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I'm wondering if anyone can identify a sound like this (it's driving my dogs crazy). Some creature is out back in a mixed swampy/wooded area - I cannot figure out what it is - it sound like a stick hitting a tree. WHAP WHAP WHAP WHAP. Or alternately KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK. It stops for about a minute, then starts up again. It's been going on for a couple of nights. It being nightime, I'm not too thrilled about going back into the swamp and investigating. I don't think it's a beaver (no big ponds or running water, just swampy muck). I know it's not a woodpecker. We're close to Whiteface though at a relativley low elevation (around 1000 feet). Every once in a while I hear it moving and it doesn't sound too big.
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About 3 miles - MY GOD do you think it's an elf? I'm in VT now so I don't know if Knock Knock is still in the swamp, I will see next week. I should've checked back there before I left. It was very dark, I was very wimpy.Originally posted by FitzComment
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There was some bug in the trees at Lake Colden when we were there 2 weeks ago. It went "chomp, chomp, chomp" all night. Sounded HUGE. There was even an entry in the Leanto log with someone complaning about it keeping them up all night. I slept like a baby.............Hope you have good time in VT.................Comment
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The chomp, chomp is some type of wood weevil... my dad has a few of them in his woodpile...
As for the knocks, dmarten... have you noticed any response knocks... like the animal making the knocks behind your camp knocks... then you hear return knocks farther away, down the ridge, etc?Comment
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Sorry, I've just been scouting out good lumber for my canoe project.
Seriously, my first instict was bucks knocking antlers, but it's too early for that, they're still in early developement and velvet. Other than that the only thing I can think of is that some owl calls sound a bit like a knocking sound?How is it that you are heading west? Well, we face north and then really sudden like turn left.
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Funny when I was on the Little Tupper to Lila trek I heard a noise in the night that sounded like it was on the shoreline that was a knock knock <pause> knock knock knock. I couldn't id it either. It went on for some time (until I drifted back to sleep). I thought a waterbird of some sort but at night?
I could hear the sound moving but no other sounds, so that's why I figured it was in the water.
'I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.' - Henry David ThoreauComment
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Hey there. I hate to bring up Bigfoot again, but that's SUPPOSED to be something Bigfoot does (I'm not kidding). I don't know how someone knows this, since I don't believe anyone has actually seen one whacking a tree. I wonder if that sound isn't some sort of woodpecker. But here's a link to a forum with sounds someone posted. Apparently the sound is supposed to answer back too if you try knocks in return. I don't know....
If the link doesn't work, it's through bfronet.com under forums under post links to audio recordings here. It's the wood knocks link in NJ.Did you ever think that we drive into animals, rather than that they jump in front of our vehicles?Comment
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The BF Knocking & Sighting
Evidently some have claimed to see one whacking a tree...Originally posted by DeanA
Eastern Adirondack Bigfoot Sighting & Tree KnockingComment
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Yeah, I heard about that just within the last few days. I hadn't known that previously...
There's also a pretty creepy sighting on that site of a hunter in a tree stand observing "one" (a supposed Sasquatch) killing a boar. I think it was originally posted on bfro.net. It gave me the willies...
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Originally posted by TidgeDid you ever think that we drive into animals, rather than that they jump in front of our vehicles?Comment
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I think I like the idea of it being an elf better.Comment
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Actually, elves banging trees sound a little more dainty and can usually be identified by the festive jig playing in background.Did you ever think that we drive into animals, rather than that they jump in front of our vehicles?Comment
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I hear what I think is the same sound all the time along the shores of the Great Sacadaga Lake, usually in the wee hours just after daylight. It often wakes me up. Sounds almost like water dripping but amplified many times over. A hollow knocking describes it very well. Seems to come from a large marshy wooded area. I actually think it may be some type of frog even though it doesn't sound "croaky". Would love to know what it really is!Comment
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woodpecker or sapsucker? both make tapping and knocking noises. some species give isolated knocks, rather than drum rolls.He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.Comment
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IMO- It's a "Mudhen" , which is a rather large marsh lovin' bird.Originally posted by GSLgal--"Pete You***?!, Pete You***'s grandson?!...That name is nearly sacred & uttered with awe in THIS house!" : The late Dr. Reed's wife, upon entering her house & being introduced- so to converse with her husband about the old days, a little before he died. The kind of greeting you'll never forget & reinforces your image of the hero you never met. --Comment
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