Sounds you’ve never heard before

[Robert Alston]

I'm suprised no one has mentioned a porcupine. One woke me up on a trip as it sounded like a baby wailing. They are very vocal and have a variety of sounds that they can make.

Found this clip online.

[Leigh Baker]

I hadn't ever heard a fox at night until about a month ago, didn't know what it was until a friend told me….very interesting. Two weeks ago I decided to test my opsak. I'd had tuna for lunch and left the foil pouch closed up in the opsak along with my breakfast bar for the next morning. Hung it in my food bag. In the wee hours of the next morning I was awakened by an incredible racket, and all I could think of was, "yeah, somethings fighting over my food bag, and now I'm minus my breakfast"….it was a short hike out, so I didn't have much to lose. Turned out that wasn't the case, it wasn't disturbed…but something, likely raccoons were having a dispute over something.

@ Ken, Thanks for the warm thoughts… you are, of course right :)

[Jake D]

Not that i've "never heard" but I had an owl hooting at night in northern VT on the Long Trail. Was fun to hear it away from the normal town/house noises.

[Nico .]

The sounds that mountain lions can make is downright spooky. Sounds like a crying child. Any time I hear it, it instantly makes the hair on the back of my neck stand straight up. There's certain areas around here that have something of a reputation for visits from the big cats. You hear stories of people claiming "bad" feelings about these camps or that they're haunted… and they always mention the sound of a child crying off in the distance.

I encountered a new sound (for me) this weekend… The wind was blowing so hard and steady all night, it made my guylines vibrate at just the right frequency to make a whistling sound. Definitely not spooky or mysterious, but a new experience nonetheless.

[t.darrah]

My young daughter's continued begging and pleading for me to take her out hiking ever since we completed our first shared overnight adventures.

[Duane Hall]

Believe it or not, a beaver can make the strangest wailing sound. The first time I heard it at night I didn't know what was coming for me :)

[jimmyjam]

A couple of wierd sounding animals I've run across are a bobcat which sounded like a baby crying and a couple of opossums that were calling to each other.

[Ben C]

Often while backpacking in the Smokies, I have heard sounds that are so low in tone (not volume)that I am not sure if I really heard it. And its a drumming sound. Eventually I followed it and found a group of grouse "drumming" to call the other sex. Its like a fast drumming but so low in tone its barely audible.

[Edward Z]

My first Mountain Lion scream fest was downright spooky. As for the noisy beaver… well I'll leave that one alone.

[BlackHatGuy]

An orgasm. But I am trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong…..

[David Lutz]

Doug, I've been waiting patiently for you to get in on this, what took so long?

[Stephen M]

A Hr person with empathy

[David Ure]

Had an Elk in rut scream its mating call right next to my tent. I had heard that before. What I hadn't heard before was my girlish scream.

[Stephen M]

Good man Dave :-)

[Franco Darioli]

Thinking about this…
One night I had a koala not far above my tent.
Every so often he would wake up and do a bit of a song and dance (mating call) then fall asleep again.
He had done that from late afternoon.
At some point during the night I heard the koala make a different sound and then heard a loud cat like growl, not a domestic/wild cat but something bigger than that.
By the time I got out of the tent to investigate it was gone and so was the koala.
No idea of what it was

[Roger Caffin]

> At some point during the night I heard the koala make a different sound and then
> heard a loud cat like growl, not a domestic/wild cat but something bigger than that.
> By the time I got out of the tent to investigate it was gone and so was the koala.
Found a mate maybe?

Cheers

[Franco Darioli]

Don't know but was a very high pitch not at all like the sort of noises I have heard a koala make .
Somewhat like the sound of a Tasmanian Devil (fighting) except that we were in the Otway (Victoria)

[Eugene Smith]

The bone chilling sobs of La Llorona.

[Justin Baker]

I was hiking around off trail in my local state park. It was getting dark, I was just trying to get back home. I was passing through a section of the woods where there must have been 100 turkeys all going crazy and gobbling. It was very disturbing. Like a giant turkey music festival. Then, out of nowhere, I hear a person let out a bloodthirsty yell and the sounds of turkeys fleeing. Some weirdo was out there in the dark stalking turkeys like some kind of feral tarzan man. I think he heard me walking after that and hid from me.

[Roger Caffin]

Hi Franco

Otways eh?
Probably a Geelong supporter after a bad result.

Cheers

[Sharon J.]

Around sunset on a dayhike in Briones, a regional park that while surrounded by urban development, is known to contain cougars, bobcats, coyotes, etc., I heard something I've not been able to identify by listening to various audio clips. By far the closest match is Robert Plant's screech at the beginning of Immigrant Song. (abbreviated, about two seconds of arraaaaaaaaaahh!, repeated)

[jimmyjam]

One of my favorite sounds is that of the loon. I never heard one until I got to go camping in the BWCA years ago. You guys up north probably don't think any of it because you hear it all the time- but I really thought it was such a cool sound.

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