This is the blood curdling screeching one of our followers heard night in the woods outside his house. He said the video doesn’t do it just justice, it sounds much worse in real life. After doing research, they think it is a fisher cat, a ferocious weasel like predator that can attack small pets. Needless to say, he says he is very worried about our small dogs being outside now!
Difference between a FisherCat Scream and Red Fox Sound
The user who submitted this video thinks it may be a fisher cat but after listening to it, it almost sounds like a dog or a fox bark. Some of our readers say the Red Fox Scream is often mistaken for a fisher at scream. What do you think? Is this video below a fisher or Red Fox Sounds?
Yeah. In a way they kind of both sound alike though. But still, I think it is a fox. Sorry, to the person who published this video!
i dont the location but it sounds like a grey fox to me
Yes, I agree. This is a fox. I hear them all the time here in Quebec, but they’re red fox.
Thank you for posting this —I think this is the same creature/fox? I have been hearing at night — in Central NJ – so scary!
It is definitely a fox- I woke up at 3am last night to this exact sound- turned on my outside light and a grey fox was sitting in my driveway screaming at my car. It must have gone on for an hour or so. I live in Maryland- on the Eastern Shore.
Absolutely a red fox. There are videos on youtube of them making the exact same call, in broad daylight. Search for “red fox cry”.
that is a red fox warning cry
in the video
that is a red fox warning cry
I just watched 2 Fox pick a fight with a Fisher Cat in my driveway. Total Discovery Channel stuff and this sound was nonthing like the sound the fisher just made. The fisher sounded like a baby being tortured. The Fox where protecting thier babes in the den next store. I could hear the fisher screaming as the fox chased it thru the woods behind my house.
This is definitely a red fox territory bark. There is one that chases our cats. I originally thought it was a fisher cat, but I have seen him up pretty close several times. Just tonight, I got a good look at him running away from me. He is quite fat and happy. I think that he has helped himself to the wild rabbit population in my yard. I can hear him right now as I write this, patrolling through our half suburban/half rural area.
Its a fox.
I was awakened to my rough collie dog barking and my wife poking me saying “are you going to find out what is wrong?”
I went outside holding the dogs collar and the scream was blood curdling. I thought a woman was being attacked in the dark of night. Then the sound came in fairly regular intervals.
It was loud. I would describe it as a very loud seagull noise. I saw the fox across the street. It would sit and wail. Then move quickly to another spot and crouch or sit and wail again. It did this over and over.
We live on an Island in a metropolitan area. (Doty Island, Neenah, WI) We have a den of foxes on the island and they are getting older. After reading this post and others, I think they might be setting up territories. It is late spring and I would think they mate earlier in the year.
When I let my dog go, she moved about 5 paces into the woods toward it, bushy fir and all, looked back at me and ran to the house. We had heard enough!
My husband and I heard a fisher cat last night outside in our yard, the screech was far worse than anything we’ve heard before. We are used to the coyote packs and their crying, but this was much worse!
Lakeville, MA
We have been hearing this noise outside our house in Machesney Park, IL for quite some time. We have a family of red foxes living very near by, and see them several times a week (sometimes even several times a day). I thought that this noise was the sound of bunnies being killed by the foxes, as I was told that bunnies make a horrific scream when being killed. Tonight I hit the jackpot, when I turned on the outside light to see if I could spot some movement in the yard. Sure enought, the fox came trotting into the light after a while, stood still, opened its mouth, and made this very same shrieking noise. I know for certain that it was the fox because I heard this sound come out as it opened its mouth wide. It sure does sound like the sound of something meeting its maker, that’s for sure.
I live in the woods myself. This is definitely the red fox ‘bark’.
This is definitely a red fox – probably a vixen in heat. We have these behind our house – there was one last night. I live in central NC. We do not have Fisher Cats this far south. I have seen the red foxes on occasion, and this noise is quite familiar.
Thank you so much for this!! The sound I heard makes sense now as there are a couple of red foxes denning near by. I was awaken around 3am and heard this. It was very eerie and I was determined to find out what animal it was. Mystery solved!!
Yes, I agree that its more eerie then what you hear in the video. If I were camping and didn’t know what it was I would be getting in my vehicle to sleep. LOL
Hi.
You’re second video is a Barred Owl. Your fourth video sounds like a coon fighting with a cat.
Cheers from Canada.
Linda.
A few years ago we heard a scream like that coming from a field across the street in the middle of the night…at first we thought it was a cougar( I live in British Colombia) but when we searched the noises on the computer, the cougar sounds were different…then we figured it was a red fox after finding an identical sound on the internet…then last night we heard it again at about 1 in the morning for the first time in about 3 years…my brother showed me the fishercat sound and it was identical to this sound here but the foxdoes sound very similair…Its hard for me to detirmine what animal it is becuase the sounds are really similair but im leaning towards fox since ive seen many foxes in my neighborhood and Ive never seen a fishercat in my life
Sounds like a gray fox when marking his territory.
Sounds like a fox to me. We have a lot of red fox around our neighborhood (Andover, MA) and they sound just like that.