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answered your question “OK. 4am. Asleep in the ger. It’s 4am. It’s cold (got down to 51F last…”
if I’d heard that here in France, I’d reckon it was a deer (which bark), or a wild boar (which also bark, and if they’re anything like our pigs, kind of grumble/growl when hungry - and would also be attracted by blood)
winterling42 answered: could it be a cougar? I know those are mostly a west-coast thing…
So, I’ve heard deer barking before, and this wasn’t it. I’ve also never heard of deer growling. Also, there are pigs on this farm, and I’m pretty familiar with the noises they make, and this wasn’t that.
Cougars are largely unknown in this area since the 19th century, though it’s not impossible. They have such a range of vocalizations, though.
There *is* a bobcat den, confirmed, about a mile to the east. It could be one of those; they’ve been sighted on this property. My sister tracked one by pawprints from her upper fields down to the barn. But their vocalizations are shriller, and I think we’d have seen paw prints of that size.
So– It came back last night and I got a video (it’s pitch black, but the sounds are there, if I could figure out how to post it) and also took some photos of paw prints. Also, it came back last night for a fucking hour. It spent the entire 3:00 hour, and then some, wandering around the area and growling and barking. It was fucking obnoxious.
In the midst of it, the coyotes started up, way up the hill, and that was eerie as fuck and it shut up for the duration, but it started again afterward. And it was definitely right around the ger. And it had to have known we were awake, we sat up and discussed it and also ignored it and did other stuff, it’s kind of nice to have company at night, but I’ve digressed. Anyway.
It definitely went down into the barnyard and across the creek and all around.
Our most likely suspect is that it’s a red fox; they have a range of vocalizations, and also something larger would probably have made more sounds of breathing and footfalls and the like. It was pretty silent. The pawprints are almost cat-sized, but with long non-retractable claws, which points to a canid rather than a feline.
answered your question “OK. 4am. Asleep in the ger. It’s 4am. It’s cold (got down to 51F last…”
if I’d heard that here in France, I’d reckon it was a deer (which bark), or a wild boar (which also bark, and if they’re anything like our pigs, kind of grumble/growl when hungry - and would also be attracted by blood)
winterling42 answered: could it be a cougar? I know those are mostly a west-coast thing…
So, I’ve heard deer barking before, and this wasn’t it. I’ve also never heard of deer growling. Also, there are pigs on this farm, and I’m pretty familiar with the noises they make, and this wasn’t that.
Cougars are largely unknown in this area since the 19th century, though it’s not impossible. They have such a range of vocalizations, though.
There *is* a bobcat den, confirmed, about a mile to the east. It could be one of those; they’ve been sighted on this property. My sister tracked one by pawprints from her upper fields down to the barn. But their vocalizations are shriller, and I think we’d have seen paw prints of that size.
So– It came back last night and I got a video (it’s pitch black, but the sounds are there, if I could figure out how to post it) and also took some photos of paw prints. Also, it came back last night for a fucking hour. It spent the entire 3:00 hour, and then some, wandering around the area and growling and barking. It was fucking obnoxious.
In the midst of it, the coyotes started up, way up the hill, and that was eerie as fuck and it shut up for the duration, but it started again afterward. And it was definitely right around the ger. And it had to have known we were awake, we sat up and discussed it and also ignored it and did other stuff, it’s kind of nice to have company at night, but I’ve digressed. Anyway.
It definitely went down into the barnyard and across the creek and all around.
Our most likely suspect is that it’s a red fox; they have a range of vocalizations, and also something larger would probably have made more sounds of breathing and footfalls and the like. It was pretty silent. The pawprints are almost cat-sized, but with long non-retractable claws, which points to a canid rather than a feline.
