Random ID question

[denisec60]

Apologies for the subject matter in my first post! We're trying to identify what has been visiting our garden since the snowfall over the weekend. We're finding a large amount of droppings (30 odd yesterday and many more, today) all over our garden table, in the snow, on the top of a low fence... those on the ground are surrounded by no track/footprints (in the untrodden heavy snow) and are mostly near the bottom of the fence, hence we assume bird (and not a levitating mammal).

The odd thing is they don't look like any bird droppings I've ever seen and are dog xexexexe shaped; cylindrical (about the diameter of a pencil) up to 1" long, orange/brown in colour and have no odour whatsoever.

We're just curious... any ideas please? I have a few photos if it's possible to post them here?

Many thanks

[shenk1]

Possibly blackbird pellets.

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[artdemole]

Blackbird may have found a pyracantha bush and been eating the orangey berries.

[denisec60]

Thanks for the welcome

Links - I hope! - to the images below. I'm rather embarrassed as I had thought bird droppings were almost always a bit of a 'splat'... these are large and resemble the droppings of a small mammal.

[Dogghound]

Yes these are droppings from a fruit eating thrush, (blackbird etc) very distinctive.

[denisec60]

Thanks so much Makes complete sense... having just noticed that my neighbour's pyracantha hedge has become all but stripped of berries over the weekend. Obviously a lot of feasting going on judging by the amount of orange snow in my garden.