Can anyone identify this animal by droppings?

[Slug]

On top of a fallen tree at waist height:

[cookiesdaughtersdad]

Kinda look like dear droppings but not sure the go at waist Hight on trees?
Anything on the floor like footprints?

Cheers, Alan

[Slug]

Hi there, 100% no deer in this area.
Couldn't find any tracks. The pellets are roughly 5-6mm from memory. The tree is wide enough for a small mammal to travel along but I couldn’t see any obvious route along its length it had bramble and bits of vegetation growing over it I that appeared undisturbed.

[John Milford]

They also look like rabbit droppings - but on a tree trunk?

[stubbojo]

mink perhaps john

[cookiesdaughtersdad]

Hi there, 100% no deer in this area.
Couldn't find any tracks. The pellets are roughly 5-6mm from memory. The tree is wide enough for a small mammal to travel along but I couldn’t see any obvious route along its length it had bramble and bits of vegetation growing over it I that appeared undisturbed.

100% no dear, where are you?

Cheers, Alan

[davelumb]

They also look like rabbit droppings - but on a tree trunk?

Looks like rabbit to me too. If it's a fallen tree a rabbit might be able to hop up on to it.

[Mike J]

Im with Dave, probably a rabbit.
Hopped onto the tree trunk to get a better look around.
All this is assuming you confirmed they were actually droppings and not berries off a nearby tree or bush.

Mink scat are elongated with a tapered end, same as all Mustelidae like stoats, pine martens, weasels etc.

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[Slug]

Ok I suppose yeah must be. It’s crazy though after spending so much time here the only sign of them are these ninja bunny droppings