Unusual Deer Clicking Sounds

[Vincent Vega]

It was close but the deer was a tad bit faster.

Yep. What HTH said!

 

[Vincent Vega]

I heard a similar sound this past weekend. Several bucks were "spitting" at each other. I also got a grunt snort wheeze and some grunts and some plain wheezes. I only saw one medium buck and this went on for 40 minutes. The one buck I could see was not grunting but occasionally made the spitting sound. By spit I mean it sounded like if you had a little seed or something and trying to get off the end of your tongue. The cadence was about like what you mentioned and would be 2-3 or 10+ in one sequence. The medium buck appeared to be scared to approach the others but I could hear 3 distinct deer (only glimpsed the one buck). Interestingly, the buck I could get glimpses of traveled no more than 20 yards in 40 minutes. He was looking towards the other two very intently. I first saw him as he trotted away from an unseen deer, it appeared another buck chased him away.

I grunted and bleated but could not bring them out. Turkeys 75 yards in front of me where unaffected by the sounds. I really enjoyed listening to them and was hoping my grunt would challenge one to break cover. Also, I hate gallberry bushes lol.

Where were you hunting? It sounds like where ever you are the bucks are gearing up to start chasing does!

 

[timbgtm]

Interesting I always thought it was a woodpecker.

Me too, learn something new everyday.

 

[Stuckon22]

In 30+ yrs I have heard "pine goats" make some very weird noises. They have sounded like pigs, domestic goats, chipmunks, tires losing air...etc. what I am waiting for is to hear them telling each other where to hide on either sex days....:-)

 

[georgiaboy34]

Where were you hunting? It sounds like where ever you are the bucks are gearing up to start chasing does!

South GA near Nashville. I believe the rut isn't over there between the chasing and "doe hoarding", fresh scrapes and bucks being out in daylight.

 

[the last cilck deer call]

I found these on youtube. The second one sounds more similar to what I heard though not exact of course. It sounds crazy and again if I hadn't seen a young buck making this noise a few years ago I never would have guessed it was a deer.

www.thelastcall.co

 

[Kahrnut]

What's a 'cilck' ?

 

[Vincent Vega]

What's a 'cilck' ?

One kilometer...oh, nevermind, that's something else