What sounds do you commonly hear coming from outside your home?

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I would say it's mainly people using power tools and birds twerping

Cows, dogs barking, tractors and cars

Neighbour’s my Stihl saw.

The pigeons and crows kicking conkers around on my flat roof

We had a grown man screaming yesterday, full on hysterics, crying, shrieking, shouting, did I say screaming? Wailing, piercing cries, sobbing, raving.

He'd mislaid his phone, apparently.

Constant fucking barking

God yes, what's with the constant barking dogs these days?

Red kites screeching

Depends on the weather.

Cold = traffic, not much else.

Hot = next door conducting all their calls at top volume in the garden, trampolines, splashing and if we're very lucky, houses opposite having really spectacular traffic stopping arguments in the street.

Cows and semi automatic gun fire. And the people a couple of doors down who are having an extension built.

From an army base nearby.

Crows, a cockerel, next door’s gate banging (why not close it properly?) and one of the girls on the street screaming. There must be 20 kids on the street but you only ever hear that one girl all day long!

Traffic, sirens, birds.

During the summer, all the local jackdaws gather on our street corner as sunset approaches, before heading off to their roosts. Well over 100 of them, sometimes. They make a glorious racket! When the weather's bad, they go to bed early.

Boy racers going up & down the road all the day long. And last night until 3am!

Birds. Occasional car. Occasional horse. Sometimes sheep if the wind is in the right direction. School playtime if it's in the other direction.

At night time - last night an owl, sometimes foxes shagging (which sounds like someone being brutally murdered).

My neighbour telling his girlfriend to piss off, her banging on the back door or window screaming at him to open it, or sometimes mocking him then after an hour she gets let in and he goes to the corner shop and gets her some crisps and chocolate, every...single....day.

The rest of the street are nice hard working folk and they stick out like a sore thumb.

Green keepers and golfers as well as dogs and birds. Currently I can hear the wind in the trees. It's fairly peaceful around here.

Tractors, our chickens, birds, owls in the evening, the neighbour's sheep and chickens sometimes an ambulance.

The noisy family two doors away and their dogs; traffic; sirens as I live near a hospital, fire station and police station; church bells; birdsong; children in the school playground and field (during term-time weekdays); delivery lorries and vans; people using power tools and lawnmowers Two years ago there were music students in the house across the road, and I would hear one of them singing and doing voice exercises. There's a flat further along the street where the inhabitant is a drug addict known to the police, and sometimes he causes a disturbance and sometimes the police knock loudly on his door; passers-by chatting as they walk past; care workers from the care home behind my house chatting on breaks.

That sounds noisy, but it's actually pretty peaceful for a city street, apart from the noisy family and their dogs.

Trucks going too fast over the speed bump, distant motorway, occasional helicopters and small planes. At night bellowing deer.

No neighbours within half a mile but birds, occasionally cows when they're in the field next door, farm machinery, military helicopters on manoeuvres now and then. Mostly just the mill stream falling over the old iron wheel still attached to the side of the house.

Beeping trucks and vans (there’s a block of flats being built behind my building at the moment) plus construction noise; drills, hammers, swearing. Children. The odd dog barking. That weird chirrup sound which is moped riders setting their alarms (Deliveroo riders I think). Drunken singing and whooping. Planes and helicopters going over. Strimmers and mowers. The occasional loud car engine (we have some show-offy supercar owners around here). Sirens. Trains.

Busy train line at bottom of the garden, major arterial road starts beside next door's house and seems to also attract people riding motorbikes with jet engine level exhausts. Ambulance and fire station withIn half a mile. Shagging foxes in the garden a couple of times a week. Oh, and we're on a flight path. Quiet it ain't!

Thankfully double glazing very effective.

First 3 months of lockdown we actually heard birdsong, it was amazing.

The couple next door screaming at each other 🙄

Toddler tantrums. I live opposite a nursery and the parents all park along my road (often on double yellows but that’s a different thread) to do their drop offs and pick ups. At least once a day one is having a full on screaming tantrum.

The noisy family (only the women are noisy)
Front doors slamming.
People eating outside on close by pavements
Bottle and rubbish collection daily
Delivery of barrels to the pub
Kids being walked to a school
Police horses - weekly Friday central stables.
Sirens - police station and hospital
Hubbub outside of three pubs on dry evening's (historic now)
Tables and chairs being put out/taken in from pavement.
Seagulls
A blackbird or two
Helicopters when something kicks off
Can hear big demos or concerts in Hyde park (historic).
Fireworks
Almost never hear traffic - in very quiet little turning.
The hum of London - it’s a constant thing. Currently almost gone it’s so quiet!