Wailing night time sound uk (1 Viewer)

[jackied]

I've been hearing an odd sound outside at night lately, it sounds mammalian rather than bird. Its rather like Hump back Whale song, but much quiter.
It sounds like its coming from either the hedge or the field next door. Any ideas what it could be
Jackie

 

[Simon Wates]

maybe Rabbit - cue John

 

[Penny Clarke]

Muntjac deer possibly.

 

[dantheman]

Do your next door neighbours have windchimes and burn those hippy incense sticks sometimes? If yes - they might also be playing whale song cds?!

 

[Sancho]

Or amorous cats? When I was a teenager some friends and I once heard wailing coming from a hedge at night. We thought it was an abandoned baby, so we went to a phone box (younger BF-ers, in those days we didn´t carry phones in our pockets), and called the police. They came and listened, and then gave us some instruction in the area of feline birds n´bees behaviour.

 

[Farnboro John]

Rabbits squeal when about to be killed by e.g. Stoat but by definition its one squeal sequence per Rabbit.

I've never heard Muntjacs do other than bark, but happy to defer to others with different experience?

Its the wrong season for foxes, so cats would seem most likely.

You're certain its not night-flying Moorhens, because they make some very weird noises?

I still find when I'm out at night that I fail to recognise quite a lot of sounds. It can be unsettling sometimes, for sure!

John

 

[Sandra (Taylor)]

Hedgehogs make all sorts of strange noises

 

[jackied]

Thanks for all the sudgestions, the closest seems to be cat, but it really doesn't sound like any cat I have ever heard. No pools close by, so probably not a Moorhen.
Jackie

 

[Farnboro John]

Thanks for all the sudgestions, the closest seems to be cat, but it really doesn't sound like any cat I have ever heard. No pools close by, so probably not a Moorhen.
Jackie

Actually there doesn't have to be, they do quite a lot of night-flying and can turn up anywhere.

John