Strange Noises In The Night
Can anybody help please? We're currently staying on a lovely CL in The Lincolnshire Wolds, on a farm, with fields all around.
Each night, very close to the side of the caravan, in the early hours, we've heard what can only be described as the noise a baby alligator makes. (The throat like hiccups, usually four in a row)
Intrigued, we decided to put our camera trap out over night to see what it is..... (We were thinking badgers or muntjac deers)............with excitement we brought the camera in this morning to find it had taken 16 photographs.........only to find two hares and my OH topping the water barrels up!
Has anybody heard hares make this strange noise or can you advise?
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+1, I've heard & witnessed both Hares & Hedgehogs emitting sounds that seem quite alien to them
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Thank you Brue and Rocky. We also googled "hare sounds" but couldn't find anything like this. It sounds as if it comes from the throat area.
We're going to put the camera out again tonight and if all we get is hares, then it must be them. I must admit, I was hoping to capture something more interesting! Will let you know tomorrow morning, if we haven't been eaten by the beast of Bodmin Moor (who must be holidaying in Lincolnshire!)
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We originally thought it was a fox but the camera has only caught hares so far. We've set the camera back up and it's our last night here so we're hoping for better results tonight.
It's not a frog JohnM20 we too have them at home and we're very familiar with their calls in the back garden from February onwards!
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We've reviewed the camera footage from last night. The only animals caught on camera are rabbits, a hare, a hedgehog and a rather large rat.
It's been interesting to review the activities that go on after dark, right outside the caravan door, without you knowing. We'll definitely take the camera away with us next time which will be another CL with similar surroundings, ie farm land and fields. Thanks for all your replies and suggestions. After speaking to the CL owner, he confirmed that they have an active badger set close to the CL and foxes visit regularly. He suggested it may be the resident little owl that sits on the fence post close to where we were pitched.
So we still cannot identify the noise we heard but we now have lots of nice pictures of rabbits!
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Brue & Trellis, we bought the camera off the internet. It's an Ltl Acorn 6210MC. 12 Mega pixels game and trail camera. Just like the ones you see Simon King using on wildlife documentarys. It's motion activated and records pictures or video. You can set it up to take as 1,2 or 3 pictures every so many seconds or minutes. It's battery operated so easy to set up anywhere with a small viewing screen to replay anything recorded. We replay the pictures on the laptop, as its a bigger screen to identify the images. Day time pictures are in colour and very good. Night time pictures are taken in infrared and are therefore black and white. It's a "no glo" flash so it has no visible light to scare the wildlife off when it's activated. Prices online are around £144.
We bought it for our garden and caught pictures of the hedgehogs and local cat population! But after this week it will be packed to go away in the caravan every time. We only tend to visit rural CLs so we'll keep you posted on the activities after dark.
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