An odd trail observation; Navy blue Scat !

[Chip]

Snowshoeing Monday on a nice piece of state property near me I came across a first; a patch of blue stained snow revealed fresh blue scat. Larger, longer and less regular than deer pellets, about an inch or so in length. In the area there were rabbit, turkey, squirrel, fox, deer and coyote tracks in the fresh snow. There were also tracks I figured were a feral cat or bobcat, but I failed to examine the "blued" area well for tracks.
Any theories ?

 

[TMax]

Some animal got into a hikers blue M&M's or crayons?

 

[giggy]

how about the cookie monster or grover? just joking chip - happy new year

 

[CrisisBill]

Smurf droppings?

 

[Amicus]

Blue bear scat

Hiking a trail in the Green Hills Reservation in No. Conway in October, I encountered a fresh plop of navy blue bear scat on a ledge, which puzzled me. Bears love blueberries but this was a good month after the last blueberries, I'd estimate. Do they stash them somehow?

 

[snowshoe]

A second the smurf droppings.

 

[Chip]

Ha ! Clever campers, smurfs and cookie monsters !
But did they scat, or were they scatted ?

I'm thinking a racoon got into some blue frosting, but I like your ideas better.

 

[Jay H]

Do the Blue Man Group hike?



Jay

 

[jade]

Maybe it was from a navy seal.........

 

[Pete_Hickey]

Blueberries give a dark blue color. It is hard to tell it is blue, unless you smear it (don'T ask me how I know). I would think that a blue color would come from some artificial food dye. Maybe a lost bag of Garorade mix powder.

Smurfs are extinct in the NE.

 

[Stan]

Babe the Blue Ox? Since Paul stole that truck Babe's been wondering about aimlessly.

Might expect that color scat from a summer diet of berries but this time of year Internal bleeding can darken a stool considerably. Were there a lot of empty ibuprofen or whiskey bottles around?