Mystery poo in garden

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Soft, squidgy, flat, black and white poos keep appearing in the same place in my garden (see attached picture). They're maybe 0.5cm thick, so much more substantial than typical bird muck.

Every day there's more, in the same location, under a large tree.

My best guess is they're from a very large bird and they're falling from high enough to make them flatten on impact. But I can't find any similar images so I could be completely wrong.

Does anyone have any idea what they are and what I can do to stop them?

We're stuck isolated in our house, and they're almost impossible to clean, so keeping my kids of them is a nightmare! Any help would be much appreciated.

Barn owl?

Fox

If it stinks to high heaven its fox, tends to be all black though.
A barn owl pellet should have fur and bones in it.
It's not some weird fungal growth is it.

not barn owl, they don't pooh they vomit pellets
not fox, they look like dog poo but much more grainy and seedy.

It looks like pigeon poo to me. Pretty sure it is a bird.
Could be magpies or crows

Squirrel shit?

No idea 🤣

Badger? - the most horrendous smell if it is.

Big fat wood pigeons?

I used to have turkeys and the ground would look like this after they'd roosted at night so my guess is a big ass bird

Ok - possibly TMI

The black bits on top are still in shape and you can see th esize of the bottom they came out of! That is big bird size, like our (big fat) chickens.
Also, birds poo a mix of urine and poo, typiclaly white and darker, so you get two tone poo.

So I think it is a bird, and a big pigeon or crow/magpie would be the right size

Best thread title ever!

It’s a wood pigeon. They have black and white sludgy poos like that.

Goose?

Looks a bit like goose poo.

As far as stopping them. You can either hire a wildlife person to trap the wood pigeons in your garden and take them away to release elsewhere or you can have a predator scare them away. To scare them to a different nesting area, you can hire a falconer or get an outdoor cat.

Not mine anyway.

Fox poo really stinks.

It's a bird not a mammal - the white parts are Yeates except in your photo they're purple - probs due to whatever they've been eating.

Pigeons
Possibly gulls

It's a bird not a mammal - the white parts are Yeates except in your photo they're purple - probs due to whatever they've been eating.

Pigeons
Possibly gulls

Of course owls poo, as well as cast pellets 🙄 I used to work for a bird of prey rescue.

It looks big poo to me for a bird. So owl or buzzard possibly.
Shine a security light on the perch, make a makeshift scarecrow, hang old CDs or silver aluminium pie tins that flash the light as they move, streamers ??? I would think it will go elsewhere if it is disturbed. Use a spade to scrape stuff up, dig a hole and bury it. Wash away remains with bucket of warm soapy water.

It looks big poo to me for a bird. So owl or buzzard possibly

Owls and buzzards are birds

It's a latrine sure with multiple depositions rather than one big poo.

Is it under a tree/eaves etc? I suspect there's a nesting site above and the female is pooing out of her nest

Thank God for a non Corona thread! Taking animal poo is a nice change

Some kind of large bird.

Do you have bored family? You can set up a look out rotation to see what it is

Owls and buzzards are big birds hence 'It looks big poo to me for a bird'

Wood pigeon nest from a great height