Smelly Varmint??? (Long Island: floor, land, rank)

[namder1]

Now that it's been warm and I have taken to sleeping with my windows open I have noticed on 2 or 3 occasions a very rank smell wafting through. I sleep on the second floor so I suppose it could be quite a bit away but it sure doesn't smell like it. I remember something about a varmint having quite an odor but can't remember which one. It's not obtrusive like a skunk, but just very rank.....kinda like how a dead mouse smells in a wall. Any ideas????

[OutDoorNut]

Originally Posted by namder1

Now that it's been warm and I have taken to sleeping with my windows open I have noticed on 2 or 3 occasions a very rank smell wafting through. I sleep on the second floor so I suppose it could be quite a bit away but it sure doesn't smell like it. I remember something about a varmint having quite an odor but can't remember which one. It's not obtrusive like a skunk, but just very rank.....kinda like how a dead mouse smells in a wall. Any ideas????

Bigfoot smells really bad.

[PAhippo]

a bar-hopper on his way home?



sorry-not much help.

[Northern Maine Land Man]

namder1 may have bats in his belfry.

I'm just sayin'.

[OutDoorNut]

Originally Posted by namder1

Now that it's been warm and I have taken to sleeping with my windows open I have noticed on 2 or 3 occasions a very rank smell wafting through. I sleep on the second floor so I suppose it could be quite a bit away but it sure doesn't smell like it. I remember something about a varmint having quite an odor but can't remember which one. It's not obtrusive like a skunk, but just very rank.....kinda like how a dead mouse smells in a wall. Any ideas????

It could be a dead animal decomposing, or if your near water, a fish kill of some kind.

Here on Long Island when a major gypsy moth catepillar outbreak suddenly died-off, the woods smelled like carrion for at least a week. I suspect it might have been from all the dead catepillars.

[OutDoorNut]

Originally Posted by Northern Maine Land Man

namder1 may have bats in his belfry.

I'm just sayin'.

Right--could be bat droppings in his attic.

[Three Wolves In Snow]

Originally Posted by namder1

Now that it's been warm and I have taken to sleeping with my windows open I have noticed on 2 or 3 occasions a very rank smell wafting through. I sleep on the second floor so I suppose it could be quite a bit away but it sure doesn't smell like it. I remember something about a varmint having quite an odor but can't remember which one. It's not obtrusive like a skunk, but just very rank.....kinda like how a dead mouse smells in a wall. Any ideas????

Ok, I am not the only one, then. I know exactly what you mean and I've been wondering the same thing, myself.

What IS that smell? It typically comes at night time and it's rank enough that, for example, last night, it woke me up. To me, the smell is a cross between sage, burning rubber and musty.

I even smelled it when I went outside...because I was trying to figure out what on earth it was.

I would love to know, as well.

[8635angelvalley]

Maybe it is some kind of night blooming plant?

[Maine Writer]

A young skunk? Do you have a game cam you can put out?

[Bydand]

I've seen/smelled a few red fox that were quite ripe.