There is still one tree left that is dropping apples - and I am not the only one who is gathering them! Yesterday I knelt down the gather a bag full up apples for some potential apple sauce, I could see that deer had been there amongst other critters nibbling the fruit too. When I leaned forward to grab a nice dark red apple I saw rabbit scat (poop) in three piles right ahead of me.
The scat was obviously fresh and from my point of view I could see a well worn thin trail...
I followed the trail carefully looking for more evidence, after about 10 feet of winding i found a half eaten apple. :) It was freshly eaten within a 1-2 hours, the apples falling wild from the trees turn brown really fast once open.
Then next to some rocks i found more apple bits, but these much were older. Possibly the rabbit's compost pile. ;)
And there was the hole... where the rabbit stays! Awwww, cute.
What an awesome place to live!
XOXO
There is still one tree left that is dropping apples - and I am not the only one who is gathering them! Yesterday I knelt down the gather a bag full up apples for some potential apple sauce, I could see that deer had been there amongst other critters nibbling the fruit too. When I leaned forward to grab a nice dark red apple I saw rabbit scat (poop) in three piles right ahead of me.
The scat was obviously fresh and from my point of view I could see a well worn thin trail...
I followed the trail carefully looking for more evidence, after about 10 feet of winding i found a half eaten apple. :) It was freshly eaten within a 1-2 hours, the apples falling wild from the trees turn brown really fast once open.
Then next to some rocks i found more apple bits, but these much were older. Possibly the rabbit's compost pile. ;)
And there was the hole... where the rabbit stays! Awwww, cute.
What an awesome place to live!
XOXO
3 comments:
that is deer scat. and the "compost pile" is regurgitated apple. deer will often gorge themselves in high traffic areas and then barf it up to eat it later in a safe spot to reduce their risk.
Hey Panne!
I thought deer scat was a bit bigger balls? I will have to check on this! Both deer and bunny run around quite a bit right there (that i have actually seen) - i did see some other scat right nearby too, which looked more like a cow patty but a smaller one(liquidy and not formed)... i wondered if the deers were getting mushy poop from eating tons of apples?
I did think the "compost pile" looked like barf though. Thanks for the info on the gorging. :)
the cow patty looking scat was from over consumption most likely. rabbit scat won't clump together unless the animal is ill. it looks like cocoa puffs 99% of the time.
deer scat most times isn't clumped and is very similar to goat scat. the clumping is due to excessive fruit in their diet.
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