Last night at work, amidst the lightning and light rain, about 2am I heard it ... a baby crying out in the middle of a grassy field next to a cliff in Kapalua ... what's really odd, is that I was expecting to hear it and it still sent chills up my spine.
The one resort I keep an "eye" on at night "Kapalua Bay Villas" has a nesting area for Ua'u Kani birds http://www.hawaiiaudubon.com/gallery/birds/uaukani.html and I was told when I first started working there that at night they let out a cry identical to a baby crying like it's hungry or scared. Last night was the first time I'd heard it though - it is the eeriest sound I think I've ever heard, so familiar, yet so out of place. The sound is so close to a baby's cry that when they were building the resort the workers heard one crying in the field and the police ended up coming and a "man-hunt" took place for 4 hours searching for the lost baby in the grass ... turned out to be a bird.
One of the security guards that covers the Kapalua area told me that when they hear these birds they take it as a sign that they should go the other way ... I can easily understand why they feel that way after hearing one... but it won't stop me from covering that area
One of the other places where I work is filled with owls - I think I'd rather watch them soar across the roads than listen to this one "cry" in the darkness...
Just figured I'd share my "wierd" night with everyone.
G'night now to all ... I'm bushed zzzz
Tim
The one resort I keep an "eye" on at night "Kapalua Bay Villas" has a nesting area for Ua'u Kani birds http://www.hawaiiaudubon.com/gallery/birds/uaukani.html and I was told when I first started working there that at night they let out a cry identical to a baby crying like it's hungry or scared. Last night was the first time I'd heard it though - it is the eeriest sound I think I've ever heard, so familiar, yet so out of place. The sound is so close to a baby's cry that when they were building the resort the workers heard one crying in the field and the police ended up coming and a "man-hunt" took place for 4 hours searching for the lost baby in the grass ... turned out to be a bird.
One of the security guards that covers the Kapalua area told me that when they hear these birds they take it as a sign that they should go the other way ... I can easily understand why they feel that way after hearing one... but it won't stop me from covering that area
One of the other places where I work is filled with owls - I think I'd rather watch them soar across the roads than listen to this one "cry" in the darkness...
Just figured I'd share my "wierd" night with everyone.
G'night now to all ... I'm bushed zzzz
Tim