[Tweeters] Poop Question

[Keith Lueneburg]

Carol,

http://www.reddit.com/r/animaltracking is a great place to get help with
identifying animal poop or tracks. People are very helpful on there.

-Keith Lueneburg

On Tue, Jan 25, 2022, 15:52 Tom and Carol Stoner <tcstonefam at gmail.com>
wrote:


> Tweets,

>

> Do birds ever have solid poop?  Based on my experience, I think the answer

> is no, but I ask to be sure.  I'm not thinking about owl pellets.

>

> I have found what I think are two solid poops a couple weeks apart on our

> deck railing near the suet.  The poops are egg shaped, 3/4" - 1" long.  The

> first one was pale in color and contained very small bones, perhaps fish,

> and something I took to be perlite.  The second was light brown and seemed

> to be made up of the soil amendments peat and perlite, with perhaps some

> very finely crushed shell.

>

> After looking at the Carnivore Spotter, I'm thinking opossum or raccoon as

> likely culprits.  Is there any resource for poop id?

>

> We're in a part of West Seattle with lots of unmaintained spaces.

>

> Carol Stoner

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