Shhh. Be quiet. Can you hear that? - Democratic Underground

Redstone

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Sat Jan-26-08 11:40 PM
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Shhh. Be quiet. Can you hear that?

Its the coyote clan that lives in the woods about a quarter-mile away, getting together for their nightly howl.

I've been listening to that four or five nights a week for five years now, and never get tired of hearing it.

Redstone

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CaliforniaPeggy

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Sat Jan-26-08 11:43 PM
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1. I wish I could hear it, my dear Redstone...

I can only imagine it...

They do it year-round?

If I visit later on this year, whenever the meetup happens, I might even get to hear it myself!

And how cool that would be...

:hi:

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Redstone

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Sat Jan-26-08 11:51 PM
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5. Yes, all year. a little after 9 at night during the summer, later during the winter.

I always open the window or go outside so I can hear it more clearly. It's a magical, musical sound to me.

When I hear it I picture them, in my mind, gathering together after the evening's hunt and greeting one another as canines do, before setling down for the night in a big pile o' warm coyote.

Redstone

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Prisoner_Number_Six

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Sat Jan-26-08 11:48 PM
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2. What- they take a break for the weekends?

You should plant a couple mics and record it. Put it up against anything on Clear Channel and it'd go platinum in a week. :evilgrin:

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Redstone

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Sat Jan-26-08 11:56 PM
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6. What, you don't like Clear Channel? Just because they've homogenized FM radio to the point

where every station plays the same thing, and it all sounds like tepid oatmeal?

Just because they've turned so many radio stations into "robostations" without even one live DJ?

Just because they deliver prepackaged, soulless crap that makes you want to vomit, because not only is it THE SAME CRAP OVER AND OVER, it's also really bad prepackaged, soulless crap?

Why do you hate us for our freedoms?

Redstone

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Prisoner_Number_Six

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Sun Jan-27-08 12:08 AM
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14. Ahh. A CC stockholder who admits what's going on?

Deny it. I dast ya. I double dast ya. :evilgrin:

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Redstone

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Sun Jan-27-08 12:13 AM
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15. Hey, don't blow my cover, OK?

Edited on Sun Jan-27-08 12:21 AM by Redstone

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flvegan

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Sat Jan-26-08 11:49 PM
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3. I wish I could.

Here in city hell, we don't get coyote cries.

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Redstone

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Sun Jan-27-08 12:00 AM
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9. I'm sure that you, of all people, do wish that. It makes me want to go into the woods and

do a "dancing with wolves" thing, and howl along with them.

But I won't. I'll take the gift of being able to listen to them, and be happy with it.

Redstone

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flvegan

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Sun Jan-27-08 12:08 AM
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13. When I'm really lucky

I take my Gary Fisher Sugar out into the woods. No coyotes, but I get deer, bobcats, gators...wildlife.

I'm envious of your ability to hear and be around them.

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Ellipsis

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Sun Jan-27-08 12:13 AM
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16. I used to hear them all the time in the "coulee region", only time I ever saw them was in city.

Edited on Sun Jan-27-08 12:14 AM by btmlndfrmr

One in Wauwatosa, (saw him a couple times) one in South Milwaukee, both in the late afternoon, early evening.

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Muttocracy

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Sat Jan-26-08 11:50 PM
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4. cool! I miss hearing them

I moved from a more rural apt to a more urban one (in upstate NY). My dogs were absolutely fascinated listening to them, as was I. I only heard them a few night a year, usually very cold clear nights in the middle of winter. Sometimes I could make out what sounded like the younger ones yipping a bit higher than the grownups! :) Enjoy!

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Redstone

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Sat Jan-26-08 11:58 PM
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8. Yes, you can pick out the individual voices after a while. It's fun to be able to do that.

Redstone

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bicentennial_baby

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Sat Jan-26-08 11:58 PM
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7. You're making me miss home...sigh

Miss my parents' house, no streetlights, hear the wind, see the stars, coyotes howling in the woods across the field from our house...sigh. x(

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Redstone

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Sun Jan-27-08 12:04 AM
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11. We're only a mile and a half from I-95, and less than a mile from the AMTRAK

Northeast Corridor tracks. But we have a strip of woods behind the house that runs unbroken for three miles down to an extensive salt marsh (and Wildlife Management Area), with islands, that goes up and down the Connecticut River for five miles or so.

A Critter Highway, it is. We've had the coyotes, deer, and wild turkeys strolling trhough our yard to get from that strip of woods to the swamp across the street more time than I can remember. I like it.

Redstone

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Fox Mulder

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Sun Jan-27-08 12:02 AM
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10. Ohhh...I love that sound.

Especially on a night with a full moon...it makes everything seem magical and eerie.

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Redstone

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Sun Jan-27-08 12:07 AM
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12. It does, indeed. The only time I get annoyed is once in a while when they decide to

have their howl in the woods RIGHT behind our back yard (which isn't very big). Drives our puppy and the neighbor's dog nuts.

But even then, I figure it's better to hear it annoyingly loud than not at all.

Redstone

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Generic Brad

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Sun Jan-27-08 12:13 AM
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17. I can't hear them over the clamor of drunken Vulcans

It's Winter Carnival time in St Paul and there are inebriated businessman dressed in red suits and capes driving around town with their fire truck (siren and all) looking for ladies to mark with the black markers.

Why do I live here again? We get Vulcans every January. September the GOP comes to town. I would prefer coyotes.

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Redstone

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Sun Jan-27-08 12:22 AM
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18. Oh, jeez, that sounds really annoying. I'm all for festivals and such, but that one

doesn't seem like it would be much fun to have to live with.

Redstone

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Generic Brad

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Sun Jan-27-08 12:28 AM
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19. That's what I get for living downtown

Edited on Sun Jan-27-08 12:28 AM by Generic Brad

They are actually a little quieter this year than they have been in past carnivals.

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Redstone

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Sun Jan-27-08 12:30 AM
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20. Ah, but I'd guess it's a small price to pay for being able to live downtown, yes?

I've always preferred to live "in town" in small towns, and I suspect that if I lived in a city, I'd want to be downtown as well.

Redstone

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Generic Brad

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Sun Jan-27-08 12:34 AM
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21. It's only two weekends a year

I really do not have anything to complain about in the scheme of things.

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texanwitch

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Sun Jan-27-08 12:41 AM
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22. We have coyotes near our house, in the woods.

I have seen one of them in the railyard from time to time.

I love to hear them at night.

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Ellen Forradalom

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Sun Jan-27-08 01:11 AM
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23. On the ranch in Carpinteria I often heard the pack in area howl

One evening towards 5:30 I had to slow to a stop to let a dozen cross the road, one by one. Quite a sight.

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Kat45

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Sun Jan-27-08 01:13 AM
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24. A coyote was seen in Allston the other day!

For those who don't know the Boston area, Allston is a part of Boston, quite urban and full of students.

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Redstone

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Sun Jan-27-08 02:50 AM
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25. They're going to where the easy food is, just like the raccoons.

How've you been lately? It's been a while since we've talked.

Redstone

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Kat45

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Sun Jan-27-08 09:08 PM
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26. Yeah, it has been awhile.

Not at my best, unfortunately. I still haven't been able to get a job and I'm getting even more danged frustrated. So bad that I've sunken into an unhealthy mode of staying up til 3:30am, not getting up til 1:00pm, and spending a good deal of the time in between online, mainly on DU. I think maybe I'm depressed--not a good thing when you're on antidepressants already. I can't seem to shake this behavior--it sucks.

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