Saw the critter that made this. What do you think it was?

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Carpenter ant, big black ant?

No, mammal

Looks like owl droppings. They don't shiet, they regurgitate their food into droppings that look like that

In the future, please add something like a pencil, Bic lighter, etc for scale.

And your location would also help in discounting certain critters.

Some kind of wood bores?

I know right...
Today I should had put a piece of paper with 24HCF and a date too.

But not an owl....

Bobcat?

That was my first thought.

Well, they do scheidt.

Their pellets are just the indigestible bits that don't get passed through the guts.

That looks like it could be mountain lion scat.
Not sure where you are at....

Nah

that won't help with ID unless you're trying to pass off some museum specimens of an extinct species' scat as something that happened today.

Scale helps bunches though, if those pellets are 1/2" long they're likely not from a coyote or bobcat.

Maybe they're from a pika?

They do chit, they regurgitate the hair and bones. Had one for a pet.

How about giving us mutiple choice, we igament !!!

Gary knows his [bleep]!!!!!!!!!

Skunk?

Possum?

Warthog. Or hippo.

Man!
I could have guessed Bobcat, can't tell the difference between bobcat and ML without a size reference.

Tell that to Amazon.

Yote

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Wampus cat?....Joe

are you one of those that doesn't read the whole thread?

sheesh

Valsdad;
Good afternoon my friend, I hope that the weather in your section of northern California is at least something you can work with and that despite the fascinating political turmoil in both our respective countries that you're well.

How's that for an opening salutation?

Regarding your request, you mean like this correct?



Or this, same prop but with the information that they're 8x42's and it's on the east side of the Okanagan Valley, BC side but close to the medicine line at about the 5000' level.



Sorry to the OP, I'm sitting in the house pouring wood into two woodstoves today because frankly it's about 10°C colder than it should be at this time of year and last year today we set a record for warmest day ever.

To the OP however, if it was here I'd guess coyote eating fuzzy animals poop there.

Back to you Geno, I'll send best wishes for a good weekend and here's to staying warm and dry for the next bit.

Dwayne

PS;
I now see it's bobcat, which I wouldn't have guessed - if only obviously - as some folks north of me even are wont to say.

We do have bobcat, lynx and cougar here, but I must admit their scat I cannot tell from a coyote eating fuzzy animal scat.

Coyotes eating grapes in the vineyards is of course a different discussion...

Years of trapping and learning to read sign. A bobcat toilet is a sure-fire trap set location.

Did you find that behind the dump?

We can’t shoot them here or trap them , but I have seen him 3 times in the same spot ....

Skunk ape, I'd know it anywhere.

Well Dwayne, I'm surviving.

Weather? Ha Ha. 6"+ snow total yesterday and the day before, and as you know so well, clearing last night and the big temp drop. We're still at about -8C here (18F for us yanks) after a low this morning of around -19C (-3F). I'm fortunate it waited till midweek to snow, as I was able to shovel some paths to the garage and around the yard for the dogs' "purposes". Earlier in the week when the Corona first hit, I'd have been in no shape for snow moving.

The binocs in your picture are the perfect example. That's a big load of crap in the one picture, but it could as easily have appeared to be from a smaller animal without something for scale.

I've lived in a place where piles like that showed up in the yard on occasion. All I can say is that so far we've yet to see any down here on the flats, the bears can stay up the hill as far as I'm concerned. If blackie decided to, the Chicken Gulag would be penetrated easily enough for him to grab one of my hens. We'd not like that.

I must get do doing a few things, so I bid you a great afternoon up Okanagan way.

Geno

Those are Smart Pills.Taste one and tell us what it taste like.

Geno;
Thanks for the reply, though I am sorry to hear about the beer flu and the cold temps.

We had snow hit here and stay on the 2nd of November, which is the second earliest down here ever for us in 30 years and the first time it's stayed.

The local "problem bear" this spring was particularly fond of a couple of the neighbor's chickens indeed.

It made a fatal error in judgement however and is now being fed to the ancient cat on my lap. It's a pain because I have to cook it to kill the trichinosis, but she likes it and I like him gone.

The impressive thing about both the bear poop photos to me is the diameter in both instances and then the volume as well in the second.

A hunting buddy and neighbor caught what had to be the tracks of the second one in that initial dump of snow and pronounced the tracks "the biggest black bear tracks I've seen in decades anywhere and biggest here".

We'll maybe have to go see what we can see up there this spring when the snow pack moves off.

All the best with the afternoon projects and here's to all of us in the western deepfreeze keeping warm this weekend.

Dwayne

Here's another sample for all the amateur scatologists in residence.

Morewood;
Good afternoon to you sir, it's my hope for you as well that you're keeping well, warm and dry since you're in the same general geographic location as Geno?

Am I seeing deer hair in that?

When the black bears up here get into killing fawns in spring it can look a bit like that, but not perhaps exactly if I'm remembering right.

That'd be a fair pile for a cougar but what else in your part of the world eats something covered in hair?

Thanks for the scatalogical puzzle and all the best.

Dwayne

Sure looked like deer hair, Dwayne. Could be either cat or bear, they've both been spotted in the past in this area.

All the best to you and yours Dwayne

Morewood;
Thanks for the reply sir, I appreciate the info and well wishes.

Speaking broadly, as a semi-geezer and life long amateur scatological observer, when the meat eaters are cleaning up a carcass, as in getting down to the hooves, bones and hair, the poop is way, WAY different than if they're just gorging on meat. That can give them quite loose movements from what I've seen, as can too many grapes..

The coyotes here will even get into the lower branches of fruit trees if they can and for sure like cherries as well as grapes, but I'm not sure if they eat other fruit or not.

Bears of course eat all fruit and most vegetables though everything so far leaves the onions and garlic alone here including our yard deer.

If someone else knows what that is, I'll certainly concede to their opinion, but black bear cleaning up the last bits of a deer carcass would be my guess on what you've got there.

That could be a big cat for sure, but it'd be a fair sized one I believe.

All the best to you all once more sir.

Dwayne

Chalky like a Bobcat, but most Bobcat Scat looks more like a tootsie roll, with hair don't know what that is. Rio7

Break those pellets apart. If you find tiny bones, etc, it's a regurgitated owl pellet. the carpenter ant holes are a fair measure of size, but binocs, gloves, etc. would be mo-betta.

The "best" flop I ever found out in the wild was about 9 inches across and a half inch deep pancake. Nearly all of it tapeworm. I assumed it was a wolf with a real dose! Photobucket ate the picture - buncha perverts.

where i come from

It’s cornbread n chicken