chickenlisa
woke up at 5 am by a haunting screaming noise outsideWe woke up to a high pitched high adrenaline hairball sort of noise only outside, with scuffling and screaming included. None of my chickens or ducks were sounding alarm sounds though and when we shied a bright flashlight out to see what was making the noise, we saw eyeballs staring at us from the next property over (an uninhabited, dilapidated barn property.) From looking up different sounds online, and talking to other folks around here, its either a Male Red Fox or a Fisher Cat. We've seen foxes around in the past, so I'm hoping its the same. But I was told that Fisher cats have been seen in the next township over from us (and that's just a quick trip over some RR tracks or through the woods....) I DO NOT want to ever see one of those here...my backyard would be screaming dinner to them w/ all of the chickens, ducks and my 2 new barncats.
Has anyone ever had a run in with them?
Lisa
where are you from
I heard the same type of sound also a fews weeks ago ,it seems that they was a family of Foxes living next door .....Mom and 5 pups , when to go see what it was and seen there eyes well mom ran off leaving her pups behind figuring I would chase her but I didn't I sat on the deck wacthing the pups play around for the longest time and listing to them as they had a high pitch noise something like a cat screeming .....
this past winter I here something like that also only to again see that it was 2 possums fighting in my back yard .
so it could be one or the other
but I'm in mass. and have all kinds of wild life living here and I'm about 500 ft off the road and they are woods all around me , the back half of the property is all woods also with no houses about 20 acres of woodland
Alan
woke up at 5 am by a haunting screaming noise outsideWe woke up to a high pitched high adrenaline hairball sort of noise only outside, with scuffling and screaming included. None of my chickens or ducks were sounding alarm sounds though and when we shied a bright flashlight out to see what was making the noise, we saw eyeballs staring at us from the next property over (an uninhabited, dilapidated barn property.) From looking up different sounds online, and talking to other folks around here, its either a Male Red Fox or a Fisher Cat. We've seen foxes around in the past, so I'm hoping its the same. But I was told that Fisher cats have been seen in the next township over from us (and that's just a quick trip over some RR tracks or through the woods....) I DO NOT want to ever see one of those here...my backyard would be screaming dinner to them w/ all of the chickens, ducks and my 2 new barncats.
Has anyone ever had a run in with them?
Lisa
where are you from
I heard the same type of sound also a fews weeks ago ,it seems that they was a family of Foxes living next door .....Mom and 5 pups , when to go see what it was and seen there eyes well mom ran off leaving her pups behind figuring I would chase her but I didn't I sat on the deck wacthing the pups play around for the longest time and listing to them as they had a high pitch noise something like a cat screeming .....
this past winter I here something like that also only to again see that it was 2 possums fighting in my back yard .
so it could be one or the other
but I'm in mass. and have all kinds of wild life living here and I'm about 500 ft off the road and they are woods all around me , the back half of the property is all woods also with no houses about 20 acres of woodland
Alan
