The Real Poop

Wild Cucumber Seeds?

Well, there's no delicate way to put this, but Cindy found a large cluster of poop outside our back fence the other day.

Covered with poop were some odd looking nuts; strangely familiar looking nuts.  

In fact, I think these are very much like the Marah macrocarpus seeds we found a couple of years ago that had been secreted in the corner of one of the raised beds.

Rodents and birds like Scrub Jays like to cache the seeds, and it looks like some animal may have found one of the caches and eaten the seeds.  Some rather large animal.

And, since all parts of the plant are supposed to be very bitter and cause numbness, somewhere there is probably a varmint with a very bad tummy ache.