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More close encounters of the natural kind
I was sitting upstairs at my computer last night -- in my little nook in the loft, above the living room -- and, from the corner of my eye, saw something move out of the big picture window in the living room. I looked down and there was a moose trotting by the window -- like about 5 feet from it! Damn thing was HUGE! It looked as big as a Thoroughbred horse. Orion and I ran downstairs and watched it trot down to the creek, walk into the creek, jump our bridge (a moose jumping a hurdle is a sight to behold) and trot off down the creek. It was a male with velveted antlers.
Later that night, I was lying in bed and Orion was upstairs, and I heard one of the freakiest sounds I've ever heard -- a deep, long, drawn-out, rising and falling moan. I got up convinced that something was horribly wrong with one of the dogs, but Orion said it came from outside. We figured it was a moose call. I looked up online this morning and the Internet claims that is a cow moose mating call (the bulls are supposed to grunt instead); however, I talked to my dad about it this morning and he said that he's heard that noise and actually saw a male moose making it -- he thought the moose must be wounded because it was groaning like that, so he approached it, and it freaked out and ran off into the woods. ("You're not a WOMAN!")
I knew that moose made noise, since clearly moose calling wouldn't work otherwise, but still, it was pretty cool. I've never heard that before.
Later that night, I was lying in bed and Orion was upstairs, and I heard one of the freakiest sounds I've ever heard -- a deep, long, drawn-out, rising and falling moan. I got up convinced that something was horribly wrong with one of the dogs, but Orion said it came from outside. We figured it was a moose call. I looked up online this morning and the Internet claims that is a cow moose mating call (the bulls are supposed to grunt instead); however, I talked to my dad about it this morning and he said that he's heard that noise and actually saw a male moose making it -- he thought the moose must be wounded because it was groaning like that, so he approached it, and it freaked out and ran off into the woods. ("You're not a WOMAN!")
I knew that moose made noise, since clearly moose calling wouldn't work otherwise, but still, it was pretty cool. I've never heard that before.