Favorite Sound to Hear in the Wild?
For me, it is the call of the Loon.
Have done quite a few (11?) Multi-day (one 14 days) Ocean Kayak/camping trips up and down the Maine Coast. The 14 day one, was Island to Island Off Shore on the Maine Island Trail. (I was the Navigator.)
That always was the one that did it for me.
You?
I used to be a Big Backcountry Outdoor Junkie. Managed a large Outdoor Adventure Equipment Store for apprx 26 years. We averaged about 50+ overnighters per year. Quite a few of them in the worst weather imaginable. (All over the Country.)
Have done quite a few (11?) Multi-day (one 14 days) Ocean Kayak/camping trips up and down the Maine Coast. The 14 day one, was Island to Island Off Shore on the Maine Island Trail. (I was the Navigator.)
That always was the one that did it for me.
You?
I used to be a Big Backcountry Outdoor Junkie. Managed a large Outdoor Adventure Equipment Store for apprx 26 years. We averaged about 50+ overnighters per year. Quite a few of them in the worst weather imaginable. (All over the Country.)
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Wind gently blowing through the pines. 0 -
Cornflk1 wrote:Wind gently blowing through the pines.
An early Outdoor memory of camping in the Scouts, was a place called Whispering Pines.
Was in the Y- Indian Guides before that, out West. NM/TX/AZ/CO. Etc.
Got started early on.0 -
The whistle of a bobwhite in the day, howl of a coyote at night 0 -
Laying in bed in the summer time with the windows open. Then a coyote finds some food and starts calling to his tribe, and one by one they start answering as #1 guides them to the food. 
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The silence on the Ambush line as you are about clack off the claymore on some gomer and get the party started 0 -
+1 for the loons. It used to be a yearly ritual to do a fly in fishing trip in northern Ontario. 8 hour trip by car to the float plane base, load up one of the the Dehaviland Beavers, fly to a private lake and unwind for a week. No phone, no T.V., just nature. Biggest thing we had to worry about was will the beer last all week. Bob 0 -
KenK/84Bravo wrote:For me, it is the call of the Loon.
That always was the one that did it for me.
Went from the Texas Plains to the Boundary Waters as a Boy Scout in '66. 10 days in canoes in the untouched lakes and mountains.
Loved watching and listening to the loons. Still think of that as the sound of wilderness.
Grew up on the edge of civilization next to the 6666 Ranch and the Texas/Oklahoma oil field. At night I could hear the old "hit or miss" engines on some of the wells.
Lost too many calves to coyotes to like their songs.0 -
The Largemouth bass splashing on top of the water at daybreak 0 -
I like hearing top level predators and their calls - the yip of a fox, the hoot of an owl, the scream of a hawk
With the higher level predators around you know you are in a fairly balanced ecosystem.0 -
I am a Southern boy, born and bred.
Summer, the call of a Bob White, looking for a girlfriend.
At night, the call of a Whippoorwill. Coyotes here have done major damage to the population of quail and wild turkey- and almost exterminated the whippoorwills.0 -
Cold, crisp, clear October morning up in the mountains...........The bugle of a bull elk......... 0 -
Grew up, constantly up in the north woods of Minnesota, or Canada.
Love the call of the loon, and the screech/whistle of a Bald Eagle.
Learned long ago, the complete and total anti American piles of shit in Hollywood have no idea what sound a Bald Eagle makes.0 -
Gobble of ole Tom in the spring 0 -
Loons
There are 5 species of natural Loons.
Not to be confused with the mating cry of the semi-domesticated California Snowflake Loon.0 -
I have a couple intricately carved/painted life sized Loons (actually 1/2 Loons) as they are on the water, and the lower half is submerged. Two of my favorite pieces. My cabin/chalet is very rustically decorated.
Sam06, I will Pray for you Brother. I realize you have "Issues." :shock: :? :roll:
Too funny though, because I can audibly hear the "clack, clack."0 -
The crack of a high powered rifle. 0 -
A bugle of a Bull Elk in the fall.
A loon on a lake on late evening or early morning.
And I've always loved the call of a Mourning Dove in the late afternoon or evening. Such a lovely sound.....0 -
Whip-poor-will 0 -
^^^^This^^^^Horse Plains Drifter wrote:Cold, crisp, clear October morning up in the mountains...........The bugle of a bull elk.........
Right below that on my list is listening to the cow elk talkin'.0 -
Howling of a wolf always gives me goose bumps. 0 -
The sound of Grandpa's dog Rattler howling for me to stop hunting and come out of the deep woods before it got pitch dark in Central Virginia. What a beautiful sound, even if it got dark, I could find my way home by his howling. 0 -
Don't know as I have a favorite, but Great Horned Owls, Pileated Woodpeckers, and Loons are right there at the top, and the mix of crickets, bull frogs, and gators is hard to beat. 0 -
At night the Whip--poor will --and the owl. Morning the light winds rustling the trees- about noon when I ask the wife " is this far enough out off the trail for you", YES, is the best sound -😜 0 -
To hear Ned Beatty squeal like a pig.0 -
allen griggs wrote:
To hear Ned Beatty squeal like a pig.
I have a big 4X8' plywood sign leading in to my property - "Trespasuers, will be hogg tyed, and tod dey have a Purty Mouth."
It seems to have worked. I don't get any visitors.0 -
Pileated Woodpecker 0 -
"I'm sooooooo drunk!"
(mating call of the blonde)0 -
buschmaster wrote:"I'm sooooooo drunk!"
(mating call of the blonde)
Whatever works for you Brother.0 -
The slap of a beaver tail on the water in the dark. very very cool 0 -
mmppres wrote:The slap of a beaver tail on the water in the dark. very very cool
Yes, I will agree, that is very nice.
The bark of a Seal/Seals after dark, is quite nice also.0
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