot of
sparrow hawk-type-things which hang around on the lamp posts of major roads
nearby.  There are one or two owls around although I have'nt actually seen
either in our copper beech (near which the poo? was found).
Are bird pellets usually round or can they be sausage shaped?
Hedgehogs were suggested by a neighbour - again I haven't seen them and also
haven't suffered from vegetable damage (if they eat them).
The least likely I think would be a fox; although they are occasionally
spotted, our garden has a perimeter fence and I don't think there are any
breaches big enough.

Phil

 

Depending on diameter (not mentioned) I'd say hedgehog or fox. Both
eat beetles.

Walking at a local nature reserve last autumn there were numerous
black poos beside the path at regular intervals. The reason they were
black, and incidentally, full of little seeds, is that foxes are very
partial to blackberries! And certainly there were none on the bushes
any lower than fox-height.

Birds of prey poo like normal birds - think seagull/pigeon - but do
regurgitate pellets of indigestible matter, usually fur & bones. These
aren't like poo, but very dry, pale grey and mainly made up of fur. If
you poke them with a stick you'll find they are just dried-up fur with
a few bones and insect carapaces.

 



""Animal poo approx 10mm diameter ""   do keep up ;-)

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