Puttering around the rv I kept hearing a bird chirping close by. When I bent over to get something out of the storage compartment the chirping got louder. Could the bird be in the storage compartment? I shuffled things around but no bird.
We have an insect trap which plugs into the rv next to the storage compartment. I needed the extension cord so I bent down to unplug the trap and the chirping got even louder! Maybe it wasn’t a bird, perhaps it was an insect? I know there is a frog that sounds like a cat so why not an insect that sounds like a bird? I put my ear near the trap. The chirp would be strong then fade. I unhooked the trap and dumped the insects. Hooked the trap back up and still heard the chirping. I was stumped.
Could it be under the rv? I bent lower to look underneath, the chirping got louder but still no bird. I opened up the rest of the storage compartments. Still no bird. I went on about my business of cleaning out the black and grey tanks. Sometimes the bird noise would get softer, sometimes louder, sometimes it seemed to be coming from the tree above us, other times from the woods behind us but most of the time it seemed to be coming from the rv itself. Maybe the sound was coming from the tv inside the rv? I went inside, the television was off. I still heard the bird but a little more muffled. The cats were just laying around nonplussed so definitely not inside. I went back to finish up the outside chores.
Time to fill up the tires. I plugged in the air pump and the chirping got louder. I stood up the chirping faded. I started to hook the inflator to the tire and the chirping got really loud. Could the bird be on the tires? Nope no sign of a bird anywhere. It was then I heard a hissing sound along with the bird sound. The hissing got louder! Now what? These were brand new tires! Could it be the inflator? Nope everything was kosher. I bent down again to check the stems on the tires and the noise got louder. Panic over the tires was creeping over me. We had to leave in two days and not only did we have a bird issue but something was spewing air like there was no tomorrow. Now what?
We have a tire pressure monitoring system that works off our phone. After I filled the tires I reached into my pocket to check the tire app to make sure the tires were not losing air. As I removed the phone from my pocket both the hissing noise and the bird chirp got much louder and much clearer.
Our ring app was open on the phone, the ring video camera is on our front deck at home 608 miles away along with a chirping bird and a huge hissing rain storm.
We live in the woods and often get visitors of the wild kind. As I ease back into blogging I thought I would take the easy way out this time and share some footage of our various visitors. Some, like the bear are very recent, other pics are from a while ago.
While hard to tell from this picture. Boris is actually the size of my palm. But what she lacks in size is made up in her presence. There have been several discussions that surround Boris including the debate on selling the house and not disclosing her presence to potential buyers, to burning the place down. When we called the Penn State bug people, (yes, I know a spider is not a bug) they told us not to worry as she is quite common and keeps other spiders away, (not really). I think the spider guy was trying to be re-assuring when he told us we never have to worry about walking into her web, Boris doesn’t make a web as She is a hunting spider! We we figured out Boris was a she when his one day my wife came home and Borisella was sitting on an egg sack. Yes, an egg sack, we now have many of these spiders running about. *sigh*
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