Can anyone identify the creature leaving this poo on my lawn?

[Mykittensmittens]

big patch of it, more appearing every night. Live quite rurally with woods near. Each poo is about 5cm diameter.

would like to know as it’s literally right in the middle of the fecking lawn and now becoming an issue to mow etc!!

Get a pheasant plucker .......

Get a cat?

Do the danny champion of the world thing and fill up raisins with sleeping pills? 🤷🏻‍♀️

I loved that book as a child.

Unfortunately I did once read an interview with Roald Dahl claiming they never successfully caught a single pheasant, let alone the huge haul netted by Danny and Dad in the woods!

Poachers used to soak raisins in spirit to make pheasants drunk.

No new poo!!!

all the camera triggers are squirrels and DH walking to the compost bin!

i have left the camera in place but I fear this will
only ever be a subjective conclusion of pheasant!

@Mykittensmittens Any update ?

The offender has been caught!!!! Been away for 10 days. Today is my first day at my desk. Look up from my lunch and this beautifully pheasant is on the fence!!!

Thanks for updating OP! This has been one of my favourite threads in years 😂

Aha!

Was he mid-poop?

I was over invested there - thank god you got to the, err, bottom of it. Beautiful pheasant too

😂preferably shedding feathers as they go.

Phezzoggs!

You can tame them so they follow you around the garden like a flock of ducklings. Ask me how I know

He's a particularly handsome specimen!

He’s lovely and he hung around a fair while, nibbling acorns. I got quite close. Then he clocked me, made his massive honking call and lumbered/flew into next door, where a slightly over enthusiastic woman with a phone wasn’t chasing him….probably safer!

Given all his magnificent defacating abilities, I'm
not sure I want him following me down onto the patio!!

He's beautiful 😍

Hooray! Mystery solved.

Quite embarrassed to admit I was fairly preoccupied with this. And who would have thought pheasants were such methodical crappers? Nature is indeed a peculiar thing.