Click on the following hyperlinked address and read about how it has been claimed that when the shadow of the moon of a (total?) solar eclipse falls on the earth's atmosphere that it causes a cooling of the upper air to such an extent that the convection of the air particles causes a sound .:www.universetoday.com/2008/05...-shocks/

If such a claim is right then could it be that some people and or other creatures could have sensitive enough ears to hear that sound ????

Annie Dillard would probably love that anecdote . If she ever writes a sequel to Pilgrim At Tinker Creek , one could imagine her including that anecdote .