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Which animal droppings?

charlene.mclcharlene.mcl Posts: 2
in Problem solving
I’m wondering if the droppings in my garden could be hedgehog, rat (eek!), or something else?

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  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    Looks like hedgehog, small, dark, pointy end.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • Pauline 7Pauline 7 Posts: 2,246
    Looks like hedgehog to me......but I could be wrong. 
    West Yorkshire
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited June 2021
    The first one could be hedgehog but not the others.  The white on them indicates they’re from a bird. Birds excrete urine and poo via the same route and the white coating is the urea. 


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • charlene.mclcharlene.mcl Posts: 2
    Thanks for the comments, we have a lot of wood pigeons that visit so could be that, just seemed quite big for the size of them.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I've seen a chap  (in pinstripe suit on the way to work) splattered from head to foot by an incontinent pigeon perched on a shop sign above his head ... their capacity sometimes  seems endless  :o

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • IlikeplantsIlikeplants Posts: 894
    I’d have gone with wood pigeons as I get those on my grass and big old birds in the nearby trees.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    looks like the masses of Canada Goose poo we've got everwhere just now. 
    Devon.
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