What made that sound?

[Savage30L]

I heard an animal sound, while hunting this morning, that I couldn't identify. This surprises me since I've spent my life outdoors, and thought I'd heard every kind of animal call that one can hear in this part of the world.

It was just about the time of first shooting light; something was coming through the woods to my left, making a loud call that sounded like, "RRRURRR! RRRURRR? RRRURRR!".....

The only thing I could guess was some coyote sound I'd never heard before, but I've heard a lot of coyotes, and never heard anything like that. As it was making the call, a pack of coyotes about a half-mile away started howling....but so did everything else....great horned owls, turkeys, etc. It got the whole countryside stirred up.

Later I told the property owner about it, and he said he'd heard that sound before, too, but he had no clue what it was either. Does anyone here have any idea what it might have been?

 

[DukeConnor]

Do a you tube video of you making the sound. Post it here.

 

[Fyrstyk]

I have heard raccoons make a noise similar to that.

 

[troy fairweather]

Do a you tube video of you making the sound. Post it here.

Yes some people haven't had there day made yet lol,

 

[NMachine]

Chupacabra!

 

[Savage30L]

I have heard raccoons make a noise similar to that.

It was moving through the woods too fast to be a raccoon.

 

[Shanghai McCoy]

It was moving through the woods too fast to be a raccoon.

Armadillo..?

 

[thunderbyrd]

this was your first encounter with a sasquatch. you need to get some high-end camera gear and start hanging out around there. a really good photo or video footage would be worth a fortune.

 

[nettlle]

Snipe?

 

[Ru4real]

I heard an animal sound, while hunting this morning, that I couldn't identify. This surprises me since I've spent my life outdoors, and thought I'd heard every kind of animal call that one can hear in this part of the world.

It was just about the time of first shooting light; something was coming through the woods to my left, making a loud call that sounded like, "RRRURRR! RRRURRR? RRRURRR!".....

The only thing I could guess was some coyote sound I'd never heard before, but I've heard a lot of coyotes, and never heard anything like that. As it was making the call, a pack of coyotes about a half-mile away started howling....but so did everything else....great horned owls, turkeys, etc. It got the whole countryside stirred up.

Later I told the property owner about it, and he said he'd heard that sound before, too, but he had no clue what it was either. Does anyone here have any idea what it might have been?

It was a black bear that had scented you but wasn’t exactly sure where you were. It was sounding off, which is why everything else started sounding off as well.

I watched 2 black bear cubs moving thru blow downs in the Adirondacks once. Falling over logs. Cute. Then I heard that sound and I realized I was between mom and cubs. Not cute.

 

[InTheSwamp]

Armadillo..?

Probable. They can be fast when scared.

 

[nettlle]

There aren't a lot of armadillo's in Central Kentucky.

 

[Savage30L]

It was a black bear that had scented you but wasn’t exactly sure where you were. It was sounding off, which is why everything else started sounding off as well.

I watched 2 black bear cubs moving thru blow downs in the Adirondacks once. Falling over logs. Cute. Then I heard that sound and I realized I was between mom and cubs. Not cute.

No, the wind was coming from the wrong direction for that to be the case.

 

[jmorris]

making a loud call that sounded like, "RRRURRR! RRRURRR? RRRURRR!".....

It got the whole countryside stirred up.

If that second RRRURRR had an exclamation mark instead of a question mark, I would have said a big block Chevy made the sound.

When bulls are looking for a fight they make sounds many probably haven’t heard. Did it sound like the first 8 seconds of this video?

Angry Bull Sound

A bull is an intact adult male of the species cattle. More muscular and aggressive than the female of the species, the bull has long been an important symbol...

www.youtube.com

 

[usaral63]

Only sound I've ever heard an armadillo make is two thumps when you run 'em over............first when you hit and second when he jumps up into your undercarriage.

 

[InTheSwamp]

There aren't a lot of armadillo's in Central Kentucky.

That would be a good reason for the OP's unfamiliarity with it.

The Armadillo Invasion

 

[Savage30L]

It was moving wayyyy too fast through the woods to be an armadillo. By the way, I've spent a lot of time outdoors in Texas, so I'm familiar with armadillos. It wasn't an armadillo. Or a bull.

 

[nettlle]

Have you ever seen an armadillo in Central Kentucky?

 

[Savage30L]

Have you ever seen an armadillo in Central Kentucky?

No. We don't have them. The winters are too hard for them here.

ETA: I've heard reports of them moving into far Western KY, though, down in the Jackson Purchase region.

 

[nettlle]

Just curious. I have a lot of family in Kentucky and never heard of them there.

 

[troy fairweather]

Well they just found a 3'-4' gator in New Jersey so you never know, I've Hurd of them as far up as Kansas.

 

[nettlle]

I have heard sounds from animals in the woods around home (twice) I couldn't and still cannot identify. It does happen.

 

[entropy]

Gitchee Manitou.

 

[Shanghai McCoy]

Well they just found a 3'-4' gator in New Jersey so you never know, I've Hurd of them as far up as Kansas.

Yep, there was a dead one in the center of Mass street down by South Park in Lawrence a week ago.

 

[troy fairweather]

Yep, there was a dead one in the center of Mass street down by South Park in Lawrence a week ago.

this one was alive, think around Middlesex.