First night in hammock, freaked out by sound in woods.

[SavageX89]

He's alive!!!

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[Trecker8]

Man up, bro

[Equalizer]

I'm really concerned about Obie.
This was the last thing heard from him.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C6dMypaOpJc

You're OK?
Awesome possum!
You had me worried man.
😂
Just keep your camera ready just in case.... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kdp6LE76tXk

Just remember that they are more scared of YOU than you are of them.

[J.young]

about 20 years ago I spent a bit of time up in northern Washington state and BC. my hiking partner at the time tended to sweat profusely. multiple times deer would sneak into camp and try to steal his sweat soaked clothes he had hung out to dry. attracted to the salt. that snort/ Huff noise is just them telling you to go back to sleep while they chew holes in your favorite shirt)))

[Slackdaddy]

I know the deer snort all to well,, I hear it every fall while hunter. As I awake from a slumber in my tree stand and scare off a deer or 2.
Bard Owls, once had about 4-5 of them circled around me all calling out to each other. sounded exactly like a pack of moneys

Slack

[FJRpilot]

You all are killing me.... this is the one of the best threads in a long time...


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[jeff-oh]

Couple weeks ago I was all alone in a very, very isolated forest grove, first time in the area. Days before, that bicyclist had been killed by a mountain lion a hundred miles north in the same mountains, so a little spooked. Moonless dark, just turned off headlamp in hammock zipped up. Silence. Ahhhh. Then all a sudden, screaming! Close! Not human. Apelike. I nearly peed myself over the next minute studying the sound, groping for my knife just in case. Figure it had to be a bird, unlike any I'd heard before. Fortunately it stopped. I slept, eventually.

Next day I Googled around and pegged it as a barred owl, my first: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN9DAaGMmfg (turn it up for full effect!). I've been to the same spot and near a few times since: now I WANT to hear it again. It obliged once, but from much further away than the first time. Apparently they're quite territorial so likely the same bird.

I know them well we have several around the house. I love the talk of the owls. You can tell the sex of the owls based on the call. The males are straight tones in their calls and the females have that rolling R sound at the end of their calls. In the video you posted the main call at the beginning is a male with female calls in the back ground. In the last 15 seconds or so the female calls are front and center. I learned this little tid-bit from Thane Maynard, director of the Cincinnati, Zoo and a great person. We have a 250-300 year old pin oak down in the creek bottom and several years we've had a brood of owls in that tree. It is fun watching the young owlets hopping among the branches.

I do know what you mean. one night I was walking around the house after dark and was 5 feet from one hen it pronounced itself very assertively.... After I jumped out of my skin the brain informed my soul that it could come back as it was only an owl..... Still laugh at that one.

[Equalizer]

Quote Originally Posted by Obiecamper
It looks like a ... but I saw two lights next to each other not blinking. They moved together and bounced up and down a few times. Are those eyes?!!! That's it. Thats the noise. So...I think hanging here I'm going to get mauled by ......
Agggghhhhhh..."

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C6dMypaOpJc[/QUOTE]


I've got an owl on my place. Lived here many years.
Surprising how loud. But don't mind it so much as the dogs that people keep outside bark for hours...
....oh the solitude of country living. 🙄

But then again, in WV there's supposed to be a lot of Moth Man sightings. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj1rk0E9JR8

Do you have anything like this in your neck of the woods?
Obie did say something about the eyes.... The eyes..... "

Obiecamper, no offense. I'm not making fun of you or your experience.
Just funny because it's easy to identify with the situation.
It's one of the things that makes camping interesting and memorable.

[hutzelbein]

I like the nightly sounds of the forest and only wear ear plugs when there is too much human noise. But the first time I camped in the Adirondacks with no other human around for miles, and heard a couple of loons calling to each other across the lakes, I thought it must be a pack of crazy werewolves That was a bit scary, until I figured out what it was.

[jeff-oh]

But then again, in WV there's supposed to be a lot of Moth Man sightings.

Mothman, I love the mothman... Point Pleasant, WV is his home turf.

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