[Magdalen] Fox screams

[Grace Cangialosi]

Hearing a screech owl, of course, is supposed to mean someone has died. And, I kid you not, the first time I ever heard one was a few hours after I learned my mother had died...didn't know what it was until later!  That sound always gives me shivers. If you google Red Fox, you can find pictures and a variety of sounds, including the scream. For awhile I thought I was hearing a bobcat, but then I put a little sound clip on FB, and one of my naturalist friends suggested it was probably a fox. And sure enough!  Seeing the actual video of the fox screaming is really scary...

> On May 28, 2015, at 10:40 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
>>