Night Noise

I hesitated even writing this post simply because I don't want to give the wrong impression of camp life. In our case, we get to experience some wonderful night time sounds without the obnoxious "wake you in the middle of the night" intensity. Of course there are the usual crickets, the occasional whippoorwill and the rustling of leaves caused by who knows what.  All of that normal camp life fare is to be expected and very normal. However there are a few of the "Night Noises" that will bring a quiet smile to my face in the darkness of the camper when I hear them out the window net to the bed.

The first is the interesting assortment of owls that inhabit the woods around camp. While I've tried. I've not been able to record any of them successfully. The only thing I've been successful with while trying to capture owl noise, is to work myself up to being completely awake. I've had to resort to youtube videos to give you the sense of what the different owls are like. The Barred Owl is the most common around here. Occasionally I'll here a Great Horned Owl in the distance. Their call is usually a lot softer than it is in the video.

The second night noise that brings on a smile is that of the local coyotes. They never venture too close to camp and I assume when I hear them they are probably a half mile away. Never too close to wake me up, but wen I'm at that half asleep, half awake stage, it's a sound that will put me the rest of the way asleep.

Finally, and this one is going to sound totally weird, is the train that passes a couple miles from camp. I've figured out that it does not run every night, and almost never during the day. It starts with a very faint almost inaudible hum of diesel engines. It's so faint tat it can barely be distinguished from the other night noises. It's a little more noticeable when the train is travelling up the valley and less when rolling down the valley. Soon, it will let out the brief warning at the single crossing close enough to be heard from the camper. I have yet to get through that moment without breaking out into an unseen grin in the darkness.

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