The Sound of Snow
Or, more specifically, the sound of being in a car driving over snow.
Above like 10 degrees, there is that crunch, crunch, rolling crunch sound.
OK, that makes sense, sounds a lot like when one walks through snow.
But below about 5 degrees, which is what it was day before yesterday - there is a groan sound, kind of like when one is in an airplane and and it is descending, a couple of miles from the airport.
This sound, kind of a deep woooooo sound, has been made by several makes of cars - so it can’t be just me. Really.
Is this just the groan of very cold metal being stressed?
Anyway, this hobby has made me pay a lot more attention to weird sounds around me.
Another one is how many times we hear ‘Eagles Cry’ sitting around here in my office - and how many times this same ‘cry’ is heard on TV shows whenever they have a outdoors shoot. Seems like Eagles are just telling their prey ‘Go Hide, Quick’ squawking like that, but hey, its their business knowing how to be an Eagle, not mine.
January 26th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
Mike, how are you…it is actually a hawk “cry” versus an eagle…:-)
January 26th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Hi David,
A hawk. Oh. That makes more sense. Especially since eagles are supposed to be endangered. Thanks.
[Finally got some nice weather, huh? Kind of a little windy though
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I knew it wasn’t a crow “squawk”. Those sure are LOUD. No sleeping in the middle of the day when THEY are around.
And the vultures, or what people call vultures around here - they don’t seem to make much noise at all. And then there are just the weird birds that make sounds like car alarms going off.
[Neli says “They are TOO eagles”. But now she is starting to equivocate…. So, who knows. I guess there are eagles nesting nearby and they stop on our roof - gives them a ‘birds’ eye view of a lot of territory - but …. that;s just her story…
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Take care,
Mike.