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The Birds Are Back In Town

TheCatWoman

The swallows seem to have gone and all our winter residents are back, every evening for the past couple of weeks we've had skeins of geese, swans and other water birds flying over. Today on our walk I saw some Little Egrets, one of whom went after a fish swiming near the surface and got chased off, I think it was one of those fish that are all mouth and teeth, we get lots of them here. I saw Herons, Oyster Catchers and a dipper bird that I can't remember the name of but was on Springwatch.

We have a goldfinch visiting our garden, the robins are singing, the Starlings are mumerating and the sparrows squabbling, the RAF are just noisy.

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  • I love the sound of the geese as they fly over and I often wave to them! I do miss the swifts screaming past. I saw a pair of grey heron fly quietly over me the other day.

    When I visit my friends' allotment, I visit their neighbours' runner ducks and their chatter always brightens my day. 

    The RAF fast jets fly over our village several times daily and, after almost 20 years here, I have come to find them reassuring, much as I believe in peace.

    Garden power tools (especially chainsaws and leaf blowers) and people playing with drones are what I find noisy and irritating these days.

  • in reply to leveller61

    I enjoy stealth jets zooming over, hurricanes, air ambulances and police helicopters. I was born in an industrial city and never heard such sounds as a child. I also love flocks of corvids chattering away as much as individual birds in a garden. Tractors, power tools and mowers remind me of summer, so I don't mind the noise they make. At least it's better than poor Ukrainians having to listen to drones and bombs. I count myself very lucky indeed. 

  • in reply to Marianne72

    I hate stealth jets, they make the air groan, hurcs of Fat Alberts as they were known as were alright.

    Tractors thundering past your house at the crack of sparrow fart isn't so much fun, they're so huge now.

    I find power tools a distressing noise, especially chain saws.

    Whilst I'm glad I don't live in a country aflicted by war, I don't think the comparisson is really fair, we can always find someone worse off than ourselves if we look hard enough, but nobody should have to live in fear or be so effected by other peoples noises that they end up staying inside nearly all summer or having PTSD triggered.

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    Put out a thread on here about effective headphones. I would be interested in that too.

    I'm lucky that I now live in social housing, as the Landlord deals effectively with neighbour noise. The only think you could do would be contact your local council if the noise is related to recording equipment, as they can confiscate these items [I did this in Oxford with a late night/early morning student party - I heard the students arguing furiously but the council man removed their record player]. Sadly, they don't deal with noisy kids [pity! I expect other of your neighbours might like these kids removed into council care!!].

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  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    Put out a thread on here about effective headphones. I would be interested in that too.

    I'm lucky that I now live in social housing, as the Landlord deals effectively with neighbour noise. The only think you could do would be contact your local council if the noise is related to recording equipment, as they can confiscate these items [I did this in Oxford with a late night/early morning student party - I heard the students arguing furiously but the council man removed their record player]. Sadly, they don't deal with noisy kids [pity! I expect other of your neighbours might like these kids removed into council care!!].

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