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Droppings

d.clellandB3puU0kad.clellandB3puU0ka Posts: 2
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Would anybody be able to tell me what type of droppings these might be that i keep finding in the garden? I cant find any holes etc. To suggest rats getting in. There are magpies nesting nearby but i doubt its them. Only appear in the grass and nowhere else
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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    They look more like worm casts to me, but someone else might say differently  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    Is your soil that same dark colour (when wet)? If so I agree, worm casts. Here they're lighter coloured and sandy-textured, because that's what's going in at the front end.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • d.clellandB3puU0kad.clellandB3puU0ka Posts: 2
    Just gave them a google and yeah that looks right to me, thanks for that

    Never heard of them before im new to all this but from the look of it theyre not much of a problem
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    if you want - you can brush them across your grass to disperse them, or even lift and put onto a border somewhere. Whichever is easiest for you @d.clellandB3puU0ka  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Bird poo usually had white bits in it, which is the urea from the urine mixed in. Birds don’t pee. 
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    Yet another scatological post.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Plenty of worm casts are a sign that you have a healthy population of worms in your lawn.  :)

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





  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited October 2022
    Relooking at the pics, it might be deer poo.  Characteristically, very black.  If it breaks up easly in "crottins" it will be deer.

    I'm sorry, but I don't know the English word for the individular dollops characteristic of horse and deer poo, and certain varieties of French cheese..  
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited October 2022
    Goat keepers call them ‘currants’ @Bede … as do farmers and gamekeepers I know who have deer on their land … but the OP’s photos are much smaller than any lumps of ‘currants’ I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen many in my time 🐐 

    My brother used to collect some  deer droppings from his farmland and leave some by the farmhouse door on Christmas Eve so that when the children woke on Christmas morning there was evidence of the reindeer having visited 🎅 

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





  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited October 2022
    d.clell... has given us no idea of scale.  My local deer are Roe, my daughter's, Fallow.  I have no experience of Muntjac (fortunately) but they are much smaller.

    (Definitely not reindeer.  Too early.)
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
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