The gray squirrel in my backyard does this in the morning as a way to say HEY WHERES MY BIRD SEED BREAKFAST! He also taps his front legs very fast making tiny tapping sounds☺
Same here 😂 I heard this call about a week ago but didn't see the culprit. I've been looking up UK bird calls for the past week then just come home to a squirrel making this noise in the tree and way like oooohh that's not a bird 🤣 just double checking I wasn't going mad and came across this video lol 🐿️
Lol.. i think this is an alarm call.. the squirrels in your yard would be afraid to go near you if you using this 😅 they'll think there's a predator nearby..
We recently put out a squirrel feeder, after deterring them from our bird feeders. The feeder was empty this afternoon, and I observed what seemed to be a pissed off squirrel bitching about it as it 'walked' away. This is what it sounded like, mostly. I was like WTF, and laughed probably a little too much.
I love my fandom so much. I am literally laying in bed looking up moose and squirrel vidoes to see if y'all have taken over the comments and i was not disappointed
I got to work an hour early and just sat in the parking lot and called squirrels up to my truck by playing this through my sound system. People walking by prob thought I was crazy
I’m watching one of my squirrels in a tree 35 feel from me & he’s been squawking & shaking his tail. I played this video and he stopped, listened & chilled out 👍🏼
That is a squirrel distress call. They say it when there is a nearby predator. The predator could be a lot of things: hawk, a dog, or in this case, a human.
I wouldn't recommend playing the distress call in the woods. It is a call that ANY DOMINANT male or female squirrel in the area come to the rescue. I believe me it does work and squirrels in groups under those conditions are NOT the little cute bundles we throw bread to at the park. They have been known to attack predators even humans and can cause a variety of not pleasant health issues if left untreated....
Squirrels do this nonstop where I live in September, anyone know why? They're pretty quiet throughout the year but in September they go nuts making this sound all night!
Mating , storing for winter, and last but not least they are being shot at as it is also hunting season. So they have 9 or so laid back months of chilling followed by couple months of Complete madness
Crazy I had six pet grey squirrels when I was a kid and never heard them do this until today when I was filming one with my phone it started making this noise lol.
People are saying this is an alarm call, but I don't think it's entirely accurate. The part that sounds like a bird squawking is an alarm for danger, but only alone. That trill or rattling call you hear sometimes in between that squawking sound is a territorial rattle. You can hear it alone sometimes. When it's mixed in with the alarm call, it's still territorial, it's just at a closer range. So this squirrel is probably managing a territorial dispute nearby. Also, to be clear, I'm not an expert at this. I just looked up squirrel calls on a website, and it mentioned that sometimes there are calls that sound like a mix between territorial trills and alarm calls, and that they signal a close range territorial squabble between two squirrels.
Noisy buggers, aren't they! Like a lot of people, I had no idea what the noise was until someone told me. I posted on Facebook "There's a very odd bird call out in my garden at the moment. Alternates between a sort of 'quack quack quack' sound and a 'squarrrrrrkkk' sound. No, it is not a duckparrot", and a friend immediately replied "Grey squirrel. Seriously". Great video, btw. 👍
That's hilarious, I didn't know they made those types of noises. I've one giant grey living on my property amongst the many reds and a chipmunk or two. I'm going to pay more attention t the sounds he makes now.
The screeching sound that a squirrel uses is a way of threatening any intruders to leave the area. Another type of sound made by a squirrel is the alarm call, also known as a warning call. Hope this helps
Squirrels make a ton of noises in the woods we dismiss as other animals. Particularly the Laughing Monkey type sound and a dozen bird type sounds. In fact Most of the sounds u hear early morning in the woods are squirrels. But here we have only deer, racoons,fox, and coyotes and an abundance of birds
This an alarm call, and whilst it may cause a few squirrels to poke their heads out to see what's going on, it's the "young squirrel is distress" squeak that you really need to bring them in to you. Females in particluar often respond to that by coming closer to investigate. The Kuk...Kuk...Kuk....followed by long Quaaas that you hear here is more likely to have them scanning the sky for a hawk and freezing in the hope of not being seen.
Those sounds aren't to do with it's mate, Richard. Grey squirrels don't pair up with mates - it's "wham, bam, thank you ma'am" at breeding time, and then the females and the males part. The male has nothing to do with raising the young, which the female does very much on her own in a nursery drey. What you're hearing is a classic alarm call, with the paws up to the chest and the incessant barking Kuk...Kuk...Kuk....followed by long Quaaas. If you listen caredfully there is a sort of "rattle" in there as well, the meaning of which seems to be territorial in nature. I'm not exactly fluent in squirrel, but I have picked up a bit.
It sounds like they are saying "suck suck squirrrreeell"l I wonder is that is where they get the name. Mine are silent till breeding season then they get musical like wild sax playing. They live under the eaves and are on CCTV and stereo sound.
I played this for a female squirrel outside my window in heat literally making noise for an hour straight and as soon as I played it she left or she went quiet
Yes I know. But this is the call that most people will hear and not know what it is. They don't often do the other calls as I have discovered over the years. Thanks for the additional info! :)
So crazy, in the early 90's I had six pet grey squirrels and never heard them make this noise before until today I was filming one with my phone and it started making this noise at me lol.
Nah I have a squirrel call for that that I hang around my neck when I'm hunting. It's really high pitched like they are getting attacked by a hawk. All the others get curious and come out to see what's going on then they meet the .410 and go in the skillet. I don't use that one very often, usually use the chatter one.
It is a distress call when a cat 🐈 or such like is round about the territory..it attracts the other squirrels on the ground who then run up the nearest tree and they start doing the warning sounds themselves.
Had a squirrel at the bird feeders. Played this sound at a volume only I thought I could hear, at the time. Suddenly the squirrel perked up. I was amazed that it could hear this call at such a low volume on my cell phone, and through wind and light rain. All I can say is thank you! That was the fastest I’ve ever seen a squirrel disappear without firearms and pellet rifles.
