what's your favourite animal noise

[Kayleigh]

Originally Posted by Jez

The clopping of Horses hoofs over Stony ground ,esp when in canter like on the Spaghetti Westerns

OUCH!! that's the quickest way to lame them

[Kayleigh]

In summer I sit next to the lavender that is full of bumble bees buzzing away... So relaxing

[Jez]

Originally Posted by Kayleigh

OUCH!! that's the quickest way to lame them

I don't ride so didn't know but can't help love the sound when watching the box! Another favourite is the Bees buzzing around the garden it's a huge drone when they sup from the nectar in the Crab Apple tree

[tufftie]

Too much fast work on hard ground causes the navicular bone (in horses hooves) to swell up..usual remedy is to put them on painkillers for rest of their time. Though it is a good sound

another sound i almost forgot is cat purrs..thoughts of my old fat cat's purr lulling me to sleep spring to mind and more recently the silly purr of a certain black and white cat i've gone all soft on There's something very comforting and reassuring about a cat's purr.

[NuttyMeg]

Originally Posted by ChrisJB

A bit of a cop out this, but the dawn chorus or the curlew on the moors.

Regards, Chris

Someone always beats me to my post

Have love the sound of the curlew ever since I was a little nipper, makes me feel right at home.

[Stefan]

My favourite is a bird of paradise - not a British bird I tihnk it is called a "Lyre Bird"

Here is a video of it:
YouTube - Attenborough - Lyre Bird

[NuttyMeg]

Originally Posted by Stefan

My favourite is a bird of paradise - not a British bird I tihnk it is called a "Lyre Bird"

Here is a video of it:
YouTube - Attenborough - Lyre Bird

Also one of my favourites, I have watched that vid so many times, it's a Superb Lyre Bird, and they really are!

[deer boy]

Originally Posted by Stefan

My favourite is a bird of paradise - not a British bird I tihnk it is called a "Lyre Bird"

Here is a video of it:
YouTube - Attenborough - Lyre Bird

Hi Stefan & Nuttymeg a mate of mine told me about this bird & i thought he was having a laugh when he said it could copy the noise of cameras & chainsaws.But when i saw it on tv i couldn't believe it, truly amazing

[Pigeon feather]

Love the Lyre bird such a master mimic! One of my favourite sounds is when swifts scream, it just reminds me of being on holiday in a nice hot place

[Ukwildlifeo]

Originally Posted by Stefan

My favourite is a bird of paradise - not a British bird I tihnk it is called a "Lyre Bird"

Here is a video of it:
YouTube - Attenborough - Lyre Bird

Its so odd my brain interprets it as being dubbed! Good job Attenbourough was presenting or I would have trouble believing it!

[wildmanofthewoods]

YouTube - Attenborough - Lyre Bird

What a great thread, i've read through them all and they're giving me goose bumps
I too love the Lyre Bird if you've never seen/heard it please click the link above it is one of the most amazing shows nature has to offer.

As for my favourite and there are so many, i love listening to a Blackbird singing to his potential mate, it is truly mesmeriSING, bird song heaven

[Dutchess]

I love the munching sound horses make when grazing.... The whole experience is wonderful, the nearness of a contented animal, the warmth, the smell, (of the animal *and* the masticated grass! ) And the way they gently shuffle along to the next delectable patch...

[NuttyMeg]

Originally Posted by Dutchess

I love the munching sound horses make when grazing.... The whole experience is wonderful, the nearness of a contented animal, the warmth, the smell, (of the animal *and* the masticated grass! ) And the way they gently shuffle along to the next delectable patch...

Does it have to be horses? or do cows have the same effect too?

[hsl]

Goats make me smile when ever they decide to speak

[Tam]

I was listening to snipes 'Drumming/bleating' the other night when me and a mate where up listning for owls very eery sound,

[Meta menardi]

Curlew, Oystercatcher, Snipe and that old Cuckoo.

[Wildwoodsman]

Great thread.

I think my favourite must be the scream of swifts - my own harbingers of summer!

Probably like many here I find particular sounds evoke memories of a particular season. Woodlarks rising in song, or the sound of a cuckoo moving across the floodmeadows herald spring for me. Nightjars churring on the heath, the lazy coos of woodpigeon, and - of course - screaming swifts are my summer soundtrack. Whistling sika and belching fallow buck are my autumn favourites; and winter isn't complete without the sounds of migrating redwing at night, and chukking fieldfares in the fields around here.

WWM

[andyc123]

Tricky one to choose between. I like the screeech of a barn owl, partly because we dont really have any around here but had some where I used to live (Berwick) was always great to hear them calling when out at night. On a similar note I rather like the tawny owl that calls through the night - seemingly outside our window. In the end though I went for my personal favourite as being the 'common' blackbird. If we get the chance (having a 22 month old) my wife and I like to sit out and watch the light fade out of the day - accompanied of course by the signing blackbirds, who also feel the need to wake us up in a morning! lol

[bounce]

Another toughy with to much to list, Dawn chorus is a biggie as with robins and blackbirds as light fades. Rutting stags, the call/grunt and clash, spine tingling.
I think I'd have to go with wolves howling although I've only heard it tv and the like.

[Dutchess]

Originally Posted by NuttyMeg

Does it have to be horses? or do cows have the same effect too?

lol, no, they don't. In fact, cows unerve me, being such curious creatures

[PMG]

Tough one ......... as particular sounds go with certain places .......... but top of my list would be swifts screaming and mating over the rooftops ........ a pity we only get to hear this for three or four months a year. It lifts me up unbelievably and I get sooo sad when they leave again.............

Second would be greenshank........tu tu tu

Snipe and curlew.........

Pauline

[bounce]

Originally Posted by PMG

Tough one ......... as particular sounds go with certain places .......... but top of my list would be swifts screaming and mating over the rooftops ........
Pauline

Screaming swifts remind me of Rome.

[PMG]

Originally Posted by bounce

Screaming swifts remind me of Rome.

I've never been outside of England and I wouldn't mind taking a look at Rome (and Florence some day) but 'my swifts' are making heaven when they are screaming over the rooftops of Milnthorpe, on a beautiful May evening, when I would be eating fish and chips in the square before heading back to our caravan for a nights 'mothing' ..............

Pauline

[Rob T]

Well for me it would be a Fallow Doe's alarm bark echoing through a still wood, even though it means you probably wont be seeing much for an hour or two.
Regards
Rob

[PMG]

Originally Posted by Rob T

Well for me it would be a Fallow Doe's alarm bark echoing through a still wood, even though it means you probably wont be seeing much for an hour or two.
Regards
Rob

I always think back to one of our first nights badgerwatching ..... we had chosen our sett with care and put peanuts and sultanas out to hold the Badgers up for a short spell before they went off foraging for worms in the fields. In the dead of night, with no wind - you could hear for miles literally - and there we were on a folding chair apeice waiting patiently when something was heard walking up to the back of us .......... we didn't want to shine the torch at 'it' (didn't want to see the glint of steel from the mad axeman....) then suddenly a deer coughed, then full out barked in our right ears - us two folk left our chairs skywards for 6ft fully I'm sure........ needless to say we didn't see the Badgers after that and had to pack up our chairs and creep off home ........ deers one - badgerwatching folk nil (and damp pants!!!)

Pauline