Posted: 2/6/2026 5:53:58 AM EDT
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I went out to get a few pieces of firewood and clear as a bell I hear this sort of yell or howl. The camera picks it up but of course not super loud on the recording. I am in NW NC on Round Peak Mountain, a few miles from Fisher Peak. I have never heard anything like this before. Not saying what it is because I don't know. Posting here because GD would be a clown show. I had to do screen record on my phone to get a video of it saved. https://vimeo.com/1162474455 |
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I didn’t hear much volume but it sounded like coyotes around my neck of the woods. 4am is late for vocalizations,….maybe because I am sleeping normally lol. Around here I hear them from just after dark til about 2 am. By 4 am they’re heading back or already back in the den based on traffic patterns on my cameras. But anything is possible. At 4am it may be another early riser’s dog that just got let out. mI used to have a neighbor with dogs like that, old people who let their dogs out and they’d be howling and barking to their neighboring dogs for the first few hours of the day. That got old but so did the owners and they’re now moved on to the afterlife and the dogs are somewhere else. I don’t know how they tolerated dogs howling for three hours. |
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Sounds like coyote to me. Sometimes they howl like that here also, though not always. On crisp, cold nights, sound carries, and sometimes gets distorted along the way. The hoot of an owl sounds different on nights like these for sure. |
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Coyote ? Growing up in deep East Texas I used to hear them howling all of the time at our lakehouse. Was pretty neat being on the lake night fishing and then hearing the Coyotes get all riled up and howling and yapping. |
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Originally Posted By ponykilr: Coyotes here yip, not really howl. I thought it might just be somebody down the holler, noise carries at night. I get both here, the yips are generally close in talk, the howls are them talking from hill to the next hill as the pack expands out hunting for the night but keep tabs on each other. Their den is nearby in an old cabin basement. The cabin has all about fallen in on itself but they basically have a roof over their heads literally and a warmer than outside basement. They frequently pass through my little pass between my two hills and work the tree line behind the houses on my road. Heck I found tracks where they were looking between my garage foundation and the fallen snow for mice. They’re all over here and I hear howling way more often than the yips. |
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Originally Posted By 50-140: 4 am is when coyotes make their presence known around here. Within the hour of the wolf. After that comes the hour of regret The foxes do make a lot of crazy sounds. Like poor old finnegan fox. Once in a while they come past the house, but they bring their stinky skunk smell too, more often than not There are also it sounds like a lot of coyotes in the neighborhood too. When they all start howling and yipping, well it is primal. |
