I've seen some $hit, I'll tell ya.

[ivarhusa]

Made a few stands in the shrub steppe this morning, and ample evidence of the omniverousness of canis latrans was observed. On one short stretch of farm road I saw three distinctly different types of coyote scat. First was the usual black product from (I presume) eating meat. Second was a pale, rusty red dropping with (I believe) apple peel in it. Third was a new form that I had not seen before.  The scat was packed with tiny seeds, each about the size of a sesame seed. I was guessing a thousand seeds or more in one 'pile'.  I've scratched my head on this, to figure out what he/she could have been eating and come up with the guess of grapes. I don't know how many grapes you'd have to eat to get 1000 seeds, but I would have guessed that the stool wouldn't have been so "well formed" (from my personal experience, that is). What do you think? Any other seed-rich crops out there?

All this was observed at sites at least a mile from irrigated land, and I am not sure how much farther to grapes or apples.  Perhaps another mile or two. (I can't say.) These dogs do get around!

[beagledog]

Cant say I have ever seen that kind
Are there any wild rose bushes around the seed pods off of that would be my guess
Either that or it went to cosco and got a tray of poppyseed muffens  those coyotes are resourcefull

[ICEMAN]

*censored* happens.

[Machias]

It almost sounds like the one with seeds could be coon?   

[boneaddict]

Rose hips.

[rasbo]

no black berries there,these dogs around here are full of them

[WAcoyotehunter]

Rose hips.

My guess too

[ivarhusa]

Interesting guesses, guys. There really isn't any wild blackberry out this way.  Too dry. But that would put lots of seeds into a small package.  I have seen lots of wild rose right along the rivers, but the nearest river shore is about 8 miles away, and across a highway.

I fancied that I saw what could have been grape skins in the poop. Thin, translucent bits. But I am really reaching with that observation.  I could be full of *censored* myself...

I saw multiple instances of this seedy-type dropping, so it wasn't a "one -off" event.

[boneaddict]

snowberries.  They have a grape like skin, but you'd have to be in the mountains probably

[Jerry malbeck]

Juniper berries

[fair-chase]

Juniper berries

 

[Jerry malbeck]

Ivar, not uncommon to find scat containing contents from areas for up to 10 miles in any direction, found carrot scat once in a area that had no carrots up there that i know of , that one really had me scratching my head.
One winter i was guiding a hunt up by moses lake and I called in and my hunter killed a coyote full of apple sauce , not a orchard around for miles , kind makes you wonder sometimes . My hunter asked me ( what is that) I said apple sauce , got a spoon?  
By the way juniper berries are a appetite suppressant.

[gaddy]

black berries are possible, my lab & i were eating them on a regular basis on our daily hikes along the columbia. even several hundred yards from the river. as long as they have a good water source, orchard ect.

[shoot-em-dead]

Seeds could be from all of the above or- Coyote at a bird. Birds eat seeds.

[JackOfAllTrades]

grape skins in the poop. Thin, translucent bits. But I am really reaching with that observation.  I could be full of *censored* myself...

Yotes rummage through garbage all the time.   But, I like the possibility that the scat is showing you what the critter that got eaten by the yote ate.

-Steve

[ivarhusa]

I lean toward explanations that involve commercially cultivated crops.  I believe, now, that grape seeds would be too large.  That each scat was so homogeneously FULL of these seeds tells me that the full meal was from one source. This suggested plenitude, not a mix of "seeds and mice" for example, that might have been casually foraged.

I took a look at a garden variety (literally) juniper bush's seeds, and I can't imaging a critter being able to harvest so many such berries in one sitting (*censored*ting?). There are only two seeds per berry, and the berries are pretty small and distributed around the bush somewhat sparely.  Again, this is in our garden, and not looking at wild plants, so I could be wrong here.

[BIGINNER]

It almost sounds like the one with seeds could be coon?   

i was gonna say the same thing, 

[brew]

bought a place about a year ago that has apple, pear and cherries growing in the backyard along with some grapes (not sure of the kind) have seen/shot yotes in the backyard "buffeting" on them all...don't think it matters what they eat as long as it fills their belly...crop depredation !

[Backstrap]

I had a coyote pile in my back yard that was mostly seed. Most likely the seeds were from a bird feeder, because there were a couple sunflower seeds in it. Coyotes will eat anything...

[high country]

seen a coyote eat a watemelon on the vine....funny thing to watch. I had to settle down in order to kill him