Friday Night Fox

What a beautiful night we are having.  The sky is clear, the stars are twinkling, and the air is alive with noise.  Earlier tonight Max started barking at something outside.  This wasn't his normal barking at the neighbor's coming home barking, but a more urgent, something's out there, and I don't know what it is barking.  I went outside and heard another short bark off in the distance.  It was a fox.  I read online that they bark like this for either mating or marking territory; sounds like a typical Friday night, sans the bar. Anyways, I got the fox's bark on video (although the screen is black as I was sitting on our porch in the dark recording the noise).  After I came in to download the video to our computer, I could hear the boom of fireworks in the distance.  It sounded like a pretty big show, although I could not find anything online that would have had a fireworks show for this evening.  Guess it was a private soiree.  After I finished downloading the video, I stepped outside again and heard a great horned owl hooting quite close to the house.  Like I said earlier, the air tonight is alive with noise!