[Magdalen] Fox screams

[Grace Cangialosi]

Oh, I forgot a funny deer story...hard to write without sound effects!  I was in retreat early in the morning, standing on a hill at the edge of a large cornfield. There were always deer there, so I wasn't surprised to see one. But all of a sudden it caught sight of me and froze. I was downwind of it, and it started making these huge snuffling sounds. I realized it was trying to catch my scent. It finally gave up and went back to grazing.

> 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
>>