ORIGINAL: Wingbone
The droppings tend to look that way when deer eat a lot of succulent vegetation. Food with a lot of roughage creates the classic pellets.
Yeah, I know. But this was like the size of a dinner plate in diameter. I've seen a lot of cow pies and know what they look like, and I've never seen a "deer pie" like that before. I kicked it open and it consisted of mostly vegetation.