What creature dropped these faeces?

[motco]

These faeces have appeared on my garden wall in the last few days. There's a car key with one for scale, another viewed in shot with standard sized bricks (ignore the grey cappings as they're non-standard), and the same one in close-up. The house is in a fairly rural area of south Buckinghamshire with lots of farmland, and red kites are numerous. The wall is four feet high or thereabouts so it won't be a mammal larger than a squirrel. Therefore I have to assume it's a bird. Herons are frequently casing my pond and have been seen on the wall. Kites have only ever landed on it if we've put a dead rodent on there for them to carry off.

[anonymous-user]

Goose or swan.

[Patio]

Maybe large duck

Do you have any ponds/streams nearby?

[Trustmeimadoctor]

sebdangerfield said:

Goose or swan.

Agree

[motco]

I have a pond but it's only ever attracted a moorhen and that a single visit in a decade that I'm aware. No rivers nor any large ponds (other than a few swimming pools). We're on a hillside in the Chilterns overlooking a dry valley. Interesting thought though. Kites' droppings are usually wetter than these, but herons are unknown.

[Simpo Two]

If it tastes of grass it's swan or goose. If it tastes of fish, it's heron. If it tastes of meat, it's a bird of prey.

[Scabutz]

This a st thread

[croyde]

Some bird dumped an impossibly huge pile on the bonnet of my car once.

I swear it must have been a pteradactyl.

[motco]

Well, chaps, the consensus is that it's a bird, and as my experience of kites ordure is that it's more like chickens' crap (wet and slimy) is it is probably a heron. Thanks for the input both informative and humorous.

[Turtle Shed]

Very luck that didn't hit your car keys by the look of the first photo.

[motco]

Turtle Shed said:

Very luck that didn't hit your car keys by the look of the first photo.

[HTP99]

Canadian Goose I reckon.

[Aunty Pasty]

I've actually seen a heron poo in mid flight. It was a large and messy affair with about seems like a litre of semi solid waste spraying everywhere. No neat little package there.

[motco]

I'll set up my wildlife camera to watch the wall for a few days. It usually provides endless amusement with a hundred and fifty pictures of an empty field! This will substitute wall for field!
This:


or this

[Simpo Two]

Aunty Pasty said:

I've actually seen a heron poo in mid flight. It was a large and messy affair with about seems like a litre of semi solid waste spraying everywhere. No neat little package there.

Must've been the fish...

Friend of mine has to park his (black) car right next to a 10' tall hawthorn hedge. I don't know what kind of birds live it but their crap welds itself onto the paintwork. I call his car the 'Birdst Express'.

[NextSlidePlease]

I'd say that's a red kite that's been on a heavy session of Guinness the night before.

[Mr MXT]

croyde said:

Some bird dumped an impossibly huge pile on the bonnet of my car once.

I wouldn't take her out again.

[Some Gump]

OP, are you the Scatman?

[motco]

Some Gump said:

OP, are you the Scatman?

No!


Who he?

[Some Gump]

He's an expert on these matters!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVHKp6ffURY