BS: animal identity

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