What made this turd?

[C_Claycomb]

There has been a repeat large turd like this, in the same spot on my parents’ lawn. There was one on Sunday morning, and having removed it, there is another there this morning.
We are thinking that the size and repeats suggest fox, but we have never had such a persistent fox before. We are also puzzled by the green colour, very soft texture and the white stuff.

The garden is on the edge of town, south Leicestershire, small lawn with big shrubs and hedges/fences on two sides.

Any ideas? If fox, what the heck has it been eating?

 

[slowworm]

Possibly a pheasant. It looks like the large dropping a hen will do when it is sitting on eggs. It pops off to feed and produces a large dropping. It'll smell strongly of urea rather than foxy. We still have a hen pheasant sitting on eggs somewhere.

 

[British Red]

Possibly a pheasant. It looks like the large dropping a hen will do when it is sitting on eggs. It pops off to feed and produces a large dropping. It'll smell strongly of urea rather than foxy. We still have a hen pheasant sitting on eggs somewhere.

I would agree, bird of some description, the urea streaking is typical

 

[C_Claycomb]

We thought it looked bird like, but too big for the usual garden visitors.

 

[slowworm]

A dropping from a broody hen pheasant can be 5 or 10 times the size of a normal dropping. Rather than wondering around passing a dropping every few minutes it'll sit on a nest for several hours and then pass a massive, smelly, dropping whilst looking for food for a few minutes before going back to the nest.

 

[C_Claycomb]

Any ideas how far such a hen will travel from nest to latrine site? 50m? more, less?

My parents have food out for the birds, so there is a reason to come to the garden for a pheasant looking for a feed.

 

[slowworm]

A good few hundred yards, we have a hen currently doing this. She is nesting over the road and in a back of a field. She's started visiting us as the field she was next to has been harvested so probably less food about.

 

[Chris]

A dropping from a broody hen pheasant can be 5 or 10 times the size of a normal dropping. Rather than wondering around passing a dropping every few minutes it'll sit on a nest for several hours and then pass a massive, smelly, dropping whilst looking for food for a few minutes before going back to the nest.

So it’s either a pheasant or a teenage boy.

 

[demented dale]

its a bird. emu or ostrich for defo. x

 

[C_Claycomb]

At least you didn't tell me it was a small dinosaur