Name that scat

Today on "Name that Scat" I found these lovely specimens scattered around a probably 200 foot radius on my property.

Anyone know what animal(s) they might belong to?

Bear, I think.

Bear would also be my first guess - but not knowing what normally lives in your area and what foods are currently available, and without breaking it open to see what is IN the poop (seeds, grasses, fur/bone chips...) it would be hard to say for sure. It looks more lumpy than pelleted, so that would suggest to me it is unlikely anything in the deer/bovine type family - grazers.

Any springs/watersources around, places where tracks would be in mud?

Nicole Alderman wrote:Poop 3

deer or goat, pellets clumped up into turds from eating all that green grass

Not pointy ends, so probably not a full carnivore.  Omnivore or herbivore.

A bit pellity so probably been eating more plants than meat

Could be a bear, but if it was a bear in our area, it would be a lot larger and this time of year to be more sloppy and have a lot more visible berry bits (but this assume you're also in berry season like we are here)

I'm leaning towards a large herbivore like an adult sheep or goat that recently changed diet.  Do you have wild goats there?  

Are you comfortable cutting it open and seeing if there are any undigested bits like bones, berry seeds or grasses?  

I vote runny ungulate turds.  They get clumpy like that when the fiber/moisture ratio is off in their diet.  If it's been rainy, if they got into grain, if there's not a lot of long fibered forage, etc.  Probably not elk, but it's hard to tell scale.  Probably domestic or deer.

We have deer, cougar, black bear, bobcat, raccoon, and coyote here. Neighbors have goats, but they've never escaped to my property.

We've got blackberries and apples and peaches, and I know the deer have been munching on those. I've never seen elk here.

I'll go sacrifice a knife to being a poop knife and cut them open and see what's inside!

Mel Tormet

I cut them all open, and was just solid green with worms and bugs taking over. I'm thinking it's deer!