What is this?

[Ham]

1 hour ago, BilletHead said:

            So we have papa mole, mama mole and baby mole going down their mole hole. Papa mole says I smell sorghum . Farther down the hole mama mole says hey, I smell sorghum. They all travel a little farther when baby mole says, cue drum roll.

   Baby mole says all I smell is molasses 

BilletHead

👏🏻    We’re not worthy 

[waterpossum]

22 hours ago, straw hat said:

If it has an opening next to it then I would think it is excavation dirt from woodchucks, gophers or other burrowing animals, if not I would lean toward ants, moles or foraging animals like armadillos or bear but on those cases you can usually see the dig marks. If you think it might be from a digging animal then closely look at the mound, real close and you should be able to see any hairs left by the animal when digging. If you find hairs try and take a picture of them against a white sheet of paper and I should be able to identify it if I can tell the colors.

No excavation dirt around the dirt. I'm confident it's not made by any digging animal. 

[CoolHandFluke]

15 hours ago, Ham said:

👏🏻    We’re not worthy 

[straw hat]

9 hours ago, waterpossum said:

No excavation dirt around the dirt. I'm confident it's not made by any digging animal. 

I guess that leaves moles. All we need now is a good dermatologist to remove the ugly things.

[dprice]

I hit a  bar at darnadelle one day   Looked similar  but it was mud 

[lundone]

I live not far from that hill of dirt and we have many mounds just like it and they all have ants crawling all over them.

[straw hat]

I can't believe they are fire ants. That would be far to north for them. You can never tell though how a species will adapt. That would be a bummer as they play heck with cows that stumble into them.

[MoCarp]

if they are fire ants they are adapted to cold...that would be a VERY bad thing 

[grizwilson]

Do not think they are fire ants the mounds are larger not as close together seen similar 25 years ago near Crane found morels near by ???

[dprice]

I think It was dug when It was dry  by the soil density    However it still looks fresh as can be          While I type this I admit haven’t looked at the photo for a week and this is all memory . Scavengers such as opossum and armadillos  are  generally shallow diggers  for grubs and worms  and such    Mostly seems to take place near grasses 

The only other thing I have considered and posted the darnadelle  troubles  was it was 

possum practicing with a ice fishing auger ??