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Post by majyang on Jan 8, 2018 11:22:21 GMT -5
Tried googling it but best/ closest I can find is that a chipmunk makes the noise; not so sure about that so hoping someone here knows. (please don’t tell it's big foot or Sasquatch)
I've heard it before but no where as often as I did yesterday while in the woods trying to put a tag on a doe. The sound I kept hearing was this really load "knock". Heard it a few times throughout the span of the afternoon BUT it was just the one single knock at a time, (and it'd come from different directions each time). The "knock" kind of sounded like when a wood baseball bat connects with a fast pitched ball. If we were in Siberia I'd say it was the sound of trees snapping from the extreme subzero temps but obviously that isn't the case here.
Help... not knowing is killing me. THANKS
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Post by squirrelhunter on Jan 8, 2018 11:42:27 GMT -5
It would help if we could actually hear it,anyway you could record it and post it here??
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Post by majyang on Jan 8, 2018 12:30:57 GMT -5
It would help if we could actually hear it,anyway you could record it and post it here?? Sorry, didn't think to record it at the time. The noise came randomly and it wasn't until i heard it for may be the third time or so before i actually started to give it any real thought. In total, i probably heard it 5 or 6 times over the course of a 3.5-4 hour sit. No other sound accompanied it i.e. leaves rustling around, foot/hooves steps, animal noises, etc. Had a pretty good view from my perch 25ft up but saw nothing, (except a few squirrels and birds). My daughter was with me in the woods too (about 200 yrds away) and she heard them too. We talked about it on the way home and i told her i thought it might of been a woodpecker just giving the particular tree a "peck" check or someone with a sling shot shooting marbles at dead trees... (I know it's not likely BUT Dad had to come up with something) |
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Post by parrothead on Jan 8, 2018 12:41:11 GMT -5
I heard it yesterday numerous times I have always just called it trees poppin.
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Post by whitetaildave24 on Jan 8, 2018 12:41:36 GMT -5
I heard plenty of trees popping over the weekend. That could have been it.
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Post by surveyor on Jan 8, 2018 12:57:44 GMT -5
I heard it several times while ice fishing yesterday too. It was obviously coming from frozen trees thawing out, though it would be neat to hear an exact explanation of it.
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Post by scrub-buster on Jan 8, 2018 13:00:24 GMT -5
Chipmunks make a knocking noise when they are alarmed.
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Post by deerhunter23 on Jan 8, 2018 14:10:41 GMT -5
I've heard similiar myself and always wondered.
I always chalked it up to the trees talking.
I think yesterday the tree I was in did to be honest. It wasn't as loud as some I've heard, but i did feel a light vibration thru the tree and into my stand.
If my memory serves me correctly, I don't usually hear them during archery, usually later in the season when it gets colder.
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Post by majyang on Jan 8, 2018 14:15:02 GMT -5
I heard it yesterday numerous times I have always just called it trees poppin. Ding ding ding! I think you are spot on, on this. Such an easy answer that had me scratching my head all day. I'm full on-board with trees popping from the freeze and thaw process. Many Thanks! |
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Post by featherduster on Jan 8, 2018 14:27:26 GMT -5
Chipmunks make a knocking noise when they are alarmed.  |
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Post by squirrelhunter on Jan 8, 2018 16:14:34 GMT -5
It would help if we could actually hear it,anyway you could record it and post it here?? Sorry, didn't think to record it at the time. The noise came randomly and it wasn't until i heard it for may be the third time or so before i actually started to give it any real thought. In total, i probably heard it 5 or 6 times over the course of a 3.5-4 hour sit. No other sound accompanied it i.e. leaves rustling around, foot/hooves steps, animal noises, etc. Had a pretty good view from my perch 25ft up but saw nothing, (except a few squirrels and birds). My daughter was with me in the woods too (about 200 yrds away) and she heard them too. We talked about it on the way home and i told her i thought it might of been a woodpecker just giving the particular tree a "peck" check or someone with a sling shot shooting marbles at dead trees... (I know it's not likely BUT Dad had to come up with something) I've heard woodpeckers do that before,peck once to check the tree and then fly to another 1 etc. until they found 1 they liked,very well could've been 1. |
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Post by oldhoyt on Jan 8, 2018 16:19:45 GMT -5
I was hunting in Maine not far from Orono one fall and I heard strange sounds several times. Sometimes a knocking sound, other times it sounded like talking, but nothing you could understand. I described it to an old-timer at camp and he told me it was ravens. Pretty sure your sounds are not ravens, but it was cool.
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Post by alduflux on Jan 8, 2018 17:29:12 GMT -5
The guys on "Finding Bigfoot" say that is a sasquatch communicating back and forth. They call it "wood knocking" or something like that.
The're experts so I guess that's what it is.
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Post by budd on Jan 8, 2018 19:32:51 GMT -5
Heard a ton of tree's popping up here, almost every morning and night, temps have to be well below zero here to here it anyhow. Very deep pop like what your explaining, sounds deep and hollow.
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Post by majyang on Jan 8, 2018 22:11:55 GMT -5
Heard a ton of tree's popping up here, almost every morning and night, temps have to be well below zero here to here it anyhow. Very deep pop like what your explaining, sounds deep and hollow. That's what so wierd about it at first because it was dang near 30 degrees yesterday. Had it been as cold as it was during the 1st of January, I'd of more easily drawn that conclusion. |
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Post by scrub-buster on Jan 8, 2018 22:35:28 GMT -5
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Post by esshup on Jan 8, 2018 22:57:03 GMT -5
(please don’t tell it's big foot or Sasquatch) Help... not knowing is killing me. THANKS Yeti mating call, and I believe they are looking at you when it happens. Hey, you said not to say it was Bigfoot or Sasquatch. LOL |
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Post by Russ Koon on Jan 9, 2018 11:00:13 GMT -5
I was out in the Owen Putnam SF at Rattlesnake Creek CG day before yesterday in late afternoon, and heard the same sort of Knocking sounds you describe. Always a single knock, sounding very much like a tree was being hit with a wooden bat or similar size stick.
I had never heard that sound before, either, in my 55 years of hunting. I ran through all the explanations I could think of at the time, and none seemed to fit well enough to satisfy my curiosity.
I have very seldom been in the woods during or immediately following such a severe cold snap as we just had. The explanation above about tree popping sounds likely to me. I didn't count them, but I'd estimate I heard about a dozen of the knocks during my hour or so of walking very slowly in the woods and investigating tracks.
Haven't yet sought any further info on the phenomenon, but I suspect the "tree popping" will be the answer.
The winter deer trails sure stand out when there's been snow on the ground a few days. I spotted a few distinct ones a hundred yard away while driving the last mile or so to the CG.
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Post by omegahunter on Jan 9, 2018 11:41:20 GMT -5
I have heard them in succession like that as well as single "knocks". Chipmunk was the first thing I thought of on this thread as well. |
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Post by budd on Jan 12, 2018 23:43:25 GMT -5
Just came in from filling the wood boiler, -17. House dogs were in the woods when A poplar tree popped...dogs came tearing out of the woods like they were shot at.....lol
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