Favorite outdoor sounds.

Fotgot my favorite: the sound of a boat side boiling big pike.

I don’t tent camp anymore but rain drops on the tent roof at night.

almost any sound made by nature,loons,barn swallows as they keep guard over their young,any bird really during the spring time.
children and puppies at play,but my favorite???
a campfire crackling away in Mn while on vacation,funny how quickly that washes away the noises of man and their infernal machines.

Many good sounds have been mentioned, but here are a couple more:

Bull elk bugling

Bobwhite quail calling

Buffalo Fishhead

Amazing thread.
My compliments to the OP.

I’ll go with red winged black birds singing on cat tails and
The super slow, steady drag from a big fish that doesn’t care that he’s hooked

So many great sounds in the world.
Wind in pines is wonderful. That quiet at first light in the deer stand while the woods wakes up. Spring frogs and toads singing. Wolves howling. Thunder at the cabin that seems to go on forever.

I love the sound of a 2 stroke dirt bike ripping up a track.

Bearcat89 wrote:

I love the sound of a 2 stroke dirt bike ripping up a track.

I hate all the 4 strokes these days. I get the power, it’s just not the same. I love the 2 strokes. The smell in the Metrodome back in the day was amazing!
DT

deertracker wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Bearcat89 wrote:</div>
I love the sound of a 2 stroke dirt bike ripping up a track.

I hate all the 4 strokes these days. I get the power, it’s just not the same. I love the 2 strokes. The smell in the Metrodome back in the day was amazing!
DT

I agree 100 percent. I still have 2 stroke bikes. Always will.

Thanks Dutch this is a great post.
Early this summer I was out on the lake at sunset. The loons started calling, they were all around me but I didn’t see one. There had to be 10 to 12 of them. They all had a bit different pitch and cadence. It sounded like a symphony in surround sound.
I was lucky enough to experience it 2 weekends in a row.

Suzuki – I hear ya with the Tinnitus, the silence is deafening. Mine is like having that 17 year cicada in both ears all the time.

I’m happy I’m not the only one with tinnitus.

At a cabin on the lake(snowbank) in northern MN and wake up to a cool breeze blowing thru the open windows and waves lapping on the rock shoreline with the loons giving you a mellow wake up call in the background.

2nd is the duck wings whistling in the morning twilight.

Rooster cackle in the AM sitting in the deer stand
Woodpecker banging its beak on a tree
Prefer fishing with others, but when you’re alone and have a big one on, the squeal of that drag
Fish flopping on the ice
Ice cracking (with sudden shift of movement)
Worst sounds:
BUGS BUZZING

2am Loon calling in N Manitoba
Mourning Doves
Drumming Grouse
Heavy Deer hooves on dried oak leaves
Lantern burning in an old ice fishing shack
Lake freezing

Setup on a rockpile with bobbers right at dusk, several other boats around. This calming silence between everybody, then someone just rips a loud one.

Sipping a hot cup of good coffee out on the deck on a cold morning.

Frogs and hummingbirds.

I’m surprised no one has mentioned;
The sound of antlers crashing together! followed by turning your head to watch a couple of bucks fight, especially Elk

Frying Bacon, with eggs, knowing your going to be killing the crappies in a little while.

I do have one other favorite.

I’m fishing a snag on a back channel, big tournament boat screaming by me at top speed …….. and whoops….. they eat the brown stuff on the sandbar, 40 yards across from me & then proceed to give more gas and plow their way thru the sand from a dead stop. Never gets old.

Huntindave wrote:

I’m surprised no one has mentioned;
The sound of antlers crashing together! followed by turning your head to watch a couple of bucks fight, especially Elk

I was gonna mention the sound of a bull moose walking through the woods or should I say moose cover. Very loud and lots of snaps crackles and pops. Those are some hardy animals!

Fist gun shot you hear on opening morning of deer season.

This time of year I loved hearing the crickets and bugs day and night. They get loud this time of year.

Firing up the old 8N to plow food plots

The sound of Garver’s bat hitting HR 268…

It’s amazing how reading all these sounds makes you vividly hear them in your head.

Only heard it in two places….

Nipigon and isle royals, while camping…the gentle splushing/gurgling/rushing of the water in rock crevasses when the lake is calm. If you haven’t heard it, I can’t describe it. It is a sound that isn’t like anything I’ve ever heard on any normal sized body of water. It is awesome.

when I hear the truck pull in with my kids and grandkids

when I hear the truck pull in with my kids and grandkids

the baritone woosh of wind high in a big red or white pine
an old sportwin 9.9 evinrude a mile or so off on a calm morning
lantern in a fish house
hermit thrush
receding thunder heard from a tent