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What's pooping on my lawn?

kasjkkasjk Posts: 137
in Problem solving

I'm wondering if anyone else have had problems with some kind of animal pooping on the lawn? I got up today and must have found about 8 of these.... Any clue as to what sort of animal it can be? I was thinking toad as I know I have them in my garden, but maybe they are a bit too big for that, it's about the size of a 10p in diameter.

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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190

    Do you have pheasants in the gardens. Looks a bit like that, you will know by the smell if it's a meat eater!

     

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,138

    Wood pigeon?


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





  • kasjkkasjk Posts: 137

    I've never had pheasants and I'm not sure if a hedgehog would be able to get in to the garden, but I suppose it could be a wood pigeon as my house backs onto the woods...it's just I've never seen this before and I've lived here for years. 

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    Hedgehog is longer and narrower. I think bird.

    Which bird? I dunnoimage



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Jojo1205Jojo1205 Posts: 11

    Not hedgehog I don't think - if you look at hedgehog poo it 'glistens' from the shells of the insects it eats. It also tends to be bigger. 

    There are signs of white around the edge so I would go with bird; I have similar sized droppings from the pigeons in my garden, that have very 'active' bowels shall we say...!

  • christine 007christine 007 Posts: 257

    I have a pigeon that poops exactly like that.

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