Results 1 to 10 of 10

Thread: Weird scat

  1. #1
    Join Date
    Feb 2017
    Posts
    34

    Weird scat

    So up above Mackenzie where I was just hunting I saw a ton of this scat, I looked up on Google and people seem to say it is grouse but I have a hard time believing that as the piles are much bigger then what a grouse should be pooping out. Click image for larger version. 

Name:	Grouse_scat_Web-452x288.jpg 
Views:	462 
Size:	42.1 KB 
ID:	6357

  2. Site Sponsor

  3. #2
    Join Date
    Mar 2005
    Location
    Abby
    Posts
    1,781

    Re: Weird scat

    I havent seen it clumped together like that.. but it looks like the goose poop you find on soccer fields in the LML
    Get it on the ground, that's when the work starts

  4. #3
    Join Date
    Sep 2011
    Location
    Fort Fraser BC
    Posts
    138

    Re: Weird scat

    It's grouse. Where they bed down for the night in the snow(they burrow under the snow to stay warm), they leave piles that look about half the size of the bird itself. I guess in the morning they are much less full of it

    Darcy

  5. #4
    Join Date
    Feb 2017
    Posts
    34

    Re: Weird scat

    Wow I never thought such a tiny bird could poop out that much. I mean that's a big pile of crap. I'm really happy human poop ratio isn't that big.

  6. #5
    Join Date
    Sep 2011
    Location
    Fort Fraser BC
    Posts
    138

    Re: Weird scat

    Quote Originally Posted by Joshua13 View Post
    Wow I never thought such a tiny bird could poop out that much. I mean that's a big pile of crap. I'm really happy human poop ratio isn't that big.
    Haha! Only with politicians is the ratio close to that......and it spews forth from a different location than normal!

    Darcy

  7. #6
    Join Date
    Sep 2012
    Location
    Kamloops
    Posts
    556

    Re: Weird scat

    correct on the chicken sh*t, Saw a couple this winter completely buried, driving down the road one popped its head up and looked around, creeped up in the truck and boom a couple popped out of the snow, took a look and big piles at the bottom of each hole. Never knew what they were when I saw them in the summer, now I do. They were buried under a good bit of snow but had a little cavern down there.

  8. #7
    Join Date
    Dec 2007
    Location
    is everything!
    Posts
    2,837

    Re: Weird scat

    Quote Originally Posted by Joshua13 View Post
    Wow I never thought such a tiny bird could poop out that much. I mean that's a big pile of crap. I'm really happy human poop ratio isn't that big.
    I saw a bunch of these piles last weekend when I went to collect my game cams from sitting out for the winter. I thought maybe a ground squirrel, but grouse makes better sense as there are lots around and I saw a big one sitting on a log not far from my camera.

    Talking about poop to body ratios, when I was a boy I saw my half grown kitten make a pile half the size of his own body! He made a heck of a sound pushing it out and it looked near human size in diameter.
    caddisguy "I worry about predators wanting to eat me or bucks trying to take my manhood. "How was your hunting trip honey" ... "wahh I don't want to talk about it... sob ""

  9. #8
    Join Date
    May 2012
    Location
    Region 4
    Posts
    474

    Re: Weird scat

    Thats classic Turkey scat, white tips and way to much to be a grouse. Ive seen it in the kootenays too
    - A hunter who doesn't bring home the meat is just an outdoor enthusiast

  10. #9
    Join Date
    Sep 2014
    Location
    7-15
    Posts
    135

    Re: Weird scat

    No turkeys around Mackenzie. Find this from time to time and never would have thought grouse. Learn something new everyday.

  11. #10
    Join Date
    Apr 2016
    Posts
    41

    Re: Weird scat

    Definitely grouse. ��������

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •