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1. IDENTIFYING NOCTURNAL ANIMAL SOUNDS EAST TN HOW TO
2. IDENTIFYING NOCTURNAL ANIMAL SOUNDS EAST TN WINDOWS

There was a deck by court 1 where we used to sit after playing to sip a coke and discuss the match. This is a true story…At the tennis center where we used to live a mockingbird lived nearby. Mockingbirds can sing just about any and every song. Mockingbirds will also sing in the middle of the night, but mockingbirds aren’t stuck on one tune like whip-poor-wills. I don’t think the crazy bird even stopped to take a breath. A whip-poor-will on a nearby tree did it’s best to keep us awake all night long. A few years ago my wife and I decided it would be fun to sleep out on the deck and listen to the night sounds. Most birds go to bed at night, but soon you will be hearing whip-poor-wills singing from dust to dawn. I have looked up the formula and it gets you in the neighborhood of the right temperature…but really, you can guess just as close. There is an old southern theory that you can tell the temperature by counting the chirps of a cricket. I think some of them sound like running your fingers across the teeth of a comb.Ĭrickets and Katydids will soon be calling at night. We also have lots of toads around here and they make some pretty unique sounds in the dark of the night. Especially if you live near a wet area you are probably already hearing the tiny little spring peepers and tree frogs. Red and gray foxes sometimes bark like a yappy little dog, just not as long or constant as a yappy little dog.īut the biggest sound at night this time of year is the call of the frogs and toads. I hear them regularly around my house at night.

IDENTIFYING NOCTURNAL ANIMAL SOUNDS EAST TN WINDOWS

We have them right around here and if you have your windows open at night you might hear them. The barred owl’s “who cooks for you” call is loud and will have you sitting straight up in a tent in the middle of the night.Įveryone has heard coyotes on western movies. Their common “whinny” sounds pretty much like a horse whinny. But screech owls have a couple of calls and neither is what you would expect. Owls are easy…they sound like…well, an owl…don’t they? Great-horned owls have a nice low hoo-hoo-hoo like you expect an owl to sound.

IDENTIFYING NOCTURNAL ANIMAL SOUNDS EAST TN HOW TO

Here is a primer on a few night sounds and information on how to identify even more. Night sounds, especially, can be strange, and even scary to humans. Humans, being diurnal, rely more on sight and therefore most of us aren’t as good as animals at hearing and identifying sounds. Mostly males are singing their hearts out to beg for a pretty girl to look their way.įor many animals, sound is how they locate each other, especially nocturnal animals. Many nocturnal animals are beginning to announce their presence with their voice. But waking up doesn’t necessarily mean sleeping at night. It is spring in Tennessee and that means that nature is waking up.