I remember a conversation I had with my mother about it. It has always been in my mind though and in the minds of my mother and sister. Grieving man – image by tap10 from Getty Images Signature We stood on the back porch, staring out into the darkness beneath the trees, feeling increasingly uneasy as we tried to figure out what this strange sound could be. It was sounding once around every ten or twenty seconds, would fall silent, and then start up again. It wasn’t really a whistle and not a hoot either, it was something none of us had heard before. Late one very dark and eerily still night early in August of 2000, we heard a strange sound coming from the trees at the back of the house. The house was surrounded on all sides by huge Cyprus Pines and beyond them at the back was a plantation of tall Gum trees. ![]() The farm was 163 acres and in the middle of it on one side stood our 3-bedroom weatherboard home. This is where I grew up with my sister, my mother, and my father, on my parent’s dairy farm. I want to take you back to August 2000, to a little community in Victoria, Australia called Mardan. That particular bird noise has haunted my family and me for 21 years. Listen to the bird sound below: Recorded at 11:30 PM by Marc Anderson in Paroo Darling National Park, New South Wales. From .ĭiscover more American bird species in this post here on my blog. Smith in Portal, Cochise County, Arizona. Northern Cardinal Example 2 Recorded at 6:35 AM by Brian T. Northern Cardinal Example 1 Recorded at 11:30 PM by Avery Scott in North Hempstead (near Williston Park), Nassau County, New York. The sounds Northern Cardinals make could not necessarily be considered creepy or frightening but they will make them very early in the morning or late at night. Many Native American tribes believed cardinals to be messengers that would carry information to and from the spirit world. ![]() It is thought that Northern Cardinals are messengers for the spirit world and will visit those who have lost a loved one. ![]() Northern Cardinal – image by Ronald Hood from Getty Images Pro
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