SEARCHING #76: SOUND EFFECTS

1) Use FindSounds to search for and post at least three animal sound effects in your blog.

Did you know that hummingbirds make sounds? Until I lived in Texas and had a feeder outside my kitchen window, I never knew that they "talked" in addition to the humming sound that their wings make.
http://www.kwic.com/~pagodavista/humming.wav

That sound comes from this site, which makes great use of animal sounds, and can also lead you to many more:
http://www.kwic.com/~pagodavista/schoolhouse/species.htm

Then there is the wonderful sound of a cat purring that I have missed ever since my cat died at age 20 several years ago: http://kessels.com/CatSounds/purr2.wav

Cats make LOTS of sounds, and you can find many of them here:
http://kessels.com/CatSounds/

Loons have fantastic, haunting calls that bring back memories of summer vacations at lakes in Wisconsin and Minnesota:
http://www.wildernessbay.com/loon/loonwail.wav

The sound is used as the background for this website:
http://www.wildernessbay.com/

2) Using the Simply the Best Sounds site, search for sounds in the public domain. Post links to three of them in your blog.

Falling Bomb with explosion:
http://simplythebest.net/sounds/WAV/sound_effects_WAV/sound_effect_WAV_files/bomb.wav

Olympic fanfare:
http://simplythebest.net/sounds/WAV/sound_effects_WAV/sound_effect_WAV_files/fanfare.wav

One of my grandfathers was a railroad engineer, so this file of a train leaving the station brings back fond memories:
http://simplythebest.net/sounds/WAV/sound_effects_WAV/sound_effect_WAV_files/train.wav