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Subject: BS: animal identity From: The Sandman Date: 22 Aug 10 - 07:57 AM over the last two days, while walking on my land, i have found two seperate clumps of regurgitated blackberries, any body know whether it would be a fox or a badger, or a magpie/jay |
Subject: RE: BS: animal identity From: Ebbie Date: 22 Aug 10 - 11:09 AM In Alaska when one finds a pie of berries that means only one thing: a bear. :) |
Subject: RE: BS: animal identity From: gnu Date: 22 Aug 10 - 12:53 PM Same thing here Ebbie. This time of year, raspberry and blueberry season, on the lumber roads up country, it's not uncommon to see piles every hundred metres or more often. Why they pick the centre of the road is a mystery to me. Perhaps they are trying to catch a breeze due to flies and heat or, ahhh, to face up wind. |
Subject: RE: BS: animal identity From: ragdall Date: 22 Aug 10 - 02:11 PM I'd vote for a bear too. The berries wouldn't have been regurgitated, but they might look that way, they may seem to barely have been processed. |
Subject: RE: BS: animal identity From: Beer Date: 22 Aug 10 - 02:17 PM BEAR!! ad. |
Subject: RE: BS: animal identity From: Ebbie Date: 22 Aug 10 - 02:20 PM Does the UK have wild bears? |
Subject: RE: BS: animal identity From: Paul Burke Date: 22 Aug 10 - 02:22 PM Only on the stock market. |
Subject: RE: BS: animal identity From: Ebbie Date: 22 Aug 10 - 02:43 PM Lots of those; enough for all of us. |
Subject: RE: BS: animal identity From: The Sandman Date: 22 Aug 10 - 03:12 PM I dont live in the UK,i live in Ireland, We are not supposed to have Bears,could it be badgers, and why three times?does the bear need to see a doctor |
Subject: RE: BS: animal identity From: Desert Dancer Date: 22 Aug 10 - 04:12 PM Depending on the size of the piles, I'd vote for foxes, in your area (bears being highly unlikely). They're not regurgitated, berries often go through with minimal digestion. Depending if nothing else is being eaten around the same time... you get what you might expect. ~ Becky in Tucson |
Subject: RE: BS: animal identity From: ragdall Date: 22 Aug 10 - 04:35 PM Jam! |
Subject: RE: BS: animal identity From: Charley Noble Date: 22 Aug 10 - 10:20 PM Dick- I don't believe you have raccoons in Ireland either, unless you've imported them from the States. But they would be a prime candidate here. They love berries, and grapes, and any other sweet fruit. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
Subject: RE: BS: animal identity From: olddude Date: 22 Aug 10 - 10:31 PM Ok, don't know about your neck of the woods but in mine that is absolutely a sure sign of FOX that is exactly what it looks like |
Subject: RE: BS: animal identity From: open mike Date: 23 Aug 10 - 04:02 AM poop |
Subject: RE: BS: animal identity From: romanyman Date: 23 Aug 10 - 02:59 PM i can assure you that its the action of foxes, they cannot digest all of the fruit , so you end up with neat little piles of half digested fruity poo, |
Subject: RE: BS: animal identity From: gnu Date: 23 Aug 10 - 03:42 PM Indeed, a "preditor" is the obvious choice for the reasons stated above. The fruit goes through them so quickly that digestion is limited. So, my next questions would be, were the "clumps" situated in similar fashion" and "were the clumps located on a mound or rock or similar"? Foxes, coyotes, martins, etc, here deficate in this manner. |
Subject: RE: BS: animal identity From: LadyJean Date: 24 Aug 10 - 12:55 AM Or a large dog. |
Subject: RE: BS: animal identity From: Richard Bridge Date: 24 Aug 10 - 03:58 AM I have not often seen dogs eat fruit from the bush. I once knew a black labrador cross that was mad on gooseberries, and would carefully and between the thorns absolutely denude a gooseberry bush of ripe fruit, but that is an extreme rarity. In the UK large dogs out on their own are comparatively rare these days. I can't speak for Milesland. |
Subject: RE: BS: animal identity From: ranger1 Date: 24 Aug 10 - 07:05 PM Fox poo is a good guess, especially if it is in the road or on a foot path. Many animals use scat for territorial marking, and our roads and paths are a lot easier to use for boundaries than pushing their way through thick underbrush. Here in northern New England, the foxes are currently leaving piles of purple scat from the wild sarsaparilla berries, as well as blackberries. |
Subject: RE: BS: animal identity From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 24 Aug 10 - 07:30 PM Might it be a human? |
Subject: RE: BS: animal identity From: frogprince Date: 30 Aug 10 - 10:55 AM Just a thought. The most expensive coffee in the world is stuff that has already been processed through a civit cat. So maybe these pre-owned berries should be considered a gourmet treat. |
Subject: RE: BS: animal identity From: Amos Date: 30 Aug 10 - 11:00 AM Only if washed, first.... |
Subject: RE: BS: animal identity From: olddude Date: 30 Aug 10 - 01:33 PM I will stick with Tim Horton's Dean ... yikes |