Tracks and signs images needed.

Paul mabbott · #**176** (**permalink**) 29-07-2008, 10:32 AM

This seems an appropriate thread. Any clues on this dropping found over the weekend in a garden in the English Midlands.

about 4cms long, quite soft otherwise, containing a lot of beetle fragments - I can't work out what the other things are - possibly include some snail shell fragments?

I'd go for hedgehog except this was attached to netting about 60 cms above the soil!

vole-woman · #**177** (**permalink**) 29-07-2008, 10:52 AM

It looks a lot like something I spotted here a while ago which people seemed to think was a corvid pellet. If it was sicked out by a crow or similar, that would account for why it was on netting. Those beetle cases and stones look very familiar.

mh68 · #**178** (**permalink**) 29-07-2008, 11:01 AM

Yep I`d go with a Corvid pellet. Most likely a Magpie.

Mark H

Kayleigh · #**179** (**permalink**) 06-08-2008, 04:12 PM

Not exactly a mammal but here is some large white caterpillar poo.

Badger Watching Man · #**180** (**permalink**) 26-08-2008, 07:55 PM

Here's a few more badger pics. If they're duplicating, please feel free to remove.

Firstly, a badger trail showing the registered tracks (rear feet on fore feet) and the prints offset from the centre line. The ruler is 30cm long.

And here's two more for the badger dung collection, showing a diet of wheat from the fields.

BWM

jennyb · #**181** (**permalink**) 07-09-2008, 09:29 PM

Mark,

I don't know if you are still collecting signs, but there is a badger sett in my garden and in May there was lots of hair and bedding just outside the entrance.

There are regularly new signs of digging but no prints as yet.

Jenny

mh68 · #**182** (**permalink**) 07-09-2008, 09:36 PM

Thanks Jenny, and thanks BWM. All tracks and signs pics are still welcome - even those which arent to be included in the mammal a-z.There are so many variations of tracks/signs theyre all still useful on this thread as reference material

Mark H

Tracey.A · #**183** (**permalink**) 11-09-2008, 07:47 AM

Thought I'd add a photo of some bat droppings, not sure if you need anymore?

Tracey

shirl · #**184** (**permalink**) 11-09-2008, 04:38 PM

A new water vole latrine being formed on a partly submerged piece of wood near the canal bank

Shirl

Mr Speckler · #**185** (**permalink**) 14-09-2008, 04:23 PM

Hi,
Pleased to be able to add to this thread, these are Green Woodpecker droppings.

If you take them home and dissect them on the kitchen table.....you will make your wife mad. They are full of ants.

Colin

Mr Speckler · #**186** (**permalink**) 14-09-2008, 04:38 PM

Hi again,
Have you considered the fox as an artist, More Tracey Emin than Hirst. Well I dunno, seems more Dali to me. Don't understand modern art.

Good fox poop though.

Colin

shirl · #**187** (**permalink**) 21-09-2008, 06:30 PM

A couple of ratty (brown rat) traces, a rat run and a rat burrow entrance, both taken at Carsington Water

Shirl

Hedge Witch · #**188** (**permalink**) 18-10-2008, 10:25 PM

Badger digging/feeding signs on the lawn of Shaftesbury Museum.

Tracey.A · #**189** (**permalink**) 03-11-2008, 02:11 PM

Hi this is a photo of a badgers foot print, taken by Ida. I think it's excellent!

Posted by Tracey on behalf of Ida

Ida · #**190** (**permalink**) 03-11-2008, 02:13 PM

I am reliably informed, by other more knowledgeable WAB members, that this is a print from the right hind foot of a badger. Hope it's of use.

Hedge Witch · #**191** (**permalink**) 03-11-2008, 02:16 PM

Tee hee - you two are on the same wavelength

What are the chances of that?

Ida · #**192** (**permalink**) 03-11-2008, 02:21 PM

That was down to Tracey very kindly helping me out, and me not noticing I had a message.

Tracey.A · #**193** (**permalink**) 03-11-2008, 02:32 PM

Well it should make it into the 'Tracks and signs' forum now Hedge Witch

It's such a good track of a badger

Great minds think alike! Well done Ida on such a good photo

Tracey

tameblackbirds · #**194** (**permalink**) 01-02-2009, 07:26 PM

Can I include some pellets that I found in my garden? today have got images

Dogghound · #**195** (**permalink**) 01-02-2009, 07:30 PM

Go for it, the more the merrier.

tameblackbirds · #**196** (**permalink**) 01-02-2009, 07:44 PM

here we go DogHound

they are about 6cm long 3cm across and appear to contain grey hair we do get foxes in garden and of course cats we also have seen rats

Dogghound · #**197** (**permalink**) 01-02-2009, 07:57 PM

The apparent lack of bones puts me off birds, how tightly compact are they? they look like loose fir. Likely from a cat or fox as you say, it looks like rat hair too..

tameblackbirds · #**198** (**permalink**) 01-02-2009, 08:27 PM

not too tightly compacted and no sign of bones hope it is rat as they are invading compost bins need to put chicken wire under them! had one in roof too Had a vixen and dog in garden couple of weeks ago and still hearing crys at night

ali007 · #**199** (**permalink**) 03-02-2009, 01:36 PM

Hoping someone can help me, this is my 1st post!

Unusual (to me anyway

) footprints in my garden this morning, in the snow.

Approx 2" long, in a V shape, one either side, possibly with a little mark where the two meet. Sorry, just discovered camera not working otherwise I'd have posted a piccie.

I'm assuming it's some kind of deer? It came over from next door (6' fence) and must have gone over to garden on other side. We do live on edge of country but I haven't seen deer near houses before.

What really puzzles me is that it was a single line of tracks?

I may have to stay up tonight to look out

Thanks in anticipation.