{"id":825,"date":"2025-10-14T14:06:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T18:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mirrer.com\/MirrerView\/?p=825"},"modified":"2026-01-25T10:56:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T14:56:23","slug":"heard-on-the-at","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mirrer.com\/MirrerView\/2025\/10\/14\/heard-on-the-at\/","title":{"rendered":"Heard on the AT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"360\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 640 \/ 360;\" width=\"640\" controls poster=\"https:\/\/www.mirrer.com\/MirrerView\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/at-SD-480p-mov-image.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mirrer.com\/MirrerView\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/at-SD-480p.mov\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I camped overnight while doing some trail work on the Appalachian Trail in July. I was the only human I saw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overnight, I started hearing this sound. Over and over. And getting closer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I didn&#8217;t get much sleep after that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still don&#8217;t know what it was. Some kind of birds, maybe?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">UPDATE<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Several friends have told me the sounds are from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/guide\/Barred_Owl\/overview\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/guide\/Barred_Owl\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">barrel owls<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I camped overnight while doing some trail work on the Appalachian Trail in July. I was the only human I saw. Overnight, I started hearing this sound. Over and over. And getting closer. I didn&#8217;t get much sleep after that. Still don&#8217;t know what it was. Some kind of birds, maybe? UPDATE Several friends have&hellip;<\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirrer.com\/MirrerView\/2025\/10\/14\/heard-on-the-at\/\" title=\"Heard on the AT\" class=\"entry-more-link\"><span>Read More<\/span> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Heard on the AT<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,48,49,21],"tags":[24,50,22,35],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-appalachian-trail","category-camping","category-hammock","category-hiking","tag-appalachian-trail","tag-camping","tag-hiking","tag-trail-maintenance"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mirrer.com\/MirrerView\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mirrer.com\/MirrerView\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mirrer.com\/MirrerView\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mirrer.com\/MirrerView\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mirrer.com\/MirrerView\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.mirrer.com\/MirrerView\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":881,"href":"https:\/\/www.mirrer.com\/MirrerView\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions\/881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mirrer.com\/MirrerView\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mirrer.com\/MirrerView\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mirrer.com\/MirrerView\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}