Took this audio recording while walking my dogs near a river valley in Central Illinois. The noise I'm not sure about is like a low whooshing sound. Kind of like someone spinning a jump rope really fast through the air.
If I had to guess the noise was on the other side of a 500ft clearing in a tree line. The Merlin app wasn't able to identify it as a bird of any sort and I have no idea what sort of mammal would make this noise in the midwest. It's not like any bobcat, fox, or coyote call I've ever encountered and I cant imagine it was something smaller than that still.
5 Comments
tacotroubles@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
White tailed Deer can make a similar noise when frightened they exhale aggressively through their nose, either to alert other deer of danger or to scare away what ever scared them im not quite sure.
GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social · 7 pts · 1y
That's it! I had no clue that white tailed deer made this noise and I've lived here for 30 years!
tacotroubles@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Yeah, it's not a sound most people hear. It's a bit more common for hikers and hunters to hear it, especially later in the evening.
DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 1y
Chupacabra
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
If I had a nickel every time someone mentioned chupacabra in the past 36 hours, I'd have two nickels. The frequency illusion is sometimes amusing.