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15-07-2011, 10:24 PM
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| | | mystery object in garden
I found this in the garden today. Size approx 4cm long by 1.5cm wide.
At first I thought it was a dropping, but on closer inspection I saw that it was comprised mainly of undigested beetles so have to assume it's been regurgitated - but by what?
Hope someone can enlighten me on this.
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15-07-2011, 10:42 PM
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| | | Re: mystery object in garden
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My guess would be a corvid but it is only a guess. |
15-07-2011, 10:44 PM
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| | | Re: mystery object in garden
Possibly a corvid. 
Beat me to it lol |
15-07-2011, 11:10 PM
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| | | Re: mystery object in garden
Thank you for your replies. I hadn't thought of that but interestingly we have a family of Jays marauding through the garden at the moment so perhaps it's from them. |
17-07-2011, 12:59 AM
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| | | Re: mystery object in garden
it could also be hedgehog poo dos look a bit like what hogs leave in my garden but without beetles |
17-07-2011, 08:04 AM
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Originally Posted by tigertom  it could also be hedgehog poo dos look a bit like what hogs leave in my garden but without beetles | They probably have beetles in them but the are crunched up and exist as small fragments of shiny elytra within the main dropping. I agree this looks like a corvid pellet possibly rook. Mammals tend to chew on beetles these are intact which is more suggestive of a bird, which swallows them whole. |
17-07-2011, 08:25 AM
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| | | Re: mystery object in garden
Thanks again for your comments. Yes I think corvid is the most likely as it seems too big for a hedgehog and the beetles are mainly intact. | | |
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