Sika Whistling

[Yorric]

Was up in the forest today & a sika was whistling away quite merrily. This is the first one I've heard this year. (we don't have very many around here). -- Great to hear them - so wild & intense!!
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Anyone else hearing them currently?

Ian

 

[Wheesht!]

Hi Yorric,

Yes, hearing them infrequently over here too.

My dogs love it, and love waking me up at all hours to tell me too!

 

[patterdale]

No whistling here in loch awe side yet but fresh scrapes appearing

 

[William Grant]

My brother has heard 2 different sika stags in the last week on Novar estate.

 

[csl]

No sika round here

Looking forward to getting up there in October and hearing them... makes the hairs stand up on the back of the neck!

 

[Wheesht!]

My brother has heard 2 different sika stags in the last week on Novar estate.

Spend a couple of nights/mornings a week foxing and management culling with an ex-Novar keeper. I've heard a lot of old stories set on that ground!

 

[swarovski]

Never been lucky enough to see one let alone hear one whistling

 

[tom308w]

Swarovski the first time you hear them whistling is a bit eerie and you won't forget it Atb Tom

 

[JAYB]

I've heard nothing yet.

John

 

[tom308w]

John your in prime position to hear them from the garden hope you and Sheila ok will see you at Kelso Tom

 

[Wheesht!]

They're just starting to show themselves now too. Got a goid look at two stags the night before last. Haven't seen them at all 'til now - they're like ghosts!

 

[Canbull]

a few have started in Wicklow yesterday and a buddy of mine could have shot one. he watched it for a while, the neck wasnt fully up but it was covered in muck from a nearby wallow.

 

[Ranger22]

No sign or sound of the stags getting active here yet. Calm before the storm

Al

 

[cervus]

Heard a Sika stag whistling yesterday in The New Forest,whilst on stakeout for fallow......

 

[jamross65]

heard the first whistle last year in third week of August, first time ever before September! Been out a lot recently and heard nothing. Wallows and scrapes starting to appear though...

​real drop in temperature now with us so hopefully we will hear them shortly...

 

[dlz90]

Heard the first one of 2013 monday night past, I just love the sound of the sika stags eerily beautiful....