What is this?

[waterpossum]

I was at Stockton Lake Saturday  just above the high water shore line and happened on approximately 20 of these.  The clay is real fine in mounds anywhere from 6 to 12 inches high and some about 2 ft. across. i have never seen fire ants around the lake, but that's what came to my mind. They were just so close to the lake I had a hard time understanding why ants would be that close to water.

[Walcrabass]

Waterpossum,

  You may be right................... Fire Ants.................... probably getting close to the water in case the Fire gets out of control...............

 

Walcrabass

[MoCarp]

if they were fire ants they be dead now they don't deal with 32 degrees much less -7.......I have seen some ground hornet nests like that once hard to get scale with this pic

[tjm]

last summers crawdad mounds weathered down over the winter? Hard for me to tell much by pictures, I'd have to be there.

[wtr dogs]

Armadilia -diggings for worms??

[dprice]

1 hour ago, waterpossum said:

I was at Stockton Lake Saturday  just above the high water shore line and happened on approximately 20 of these.  The clay is real fine in mounds anywhere from 6 to 12 inches high and some about 2 ft. across. i have never seen fire ants around the lake, but that's what came to my mind. They were just so close to the lake I had a hard time understanding why ants would be that close to water.

Gopher mounds 

[waterpossum]

I'll be back up there soon and will get a little better pictures.  These were about a mile north of Y bridge on the west side of the lake. 

[dan hufferd]

I ran around Alabama as a kid, I decided to run through the pine woods kicking those things (fire ant mounds). Don't do that !  

I have seen better pictures of bigfoot,  but I would guess fire ants as well.

[dprice]

Check and see if remnants of egg sacs

Armadillos  would eat ants  And especially birds  skunks  and anything else hungry enough in the last 24 days  Would have scattered this area surely 

lots of roots present there in the pick  is why I consider the fabled   Ground  gophers  

[audiochem]

Momo manure