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Sound of Car Door Slamming JimL 08-07-2006
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Posted by Keith Williams on August 9, 2006, 11:36 am
bogus_addr@notreal.org says...
>
> > A really talented mockingbird?
> > We have one in our neighborhood that does a terrific cordless phone
> > ring, and a pretty decent car alarm.
>
> Or a Grackle? damned things can mimic sound of tree falling.
> Will get your attention. They typically roost at night, however.

A Grackle? I've never heard one mimic anything, other than perhaps
a Siamese cat in heat. Mocking birds, sure. I once thought the
neighbor's parrot got out, so went looking for it; a Mocking bird
was singing to the parrot from a tree in our front yard. We had
another that was mocking the beeps from my PC. ...stupid thing.

--
Keith

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Posted by JimL on August 11, 2006, 2:59 pm
wrote:

>bogus_addr@notreal.org says...
>>
>> > A really talented mockingbird?
>> > We have one in our neighborhood that does a terrific cordless phone
>> > ring, and a pretty decent car alarm.
>>
>> Or a Grackle? damned things can mimic sound of tree falling.
>> Will get your attention. They typically roost at night, however.
>
>A Grackle? I've never heard one mimic anything, other than perhaps
>a Siamese cat in heat. Mocking birds, sure. I once thought the
>neighbor's parrot got out, so went looking for it; a Mocking bird
>was singing to the parrot from a tree in our front yard. We had
>another that was mocking the beeps from my PC. ...stupid thing.

The mocking birds here are getting hit hard by the west nile virus.
Lot's of them belly up over the last couple of years.

I've had a mocking bird that could whistle for my dog. Drove her
crazy.
Also have heard them mock a crow.






Posted by Mikey on August 8, 2006, 11:52 am


JimL wrote:

> We recently moved the country to an old homestead.
>
> Normally we like the quiet, but we are really starting to get freaked
> out by the sounds of a car door slamming.
>
> Every time it happens, we go the front of the house and look out in
> our driveway which is a quarter mile from the dirt county road and
> there is nothing there. It is half a mile to the nearest neighbor.
>
> We contacted the previous owner said she said it spooked her, too.
>
> This has been happening at least once a day for the last 3 months and
> we are frustrated.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Run screaming naked into the woods.


Posted by Oren on August 8, 2006, 4:13 pm

>
> We recently moved the country to an old homestead.
>
>Normally we like the quiet, but we are really starting to get freaked
>out by the sounds of a car door slamming.
>
> Every time it happens, we go the front of the house and look out in
>our driveway which is a quarter mile from the dirt county road and
>there is nothing there. It is half a mile to the nearest neighbor.
>
> We contacted the previous owner said she said it spooked her, too.
>
> This has been happening at least once a day for the last 3 months and
>we are frustrated.
>
> Any ideas?

(Hope the voices in my head don't bother you)

Do you have wild hogs or an exotic animal farm in the area?

Had you said it sounded like a "crying baby", I would say a panther.

Oren

Posted by Grandpa on August 8, 2006, 6:11 pm
JimL wrote:

> We recently moved the country to an old homestead.
>
> Normally we like the quiet, but we are really starting to get freaked
> out by the sounds of a car door slamming.
>
> Every time it happens, we go the front of the house and look out in
> our driveway which is a quarter mile from the dirt county road and
> there is nothing there. It is half a mile to the nearest neighbor.
>
> We contacted the previous owner said she said it spooked her, too.
>
> This has been happening at least once a day for the last 3 months and
> we are frustrated.
>
> Any ideas?

Got any livestock nearby? Could be something like one of these:
<http://www.gemplers.com/a/shop/product.asp?T1=G80620&UID=200608081710273904849556>
They can lift up the door to chow down and when they withdraw, that door
slams down sounding just like a car door.
--
Grandpa

What is that dripping from my fingers?
Why it looks like time.

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