Strange Noise at night, how can I find out what it is?

[Space Toker]

I just pulled a DVD-R off the cylinder to watch it, and as it rubbed that plastic pole ,it make a shrill shreeky sound. This is very similar to the sound some creature has been making outside all night every night, for the past several days. What is it or how can I find out?

I tried searching everywhere for animal or mammal sounds, and could not find anything, but I am notoriously bad at searches so maybe someone can help me out here. It is a shrill high pitch squeak, similar to a sound a red-tailed hawk makes, but more rodent or almost insect like.

It is way too loud for an insect though! There are more than one and they call to each other. It is something not too large and something in the trees or bushes. I shine the light where I hear the noise, and can't find anything, then when I turn to walk away, the thing starts shreaking again as if to mock me! What the hell is this thing that is driving me crazy? A link to a website where you can play "night sounds" would be much appreciated. thanks!

 

[Space Toker]

anyone?

 

[Cookie monster]

A female fox in season?

Bloody things screach like a banshee

 

[indickahead]

you guys are stoned...lol

 

[foolintherain]

what about an owl

 

[tonto]

dear?

 

[deathtosoapbar]

A 6 foot killer centipede??!

 

[fishheadbob]

screach owl.

 

[Weird]

owl

 

[GHUA]

It is probably giant fungus gnat wanting your brains... Giant zombie fungus gnat colonies...

On the other side of the spectrum, you could set up an advanced camera system trickered by sound, and automatically focuses on where sound comes from... That must be the ONLY way to know... Giant zombie fungus gnats are very shy...

To get back on topic: If you are lucky you can find the sound on pages like this: http://www.junglewalk.com/sound/Mammal-sounds.htm

 

[PistilPete]

You know that Johnny Werzner kid - the kid who delivers papers in the
neighborhood? He's a fine kid. Some of the neighbors say he smokes
crack, but I don't believe it. Anyway, for his 10th birthday, all he
wanted was a burrow owl, just like his old man. "Dad, get me a burrow
owl. I'll never ask for anything else as long as I live". So the guy
breaks down and buys him a burrow owl. Anyway at 10:30 the other night I
go out into my yard and there's the Werzner kid looking up in the tree. I
said, "What are you looking for?" He said, "I'm looking for my burrow
owl." I say, "Jumping Jesus on a pogo stick! Everybody knows that a
burrow owl lives in a hole in the ground! Why the hell do you think they
call it a burrow owl, anyway?!"

 

[Cookie monster]

It could be a leprechaun, lil feckers are always playing tricks on people.

We got so pissed off with them over here we sent a boat load off to America.
If you catch him can you post over the tag we stuck in his ear.

 

[Stoner4Life]

bobcats mating make a horrible racket

 

[BIGGS]

A female fox in season?

Bloody things screach like a banshee

yep this is probably what it is. got foxes at the end of my garden and they are nosey mother fuckers. sounds like some one being murdered, lol.

 

[tokemaster]

foxes and bobcats are some eerie sounding animals at night.

did it sound like any of these http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6NuhlibHsM

 

[Space Toker]

A female fox in season?

Bloody things screach like a banshee

hahaha
YEAH I have those 2. A silver fox visits the compost pile regularly looking for scraps, one year she brought her pups. A coyote also visits there once in a while. They do make a bizarre noise, like a woman being violently attacked (sorry if that disturbs some but that's the only way I can think of to describe the sound). I have gotten used to that and it is "almost" a welcome sound now. I hear that almost every night, usually several times. It's not that.

I have northern flying squirrels driving me crazy with their sounds. It is not that either, unless they stopped making the usual sounds and completely converted over to this new one. Don't think so.

I love the sounds of the great-horned and barred owl I hear at least a few times a week. I tried listening to every nocturnal bird including every owl and none of them sounded like this. The one sound they give for a screech owl on whatbird.com actually sounds pleasant to me, not like a screech at all!

What I have great difficulty finding is online sounds/vocalizations of mammals. We do have deer, at times lots of them. What sound do they make? The few I listened to sounded almost cattle-like and that isn't it at all. I did hear a snarling growl once when putting out food for the birds at night, since I would not have time that morning. That sounded like it could have been a bobcat. And of course the ubiquitous racoon that likes to raid my corn patches, I am familiar with their sounds as well. not that.

This sound is none of the above as best I can tell. and others heard it too so I am not delusional or on crack. I am not ruling out a raging leprechaun, a she-bashsee or 6 foot millipede (like that one)!

 

[MJBadger]

If it`s a shrill high pitched squeak it`s no fox , coz leprechauns only speak da irish you`d never understand the bloody thing anyway , especially if they have been drinking .

Heard an awful screaming racket in the garden years ago one night , turned out to be a pair of hedgehogs mating , brought tears to the eyes .


Stay green .

 

[Space Toker]

I listened to fox sounds on youtube but not that one link that you posted. The very first sound I heard when clicking that link sounded a lot like what I heard, but this goes on off and on all night. And when I go outside they continue the sound or briefly go silent then start again as I start walking off. Would foxes behave like that? We used to have red foxes long ago, maybe they are coming back. Also, I have been hearing the other fox sounds for a few years now but this, if it is a fox sound, started only about a week ago. thanks for the help, I am considering that fox sound as a pretty good possibility but not sure yet. Any further help, like links to other sounds, would be appreciated. thanks!

 

[Kalicokitty]

This is not good, I heard the same exact sound you're describing for 5 nights straight, on the sixth night the Aliens abducted me.
Luckily I work out a lot, and was able to keep my butt cheeks clenched super tight, and after a while they gave up on trying to anally probe me, and just let me go.

 

[Space Toker]

HAHAHA! I'm happy for you, I think!