Chipmunk Distress Maybe/Maybe not ?

silencerS8

silencerS8

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Any of the vet's here ever hear it ? I sat at work thinkin, man there's alot of chipmunks I mean thousands round here in the north east. In summmer/fall its gotta be one of the main sources of food for predators. I've never heard a distress call from one but know the warning/locating calls. Would it fall under rodent distress..a high pitch squeel chirp type ?

Vic
 
Sounds good in theory. But there probably isn't much difference between that and a mouse squeaker. Its kind of ironic that you bring this up 'cause a friend and I were just talking about something similar. A few years ago we couldn't get up in our treestands without all of the chipmunks going nuts and chirping for hours. But neither him or I have seen or heard a chipmunk all year this year.
Hmmmm, maybe they have all become coyote food?
 
I have never heard a distress from a chipmunk.
Out of all that I have shot not one made a noise. I have hit them with a slingshot and had them run off only to do the chirp doubletime after he came back out of his hole.

Lungbuster are there a lot of feral cats in your area???
Damn things used to wake me up early when I was on 2nd shift. Let the cat outside and she was getting two or three a day.

I will do my best to hear a distress from one as soon as they start to show thier ugly faces.
 
I'd say it would work fine. Just like about any rodent distress. I have used a squirrel distress whistle to call coyotes. I've found many scat piles here in the Ozarks with squirrel claws in the pile. I watched a Red Fox trotting down the road with a chipmunk in his mouth last year. You know they're preyed on by about all predators, to include hawks and owls.
 
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