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XCskiNYC
11-11-2009, 16:25
A couple of nights back staying at the Stewart Hollow Brook Lean-to along the Housatonic River in CT, I heard an animal crying in the night.
A couple of times it did a noise that sounded like a dog barking, but higher pitched than a typical dog bark. Mostly it did this high, plaintive wail that was like:
Woot-wut-wooooooooooh
BTW, in the shelter register somebody mentioned that in the farm field about a mile north of the lean-to, immediately west of the trail, they saw what looked like either a fox or a coyote.
saimyoji
11-11-2009, 16:30
screetch owl?
if it sounded like a coyote howling, it probably was. coyotes are very prevelent in that part of CT and its fairly common to hear them howling at night.
XCskiNYC, I was at Mount Algo Lean-to on Saturday... heard a ton of Coyotes that were howling like that.
I've got family that live at the top of skiff mountain... there's a ton of Coyotes that live toward the northern end of that mountain near a few lakes around there.
Wise Old Owl
11-11-2009, 17:15
coyote- as foxes bark more than they howl
neighbor dave
11-11-2009, 17:18
sounds like a billville gathering;):D
Definitely a coyote. I've heard them many times down here in Texas.
XCskiNYC
11-11-2009, 20:46
XCskiNYC, I was at Mount Algo Lean-to on Saturday... heard a ton of Coyotes that were howling like that.
I've got family that live at the top of skiff mountain... there's a ton of Coyotes that live toward the northern end of that mountain near a few lakes around there.
Were you with the scout group camping there?
XCskiNYC
11-11-2009, 20:59
screetch owl?
No, I don't think so. I didn't transcribe the sound so well. The t's are more to indicate that the first two parts were cut off sharply while the end part was a more drawn-out wail
Check these sounds out, then report back..........
http://www.soundboard.com/sb/Wild_Coyote_sounds.aspx
Or Great Horned Owl perhaps?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUy-RsUXJ00
Johnny Thunder
11-11-2009, 23:10
Let me stop you right there...if you're on the AT and you hear an animal call that you don't recognize it is 100% always a Georgia Mountain Monkey. Now some may say there's no such thing as a Georgia Mountain Monkey; so I will say this: what my post presupposes is...Maybe there is? Maybe there isn't. Plus, 80% of the time, I'm right every time.
Were you with the scout group camping there?
I wasn't "with" them but yes they ended up staying there as well...
http://imgur.com/C3vtZ.jpg
All told, I'd say there were literally 13 tents at Mt. Algo on Saturday Night...
[quote=XCskiNYC;918288]A couple of nights back staying at the Stewart Hollow Brook Lean-to along the Housatonic River in CT, I heard an animal crying in the night.
Mostly it did this high, plaintive wail that was like:
Woot-wut-wooooooooooh
quote]
Could this be bigfoot doing an imitation of Curly from the Three Stooges?
XCskiNYC
11-12-2009, 11:29
I wasn't "with" them but yes they ended up staying there as well...
http://imgur.com/C3vtZ.jpg
All told, I'd say there were literally 13 tents at Mt. Algo on Saturday Night...
My tent was the green one up in Site 1, or whichever one is the farthest up to the north, a bit away from the central part.
Those scouts were well behaved. I totally slept through their early-am departure.
XCskiNYC
11-12-2009, 11:34
Check these sounds out, then report back..........
http://www.soundboard.com/sb/Wild_Coyote_sounds.aspx
That is it indeed. The only difference I'd say is these CT coyotes drew out the end wail longer.
Could they have been saying "Another darn payment on my Beeeeeeeamer!":D
Okay, little attempt at CT humor there.
Seriously, the combination of the bark and then the wail, the character of the sound, pretty much identical.
That's a cool site. Gonna bookmark that one.
neighbor dave
11-12-2009, 11:39
Let me stop you right there...if you're on the AT and you hear an animal call that you don't recognize it is 100% always a Georgia Mountain Monkey. Now some may say there's no such thing as a Georgia Mountain Monkey; so I will say this: what my post presupposes is...Maybe there is? Maybe there isn't. Plus, 80% of the time, I'm right every time.
or a sidehill gouger
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/animals/comments/4357/
XCskiNYC
11-12-2009, 11:57
No guys, you got it all wrong. It's actually the Georgian Space Monkeys. But what's confusing is, their biggest population center is in the State of Georgia in the United States of America but they were actually recruited by the Russians for Soyuz 2.1 from the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.
After the naturalists rounded these guys up from a small forest just south of T'bilisi, they were rigorously trained in the ways of Soviet Primate Astronaut Masters.
The disaster is that, while the primates were very thoroughly trained in reading, speaking, and writing in Russian, the legends on their space maps were actually in Serbo-Croatian (and not the cyrillic kind either!).
The launch went smoothly enough. Launches are always smooth. You just sit back, tighten your monkey seat-belt, and hope the darn thing doesn't explode fifteen feet off the launch pad.
But while navigating to the moon, the monkeys became terribly lost. Recognizing what they thought was the shape of their homeland of the GSSR, they set retro-rockets to go in that direction. What they did not realize was that, through a homonym error, they were actually headed for an area in the northern part of the U.S. State of Georgia, not too many miles north of a town called Gainesville, not too many feet up the side of a Mountain Called Springer (Springer in Roman-Alphabet Serbo-Croatian looks very much like Monkey Gambling Casino and Rest Home).
The rest, the rest, as they say, is monkey astronaut history.
Were you the guy who came in last to camp carrying some birch?
I agree, for scouts they were very well behaved.