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  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited October 2022
    I googled "muntjac poo" (as one does).  Interesting was:  identify poo, the wildlife trusts.  This forum did not allow me to post the link.

    Also solving a puzzle for me:  
    How did mice climb on my slippery car?  And not get noticed by owls.?
    Answer, it isn;t mouse poo, but bats'.


     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
    @bédé :)   I know blades of grass vary in width, but that looks like a lawn to me ... not a field of pampas grass ... I know what worm casts on a lawn look like.  

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





  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    I have just thought that myself.  But didn't bother to post.  I didn't think pampas; just didn't think.  But it might be vey coarse meadow grass.  But tht'a just an excuse.
     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
    We have plenty of muntjac around here ... they walk past our garden early in the morning and  sometimes wake me in the night with their barking ... those don't look like muntjac droppings to me. 

    I still say they're wormcasts ... another factor to bear in mind is that they're down amongst the base of the grass, having come up from the soil.  Droppings would've been deposited on top of the grass.  

    This may help ...

    https://www.mammal.org.uk/whose-poo/

    I knew a vicar who got quite exasperated at the bat droppings on the altar cloth in 'his' church.  Bless him ........ we suggested that on weekdays he could cover the cloth with a sheet of plastic which could be wiped down easily ... problem solved ... that's what happened ...  but he didn't like it  ;)

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





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I think the grass is a perfect pointer to the scale - unless it's not been cut for a very long time  ;)
    I also agree - anything larger would cause the grass to be flattened. It wouldn't be sitting nicely in at the base. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited October 2022
    My money is still on muntjac.  But it's up to d-clell... to have another look and make the final decision.

    re bat droppings.  My wife did volunteer cleaning for a church in Devon.  The bat droppings were very corrosive and it was impossible to restore the  poor brass eagle to pristine condition.
     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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