Coyote Scat on Wall?

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hominid4

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Hello. We live in a subdivision in southern California (Temecula), we'll see (and hear) a coyote from time to time trotting along the road, crossing the street, etc. Our house is on a through street, and last night we heard a commotion in our backyard as if something was climbing over our wood side fence.

I went out and didn't see anything, but the next morning I found some scat on top of our cement back wall that's along the road. The wall is around 8-10" wide and about 5.5' tall, and the scat is about 4". Could this possibly be a coyote? I was told coyote's use walls such as this to check out the backyards? I've attached some pictures of it. Thanks for any help!

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I worked in the oil fields for 42 years. Many times I saw coyotes walking on insulated pipes.

Right after we got rain many times I would see muddy coyote and fox tracks on top of pipes.

 
While I agree that they absolutely could be running wide block walls, that does not look like a "normal" canid poop to me. I think it is something else. My guess is raccoon or opossum.
 
Hi all, thanks for the replies and references. The main reasons I was leaning toward coyote is all the hair and black color in the scat; and had little white particles throughout but couldn't really tell if they were bone or not. I didn't see any berries or such. Thanks again.
 
It could even be a cat hairball barf. Tough to say, there is no real form to it like feces. If coyotes are gnawing on bones there is usually more of a chalky cast to the stool. This doesn't look as digested as bone fragments usually are coming out of a coyote.
 
Thanks again for the replies. Our friend's friend's dad has been a predator (and other) hunter since a boy, I brought it over to him, he dissected it and did find little fragments of bone, and he's thinking it was a young coyote patrolling backyards and had marked his territory on the wall. As spotstalkshoot mentioned, he thought the hair looked like domestic cat hair.
 
Cat hairball barf will have cat hair in it too from grooming themselves. I guess we'll have to wait for more commotion to see what's making it.
 
I have seen thousands of coyote turds and this does not look like any of them. The fact that it is on top of a 6ft block wall makes me even more doubtful. I think that the odds of a coyote being on that narrow wall AND having to crap so bad that he can't wait to get down seem pretty extreme. House cat barf or raccoon/opossum turd seems most likely. Set up a trailcam.
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I have a big cottonwood tree where the Raccoons sit and eat peaches and crap. It looks like the crap from the wall.
 
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