Heavy Breathing

If you were here in Australia I would say it was a possum. We get it every night along with loud thudding as they run across the roof.

A friend had badgers in her garden and they co9uld be heard beathing from inside the house.

In my mother's later years she used to have bad lung problems. She would try and phone me and leave a message if we were out. She always missed leaving a message but I knew it was her by the heavy brreathing .

We'll settle for badgers then.
A bit of a worry, we live on a farm and have cows. The issue of whether badgers spread TB is unfinished with good arguments from both sides about it and I don't want to start an argument for/against culling here.
All the same, I'm a bit worried. If we have even one cow affected the whole herd will be culled, and no compensation. It would bankrupt us.
(yet I still don't agree with killing badgers)

Hedgehogs often make a lot of noise too.

If it’s badgers there should be a sett nearby. Also badgers tend to rootle and make a mess digging up parts of your garden. One way to know for sure would be an infra red camera.

The night camera is a good idea, my friends did this and it was fascinating to see all the nocturnal wild life in their garden.

Hedgehogs would be my guess

I agree aggie

I agree it was probably hedgehogs.
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I agree it could be hedgehogs, we can hear them in the garden even when we can't see them. Although I don't know if we would hear them through an open window unless they were very close. But the badger makes quite a bit of noise too - we only see it once or twice a year and it never digs up the garden. I think our garden is just en route to wherever it is going.

I used to have badgers in my garden every evening and have never heard them huff and puff. My attention was drawn to them for the first time by the chomping noise they made eating the baby frogs from my plant pots! Thereafter I gave them peanuts until rats discovered them, and unfortunately had to stop encouraging wildlife.

ginny

Hedgehogs often make a lot of noise too.

They also know how to put the outside lights on as well!

shysal

I agree it was probably hedgehogs.
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😂😂😂

When I’ve had hedgehogs in the garden it’s usually been late evening @11pm. They also made a whistling noise but that’s because there were two of them talking to each other. Maybe put a hedgehog feeding station outside with cat food in: if it is hedgehogs anything larger won’t be able to get to the food.

Believe it or not hedgehogs can make lots of noise breathing and snuffling.

Not breathing but as soon as I get into bed I hear a noise like a helicopter overhead or a loud motor nearby.
When I open the window there is nothing there so it must be coming from indoors.
There is nothing obvious left on so I have no idea what it can be. When I wake in the night it has stopped.

kircubbin2000

Not breathing but as soon as I get into bed I hear a noise like a helicopter overhead or a loud motor nearby.
When I open the window there is nothing there so it must be coming from indoors.
There is nothing obvious left on so I have no idea what it can be. When I wake in the night it has stopped.

My combi boiler runs for a minute of so every now and again when the heating is off. I think something to do with readying it for hot water running. I am aware of it at night and don't settle until it stops.

That sounds weird kircubbin.
I've listened to the sounds of hedgehogs and badgers on here (UTube and such) - but the noise I hear is neither.
Its a slow breathing in and out, a bit like a human sleeping.
There's no scuffling in the pots under the window.
When I first looked out of the window I fully expected a cow to have escaped and got into the garden.

kircubbin2000

Not breathing but as soon as I get into bed I hear a noise like a helicopter overhead or a loud motor nearby.
When I open the window there is nothing there so it must be coming from indoors.
There is nothing obvious left on so I have no idea what it can be. When I wake in the night it has stopped.

Oh, me too, I began to think I have tinnitus but I can't hear it downstairs when all is quiet.

Callistemon21

kircubbin2000

Not breathing but as soon as I get into bed I hear a noise like a helicopter overhead or a loud motor nearby.
When I open the window there is nothing there so it must be coming from indoors.
There is nothing obvious left on so I have no idea what it can be. When I wake in the night it has stopped.

Oh, me too, I began to think I have tinnitus but I can't hear it downstairs when all is quiet.

A freezer on automatic defrost?

Just to say that one night my elderly father phoned at 2am saying he could hear water rushing in his loft - he'd already been up the loft ladder (!) to investigate but couldn't trace the leak. OH dressed and went to help (fortunately not far). Turned out it was not a leak but Father's tinnitus

I heard very loud huffing and puffing sounds outside my window one late night this week and discovered a pair of courting hedgehogs circling each other on my lawn.

Hoping for hoglets on or around 11th October (gestation 32 days), and fingers crossed the weather will be kind to them🤞🏼

I have a similar thing in a very shallow roof space between the tiles, having excluded other things I’m wondering (if the similar noise to yours) could be bats.