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Re: Midnight mystery

Subject: Re: Midnight mystery
From: Walter Knapp <>
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 09:41:53 -0400
From: Klas Strandberg <>

>
> I have been thinking the same, but then - in my thinking - the wing flaps=

> would have been more irregular and made more noise when hitting the groun=
d,
> branches etc. Now they are too regular and "clean". Also, if a cat or a f=
ox
> took something, it would have made some more noise??
> I guess nobody can ever say for sure what it is.
>
> Anyway, for me it was mostly a test, to see if I could post a file.

I'd listened to this file some time back as you'd mentioned it before.

You've not met our cats if you think they cannot be silent hunters. They
only rarely take a bird, but usually can bring it inside before we
notice. And generally the bird is still unharmed. There is a little
sound at the "take" point in the recording that could be a pounce.

Fox are more messy hunters than cats in the few times I've seen them
hunting. And generally more directly interested in eating what they
catch immediately.

Walt




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