I was talking about the shadow. Lol
This is why they poop is there

There is a farm lane to the left of the pic

I'm new to this. Bobcat? I found it right on the stump as it is in the picture. I can't imagine anything else squatting on a stump. Lots of little bones in it as well.

wetdog,

Canines, and coyotes, in particular, will leave droppings on roads and gravel or dirt lanes, not only where they cross them, but also where they know the droppings will be seen by other coyotes traveling that travel them. The more open and bare a road is, the more a dropping will stand out.
Coyotes instinctively know this.
They are claiming this road as theirs.
A boundary marker, of sorts.
Canines mark boundaries of territories with droppings as well as urine.
They also mark points of interest.
'Scent' will cause them to do this and knowing that, can be beneficial to the observant trapper.
Even 'scent' you place !

HoosierTrapper07,
Bobcat droppings are usually segmented, like a 'tootsie roll'.

Good info Lt. I collect poop and the poop maker's there every year

Have you ever seen where a mink poops on other poop?
It's mostly on deer but I've seen it on coon and yote also.
Just thought it to be odd.

Has anyone ever seen where a beaver has left scat on dry land?I've never seen this. While all other critters will crap on dry ground or some type of dry surface. Mink like to crap on the top of metal or concrete culverts.

Beav, they like to poop on my mink boxes to.

Yes and have photographed it on coyote scat around pond dams.

Dang, I wish I knew how to post a photo on TMan.
Thousands of photos and can't post a single one.
Where is Wolfie when I need him ?

"Wolfieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. . ."

Fishers like to leave scat on Log Cubbies

HT07, that looks like an owl pellet?

Owl pellets are found beneath trees where owls frequent.
They are not, to the best of my knowledge, found out in the open, (unless you're on the tundra and it's a Snowy Owl.)

A single dropping left behind on a 'cut-off ', is a common occurrence with predators.
In fact, I have mimicked that and caught a good number of coyotes with little more than a dropping on a ground-level stump.

A dark dropping will stand out a long way at a location like this, especially near a clearing or a trail.

Try it sometime on your own trap line with a well-blended trap and you'll be happy with the results.

What is thishere Otter teaching me?
Along the Susquehanna
Old and Fresh droppings on this log...

Where to set a trap? Toilet logs are good places to trap otters.

Anywhere there is a 'toilet station', should tell you that multiple animals are coming there, repeatedly.

In layman's terms : that's a hot shot !

Hey there, it's the second time I have seen this dropping on my property. It's in an area close to my cottage, sandy soil, where there's plenty of voles' tunnels. The animal in question is pooping right on top of collapsed tunnels (both times). I have seen a mink on my property last spring. This piece of crap looks to big for stoat that are common in the area, too small for a cat. I'm quite new to trapping, I have only been trapping squirrels that are like a plague around here. Found it kind of weird. I have set up a live cage with freshly killed squirrel around my brush pile, who knows.

The shadow does. . .





* what makes you think that isn't a red fox, who is actually out there catching those voles ?


That live trap would be far better set up the way they do for bobcats using live bait, but it greatly depends on the size ( height / width ) of the trap.
Not all cage traps are created equal !

It might be, found another dropping that looks like foxes dropping but small.

I think I'm just gonna left it alone if it hunts the rodents. Kind of confused when they would (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman) directly on top of them though lol.

Bump

I've seen way more coyote droppings the morning AFTER an all-night rain, than at any other time...usually in the "same ol' spots".

GPS studies on coyotes have shown that there's lots of coyote movement after a rain.

I'm sure.

but the point I was trying to make is that the new droppings seem to be concentrated in historic areas...places where I've seen them before. not randomly spread out.

it's as if they needed to be "freshened up" following an all-night rain.