[Magdalen] Fox screams

[Jay Weigel]

I will never forget the first time I woke up and heard a screech
owl....scared me to death, and I had to wake up completely and process it
before I could figure out what it was, and then it took me awhile before I
could get back to sleep. Now it doesn't bother me so much if I hear it,
because I've filed that sound away in my subconscious. Never heard a fox
scream, though I know we have them hereabouts because I've seen them on
occasion. Usually I don't hear a lot at night in the summer unless I'm out
on the porch, because we have fans going (no a/c). The funniest thing I
hear is when deer trip over things in the outback (they aren't always as
graceful as they look!) and snort in obvious disgust. The best is owls
calling to each other in late winter.

On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 12:40 AM, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net> wrote:

> I've never heard a fox scream.  I have spent the night camping in the
> mouth of a cave in the middle of the Ozarks, sharing the cave with not only
> bats but screech owls, and all night long I dreamed of vampires and the
> flitter of their wings, and axe murders.
>
> Thank God I don't have either critter here at home-- the coyotes
> serenading me are quite melodic, and the owls who nest on my back lot are
> the tenor/baritone "who..whooo" type.
>
>
> On 5/27/15 10:30 PM, Grace Cangialosi wrote:
>
>> I was sitting out on the porch earlier and heard a fox scream several
>> times  from the woods. My poor dog nearly went crazy trying to figure out
>> where the sound was coming from. That's the second time I've heard that
>> sound, and it's totally chilling! Screech owl calls affect me the same
>> way...
>>
>>
>
> --
> Sibyl Smirl
> I will take no bull from your house!  Psalms 50:9a
> mailto:polycarpa3 at ckt.net
>