night sounds

[Anonymous Poster]

I grew up in the country and I've always heard sounds at night, but never really knew what they are from. Most of them are crickets and frogs I guess. Does anybody know what the various sounds are from? I live in a rural part of southern Indiana and it gets really loud in the summer!

 

[Bird]

Danny, some I recognize and some I don't/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif; crickets, frogs, coyotes, whipoorwills, owls, and a few other birds maybe.

Bird

 

[Anonymous Poster]

I just found out it's likely that one of the sounds is a "katydid", which is a type of grasshopper. Someone suggested some type of tree frogs might be making some of the sounds. I don't know if a tree frog sounds different than other frogs or not.

 

[TerryinMD]

Add to that cattle, cats, locusts(cicadaes), kadydids, and loud thumpin' noises from teenage car sound systems /w3tcompact/icons/mad.gif.

 

[looch]

I also would like to find the source of a "night sound" I hear often in early summer at night. It sounds like a long and low referee's whistle. That's about all I've got for a description. Anyone?

 

[Bird]

Yeah, we have the cattle, just once in awhile a cat, just a few katydids, and fortunately we're too far from town to have the loud teenage car sounds./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Bird

 

[TerryinMD]

<font color=blue>It sounds like a long and low referee's whistle.</font color=blue>

I think that the sound might be coming from a small frog called a peeper. In Maryland, they come out as early as February, but typically early spring. The closer you get to water, the more abundant they are.

 

[GlueGuy]

Mostly crickets here, but all the rest are common too. Lots of little critters in the bushes.

BTW - There is at least one cricket that gives an excellent approximation of the temperature. With the "Snowy Tree Cricket", count the number of chirps in 15 seconds, and add 40. This is a close approximation of the temperature in degrees Fahrenheit.

For more info, click here.

The GlueGuy

 

[Bill_Ryan]

Ever hear porcupines get excited.....they make a racket.

Love the sound of owls too (especially a good screech owl).

Or how about a pileated woodpecker (jungle bird sound)?

Bill in NH

 

[ERNIEB]

The creatures around here are pretty quiet. The usual stuff. I don't have any here, but when I was a teenager we had alot of what we called bullbats. A bird that makes a buzzing noise when it dives after insects.
I have badgers here, but I've never heard a peep out of them. Maybe they're mute. In fact I have only seen one once. I know they are here because of the holes they dig. They always dig 3 holes.

Ernie