• Hamartia@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    We used to have a neighborhood Jay that would mimic cats by meowing at them. Freaked me out the first time I heard it. They later lost all of their head feathers. Such a crazy bird.

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    8 days ago

    What one makes a whoowhoowhoowhoo sound as it flies? Almost sounds like a deep whistle laugh and I don’t think it’s a loon

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      8 days ago

      Might be a swan. Heard one circling a lake once at night and didn’t know what the fuck I was hearing. Like a weird nasally wing sound. Like a giant bat or something.

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        8 days ago

        I had a similar experience; not sure what the culprit was but I was trying to walk to my car at night while visiting grandparents deep in the woods. It was fairly dark and I only heard flapping but I could tell it was BIG by the sound and freaked me the fuck out

        It got to my lizard brain and after trying to work up the courage to leave the safety of the front deck for a good ten minutes, I decided to head back in and just stay the night

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          7 days ago

          That would freak me out too. Your grandparents don’t live in the New Jersey pine barrens, do they?

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            6 days ago

            No they don’t

            It made zero other sound other than big, slow flapping that I could hear passing back and forth

            If it had made some sort of call I’d have been much more comfortable