Night Sounds

**OldnSlow** · 10-15-2007, 20:38

It wasn't the NOISE that scared the critter off....

Its not the smell.....Its the burning of the eyes!(he he he)

**ZDP-189** · 10-23-2007, 13:39

last time I went camping, there were some strange sounds. First there was some lowing from what I presume to be deer. Then all through the night I would hear occasional sentences uttered quietly. I was the only person up there and you can only camp in official campsites by law, so I was pretty confused, especially as there was no light. Later, a friend told me they were probably sandlewood poachers.

**Rapt** · 10-23-2007, 14:08

That sort of noise would make me more nervous than any animal... People are dangerous

**johnnyquest** · 10-23-2007, 14:18

there isnt much scarier a sound as a buck deer snorting and pawing when he gets your scent and cant figure out what you are. not usually very dangeroous but sounds like satan himself.

**Fiddleback** · 10-24-2007, 15:18

At night around here, every breaking stick in the forest...every splash in the stream...is a heavy stepping grizzly. Funny thing is...it doesn't happen during the day time.

FB

**lyleb** · 10-24-2007, 17:27

Was out last weekend, only problem I had was the last night, camped on the shore of a lake. Plenty of wildlife around, coyotes, deer, owls, etc. but the problem critters were the 13-lined ground squirrels.

They apparently discovered that climbing the tree I was hanging from, then crawling down the webbing to the insect netting and seeing how far across the netting they could run until sliding off was fun. They then must have told their friends, cause I had about five wakings like this - they made a nasty racket right over my head. Lucky there was no damage to the netting.

**Cannibal** · 10-24-2007, 18:04

I have a family of 4 squirrels that LOVE to race across the ridgeline of my HH. They wait until I'm not in it (usually), but I watch them through the window of the house and laugh.

**jeffjenn** · 10-24-2007, 18:45

Originally Posted by NCPatrick

Ok, snorting, stamping hooves and screaming cat sound... what kind of animal is that? With my luck I'd have to really go 'water the bushes' right about then...

I have only heard the "screaming cat sound" once in my life, & can say if I heard it again near my hammock in the middle of the night it probably wouldn't be the bushes getting "watered"