{"id":41829,"date":"2026-06-08T13:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T17:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=41829"},"modified":"2026-06-08T13:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T17:57:07","slug":"off-estate-find-63","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2026\/06\/off-estate-find-63\/","title":{"rendered":"(Off) Estate Find 63"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poking around at night by the headlamp again, endeavoring not to get eaten by a <a href=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2026\/05\/estate-find-53a\/\" target=\"_blank\">bear<\/a>, I realized there was a faint sound that kept repeating, and I didn&#8217;t recognize it as anything &#8216;typical&#8217; &#8211; the frogs were making a racket down at the pond, but this wasn&#8217;t a frog. So I started following it. This took me off of the property, so <em>technically<\/em> this isn&#8217;t an Estate Find, but I was there initially, so I&#8217;m counting it.<\/p>\n<p>I located the noisemaker roughly a hundred meters from where I&#8217;d first heard it, and you&#8217;ll hear the audio in the video clip, so you should get the idea that this was initially right at the edge of hearing &#8211; I consider myself lucky that I <em>can<\/em> still hear things like this at my age, especially since I know that The Girlfriend cannot. I also had to pass directly under a streetlamp as I came closer, to say nothing of the headlamp light itself, so I was also lucky in that the noisemaker stayed put, but that was probably a factor of its age.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1199497901?badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" title=\"(Very faint) noises in the night\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This is a good example of not just using one&#8217;s ears, but in realizing what particular sounds might mean, or at the very least, don&#8217;t belong among the &#8216;normal&#8217; lineup of things you&#8217;re likely to hear. I suspected a bird, but I was honestly thinking more in lines of a nightjar (which I also would have been delighted to get, but likely would not have stuck around as long as this one did.)<\/p>\n<p>Now, after the batteries died, I simply turned and walked back to Walkabout Estates, and hadn&#8217;t gotten very far when the calls of both mother and child get a lot closer together, more &#8216;talkative,&#8217; so I turned back and could just barely see (the headlamp is dimmer than the flashlight I use for night video) that mother and child were now on the same branch right next to each other, with absolutely nothing I could do about it. <em>Grumble mutter blaspheme<\/em> and all that. As I said in the video, I&#8217;ll go into that in the post following.<\/p>\n<p>Still, while <a href=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2025\/04\/podcast-guest-speakers\/\" target=\"_blank\">hearing barred owls<\/a> all the time around here, this is only the third or fourth time actually catching sight of one, and the first in capturing it on video, so I can&#8217;t complain too much. Well, not <em>justifiably<\/em>, anyway&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poking around at night by the headlamp again, endeavoring not to get eaten by a bear, I realized there was a faint sound that kept repeating, and I didn&#8217;t recognize it as anything &#8216;typical&#8217; &#8211; the frogs were making a racket down at the pond, but this wasn&#8217;t a frog. So I started following it. 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