Sun 28 Feb 2010
I heard the sound again and this time we ran out to record it. It was further away and it sounded a little different from last time – less catlike – but though the “words” are different, the voice seems the same (to the one in my memory). In any case, if you can tell us what it is, if not a fisher cat, let us know!
March 1st, 2010 at 1:02 am
I don’t know if it’s the recording or not, but it sounds like a bird to me, like a hawk. You have a _real_ permaculture Zone 5 in your backyard. I’m amazed so much wildlife manages to coexist in eastern Massachusetts.
March 1st, 2010 at 9:37 am
Ed, that’s probably the recording. It doesn’t convey the distance it came from. Coming from so far away, it was too loud for it to be a bird. Unless we’re talking a Jurassic one.
March 13th, 2010 at 8:47 am
[...] are thinking of placing a mike on top of our roof, and whenever we hear something – the fisher cat, or the owls – we plug it into a laptop and record it. Yet another scheme here on our [...]