Hedgehog Droppings

[henrya]

All the Muntjac droppings I've seen have been pelleted - but of course who knows what I diet of something unusual will do to anyone's droppings!

henrya

[Susie]

BUMP!!!

I was out in the garden at dusk with some friends when I suddenly spotted what appeared to me to be a large Hedgehog dropping! With an exclamation of "Hedgepig poo!!" I rushed over and picked it up (with the aid of a stick) much to the bemusement/disgust of the friends I was with and gave it a good look and sniff. lmao

It was underneath the bird feeders and I can only assume that whatever made it was polishing off any fallen food but, my query is, is it likely to be a Hedgehog dropping or could something else have made it? I am positive it wasn't cat, Fox or rodent. Surely any healthy adult Hedgehog should be hibernating at the moment?

Sorry, but I don't have a photo of it - it got thrown away before I could take one.

[Garden Carpet]

Susie... did it look like the stuff in the picture on this thread... I found many more elsewhere in the garden and was hoping that the pile of blocks and bits of timber were a winter home to a couple of Hedgehogs.
jaki

[Susie]

It was much softer looking than the one in your photo and a khaki colour.

I shall keep my eyes peeled for more droppings and also for the little critters themselves.

I can't help being very excited, I haven't seen a Hedgehog for a long time (if that is what it was) but I am also a bit concerned because I hope it wasn't disturbed from hibernation and that it will be able to survive the rest of the winter.

[Garden Carpet]

We will have to hope he was only up for a bathroom break and went straight back to bed!!!
jaki

[badgerwatcher]

The Badgers here poo a rather smooth greyish kharki colour. And about the size of my little finger. The foxes is much redder and lumpier.

[Susie]

Don't get me all excited Badgerwatcher! If I had Badgers in the garden I would have kittens. I don't think it is very likely though.

I am fairly certain it isn't foxies. Not stinky enough with that distinct foxy smell.

[Garden Carpet]

Oooh Susie, what a wonderful thing if you did have em.

[badgerwatcher]

Does your lawn look like the Battle of the Somme? Mine does! They dig little holes looking for worms. And they dig up newly planted bulbs too. But, Badgers will be Badgers!

[badgerwatcher]

And they have a smell too. Nothing like Fox. Exactly like Badger!

[sunbeam]

I was wonderiing what these droppings were. One found on a fence one on the drive yesterday. I was blaming a local owl or big rats.
Today there are a dozen or so all over my drive.
I had a prod about and could see grain in the latest offerings.
We've had thousands of grey geese circling above us for about 2 weeks now. My son reports hearing droppings dropping like hail.
Could these reddish brown droppings be from the geese?
Sunbeam

[Susie]

I don't know if the droppings you saw were from geese, sorry to not be able to be of more help.

But the ones I saw in my garden that time were Hedgehog droppings. On a couple of occasions when I was mothing in the garden (which is virtually all the mothing I did this year!) the Hedgehogs came to see me to see what I was up to - they weren't at all shy.