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Old 08-04-2008, 08:03 PM
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what's your favourite animal noise

The reason i ask is because last week i saw 'A summer on golden pond' on bbc2 & heard a Loon it sounded really cool.I could just imagine hearing one on a lake early in the morning just as the fog lifted,how cool would that be.Anyway my favourite animal noise would have to be the Red Deer during the rut that's pretty special especially if you get really close with out them knowing
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Old 08-04-2008, 09:11 PM
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Re: what's your favourite animal noise

Yes for me it as to be the stag in the rut, I got pretty close last september when I showed my husband the video footage I shot he said Id got too close , but I was hiding behind a oak tree I will always keep that video cassette I loved it. sheila
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Old 08-04-2008, 09:15 PM
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Re: what's your favourite animal noise

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

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Old 08-04-2008, 10:22 PM
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Re: what's your favourite animal noise

Skylarks singing on an early summers day, nightjars churring in the evening....

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Old 08-04-2008, 10:25 PM
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Re: what's your favourite animal noise

Fighting dragonflies! Those critters really make a racket when they go for each other; they are like a couple of WW1 fighter planes having a dog fight.
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Old 08-04-2008, 10:43 PM
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Re: what's your favourite animal noise

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Skylarks singing on an early summers day, nightjars churring in the evening....

Jane
Skylarks i can't believe i forgot skylarks,what a wonderful bird & what a wonderful song.I love hearing them upon the moors
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Old 08-04-2008, 11:30 PM
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Re: what's your favourite animal noise

Lapwing - a gorgeous trickling almost-electronic sound.
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Old 08-04-2008, 11:34 PM
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Re: what's your favourite animal noise

I'm going for two - eider duck have a lovely relaxing sound and i love to hear grasshoppers at night.
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Old 08-04-2008, 11:59 PM
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Re: what's your favourite animal noise

Impossible to pick one! Red & Sika are great to hear but I prefer to hear the Fallow in the rut.
Blackbird is my favourite songster, Nightjars in the summer evenings & Goshawk calling, not the best call but it's just knowing this elusive, powerfull hunter is close.
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Old 09-04-2008, 12:56 AM
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Re: what's your favourite animal noise

Magpies, i kraack kraack back to them, to my astonishment whilst doing this, in constant reply to one magpie it then went into a frenzy on high and low pitch chirps and whistles, i thought i had broken a magpie, i was in amazment as i never knew they could do that
untill i looked it up and found out they do that
but its the only time that i've had one "sing" back

i like the calls young lion and tiger cubs make , like a short mauw, but obviously alot gruffer being big cats

also the funny little accidental prrruk a kitty cat makes when its playing and happy

high heels on concrete or in mud, but thats different kind on animal
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Old 09-04-2008, 07:55 AM
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Re: what's your favourite animal noise

I like to hear the sound of grasshoppers stridulating. Summer and warm evenings conjured up.
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Old 09-04-2008, 08:11 AM
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Re: what's your favourite animal noise

I do love the dawn chorus,I wake up smiling instead of angry at the alarm buzzing!But I must admire the Blackbird as he is the usual first & last song of the day - closely folowed by one of our 5 robins!
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Old 09-04-2008, 08:16 AM
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Re: what's your favourite animal noise

Must also say I do love the Starlings we have living in the side of our home - right by the bedroom window!They give a soft low whistle last thing before they sleep!Now & again there is a little twittering during the night - I assume the 'male' is snoring & the 'female'is nagging at him to shut up!They are about to have young I think - so a few restless nights for them!The male also is a dab hand at a Buzzard impression!The times he's caught me out as I race out to shoot it away & look up and it's Mr Starling.......Bless him!
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Old 09-04-2008, 08:47 AM
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Re: what's your favourite animal noise

Has to be either blackbird in Spring, skylark when I'm out on my bike, or even the cackling laugh of a green woodpecker. If we were allowed to go worldwide my choice would be the lowing sounds of thousands of migrating wildebeeste.
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Old 09-04-2008, 08:49 AM
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Re: what's your favourite animal noise

Ooops, nearly forgot the robin throughout winter AND nightingales. Sorry for choosing so many!
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Old 09-04-2008, 09:50 AM
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Re: what's your favourite animal noise

The clopping of Horses hoofs over Stony ground ,esp when in canter like on the Spaghetti Westerns
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Re: what's your favourite animal noise

Am with ChrisJB on this. Curlews on the fells means spring has come and the brown trout in the tarns are worth having a crack at.
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The noise of a kittiwake colony!!
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Marsh Frogs - its such a weird noise
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Old 09-04-2008, 11:27 AM
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Re: what's your favourite animal noise

I like the sound of the Robin,last week-end down at the Queens View at Pitlochry the was a Robin in the tree that let me get within 5 feet of it and was singing away whilst it let me take its pic it would look away and I would give a little whistle and it cocks it head to the side and looks back down the lens as if to say hurry up and take my pic have other things to do ,got about 10 pics before it decided to fly off
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that sluping noise carp make when there feeding on the surface of the water
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Old 09-04-2008, 01:52 PM
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Nightingale without a doubt.....
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Old 09-04-2008, 01:57 PM
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Re: what's your favourite animal noise

I don't have a particular favourite, but always like to hear:

Curlews
The screech of a barn owl
Song thrush - in song and when tapping snails on a stone
Nightingale in full throttle
Stridulating grasshoppers on sunny days
Male toads in spring

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Re: what's your favourite animal noise

My list would be a long one,I will settle for; The thwack of willow on leather and drowsy Bumble Bees on a hot summers day.
The mist just rising off the valley and nothing calling yet except the Cuckoo
Sparrows in a dust bath
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Re: what's your favourite animal noise

Too many to list really, but Cetti's warbler has to be close to the top - there's just something about that extraordinary burst of sound from a bird hidden deep in a reedbed that gives me goosebumps. Curlew, Lapwing and Nightingale are close seconds
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