Can someone please help me ID what's making this noise?

[ChickenChick46]

Could have been a fox.

Well that one is terrifying, lol. Between foxes, bobcats, coyotes, and the barn owl, nighttime sounds where I live can be rough.

 

[coach723]

Here is another, with shorter calls. We hear them a lot, particularly in spring when the females are looking for a mate. Not a sound I like to hear. Outside, in the dark, can really make your hair stand up. Only thing that scared me worse, was a puma/mountain lion. THAT was spine tingling.

 

[ChickenChick46]

Here is another, with shorter calls. We hear them a lot, particularly in spring when the females are looking for a mate. Not a sound I like to hear. Outside, in the dark, can really make your hair stand up. Only thing that scared me worse, was a puma/mountain lion. THAT was spine tingling.

To me, this sounds very similar to the OP's recording.

Never heard a mountain lion as supposedly they aren't in my state. Coyotes and bobcats are the 2 I hate hearing when I take my puppy out at night.

 

[Jener8or]

Sounds like two corvids talking to each other to me.

 

[thecatumbrella]

In your video I hear one loud squawk then a quieter response-type squawk.

Yeah I noticed that as well, like a call and response.

It was just the one loudmouth for a while, but then I did notice a response call towards the end (which you hear in the recording). Went silent after that.

Need a longer recording. Could be a fox but not sure.

Of course by the time I could actually record it (my hands were covered in from cleaning the coop), he decided he was done! Thankful I got the one snippet.

I can't get it to work with just the one call and a lot of background noise in the recording you posted, but the Merlin app is really good for IDs if it is a bird.

I know, can I have anymore fans running in the background? Great idea with the Merlin app. Audio was too muddled, unfortunately.

Here is another, with shorter calls. We hear them a lot, particularly in spring when the females are looking for a mate.

That sounds closer, for sure...

Coyotes and bobcats are the 2 I hate hearing when I take my puppy out at night.

I had to look up the bobcat calls, and oh my. Sounds like something that would be sampled in a horror movie!

 

[ChickenChick46]

It was just the one loudmouth for a while, but then I did notice a response call towards the end (which you hear in the recording). Went silent after that.

Of course by the time I could actually record it (my hands were covered in from cleaning the coop), he decided he was done! Thankful I got the one snippet.

I know, can I have anymore fans running in the background? Great idea with the Merlin app. Audio was too muddled, unfortunately.

That sounds closer, for sure...

I had to look up the bobcat calls, and oh my. Sounds like something that would be sampled in a horror movie!

Yes!! One night really late, not long after we moved in, my husband and I were sitting on our front porch in total darkness. We live on about 3 acres in a 1900 farmhouse, in a rural part of the country with no street lights. To say it is our dream come true is an understatement.

So there we are, having a drink and enjoying the peace, and this sound like a woman getting murdered suddenly pierces the quiet. We jumped a mile! Luckily we knew it was a bobcat, but it somewhere very, very close. It was quite an experience!

 

[thecatumbrella]

Yes!! One night really late, not long after we moved in, my husband and I were sitting on our front porch in total darkness. We live on about 3 acres in a 1900 farmhouse, in a rural part of the country with no street lights. To say it is our dream come true is an understatement.

So there we are, having a drink and enjoying the peace, and this sound like a woman getting murdered suddenly pierces the quiet. We jumped a mile! Luckily we knew it was a bobcat, but it somewhere very, very close. It was quite an experience!

I just saw my first bobcat the other day, so that's not off the table as my mystery screamer!

 

[ChickenChick46]

I just saw my first bobcat the other day, so that's not off the table as my mystery screamer!

Especially if there are young ones around, I would think. It can be so hard sometimes to figure out what you're hearing. We've got predators from bobcats, foxes, coyotes, racoons, possums, hawks, owls to bears. But we've also got armadillo, rabbits, deer, wild turkeys, and any other assortment of wild birds. It's neat, but poses challenges to know who was in the yard and do they pose a threat and how big of one.

Definitely before I put the chickens in their coop, I'm going to invest in a good game camera to mount in the run, and I'm going to make sure it's one that has an app that can alert me of movement. Just in case.