I saw this... and thought of me!

[useless]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/6168641.stm

So, does this make ear defenders a sensible bush craft item for beginners?

 

[gregorach]

First-timers then I guess... There's always a scary noise when you're in your tent. Worst I can recall was seals - they make oddly human-sounding noises at night, and they sound a lot closer than they really are!

 

[Grooveski]

I had a sika deer prowling round my camp squealing every night during my summer hols. It had a bed among the gorse about 5m away, wasn't best chuffed about me being there and was being very vocal about it.

One night there was a thunderstorm pass closeby. Every flash of lightning it screamed out, setting off another couple further up the valley. Could have done with earplugs that night .

 

[Ogri the trog]

Worst I can recall was seals -

Can't say I've camped near seals, but sheep cough through the night just like a forty-a-day smoker - makes you jump first time its heard.

ATB

Ogri the trog

PS we just have to find out what they actually heard

 

[Spikey DaPikey]

I always have ear plugs Too many times camping on rallys near snoring people !!

 

[andyn]

PS we just have to find out what they actually heard

£1 on a "a twig snapped!"

 

[WhichDoctor]

We had a scary moment on the family camping holiday last year, We woke up in the middle of the night with a horrible wet snuffling grunting sound coming from inside the tent . It turned out to be a hedgehog eating our chocolate stash . It always sounds a lot bigger when you cant see it .

Also the ducks up at lake Bala in Mid Wales has a truly disturbing manic laughter like quack. A bit unnerving .

 

[Spikey DaPikey]

Also the ducks up at lake Bala in Mid Wales has a truly disturbing manic laughter like quack. A bit unnerving .

Sounds like my kinda Duck !!

 

[bambodoggy]

£1 on a "a twig snapped!"

£3 says it was a fox screaming! lol

 

[Squidders]

£5 says it was the wayfairer baked beans and sausages repeating

 

[John Fenna]

Rutting Red deer? Scary noise first time heard!

 

[Wayland]

Sheep trying to eat your guy ropes can be a surprise too.

Tug, Tug, Twang.......

 

[Voivode]

We had a scary moment on the family camping holiday last year, We woke up in the middle of the night with a horrible wet snuffling grunting sound coming from inside the tent . It turned out to be a hedgehog eating our chocolate stash . It always sounds a lot bigger when you cant see it .

Storing food in your tent! That is one of those things I don't think I could ever do. We are so conditioned to bears that we don't even sleep where we cook, and make an effort to clear all food out of our pockets and into bearproof containers or bags hung from trees before retiring.

And when you know bears are a possibility, every little twig and snuff you hear is probably the biggest one in existence coming to nibble on your toes!

 

[Shambling Shaman]

Also the ducks up at lake Bala in Mid Wales has a truly disturbing manic laughter like quack. A bit unnerving .

Yep Iv heard the manic duck laugh.

But cats that sound like a baby crying..first time you have to go look just in case.

 

[Spikey DaPikey]

Wonder if it was a screech owl, now THATS scary

 

[WhichDoctor]

Storing food in your tent! That is one of those things I don't think I could ever do. We are so conditioned to bears that we don't even sleep where we cook, and make an effort to clear all food out of our pockets and into bearproof containers or bags hung from trees before retiring.

I hope there aren't any bears in Wales yet . we did learn are lesson though after that and locked everything away in air tight tubs and put them up on the shelves (yes are tent is big enough to have shelves in , I know its not bushcraft but it is good when its raining )

Wonder if it was a screech owl, now THATS scary

Hearing a screech owl in a tent is bad enough but imagine waking up in your bedroom with a screech owl letting rip on the end of your bed :yikes: . Thats what happened to one of my aunts when she went to stay in my granddads family home in rural wales for the first time, she left the window open for a breath of air only to wake up with a huge dark shape on the end of her bed screaming like a banshee. She'd lived in london all her life, it scared her out of her wits.

 

[jon r]

have you heard the muntjac barking! man they sound scary!

I think its the muntjac, could it be foxes..?

 

[Voivode]

I hope there aren't any bears in Wales yet . we did learn are lesson though after that and locked everything away in air tight tubs and put them up on the shelves (yes are tent is big enough to have shelves in , I know its not bushcraft but it is good when its raining )

My parents horse pack into the mountains and take large canvas wall tents, wood burning stoves and all the comforts of pioneer life.

 

[Ketchup]

Scary sounds? Very hard to beat when you never heard the noice before: the howler monkeys of the Guyana's

We were standing, a colleague biologist and me on top of Brownsberg at nightfall, overlooking the Brokopondo (Blommenstein) lake in Suriname when we heard a noise that made our blood freeze instantly. It was the kind of roar you only hear in 3rd rate SF movies. Low;long and awfully loud. I asked my colleague "what was THAT?" he shudderingly replied "I don't have a clue".

It went on in long breaths for minutes and our brains were racing... what kind of animal ever could produce such outworldly noise? Until one of the locals swore: "Den ka keskesi!" (translation: those sh*t monkeys!).

We sighed with relief. 't was not one animal but a choir of howler monkeys, maybe twenty or thirty strong, singing hymns in the last sunrays. I often dream of going back there. The ultimate sound of the jungle... (followed by the "six o' clock cricket" and the bell bird)