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

[WomenHour]

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

Cicadas. Palm trees rustling. Birds. My next door neighbour is an artist, so sometimes power tools and hammers on metal. And then every now and again early in the morning a ship's foghorn.

A very fast A road behind my house and lots and lots of children as I also live next door to a primary school

Motorbikes and fast cars racing up the 30mph road at 90 Turkeys gobbling. Baby buzzards. Children banging sticks on an old bell. Train whistle. When it's a very quiet, the river.

My cat yelling to come in after 5 minutes because he is too lazy to use the cat flap.

Nothing at all. It's dead quiet here.

Seagulls. I know that's not their real name, but that's what I call them, and most of the day/night they are VERY LOUD.

Tractors
Cars
Milking parlours
Cows

Shagging cats

We have a public footpath behind our house so I hear dog walkers, joggers, parents walking kids to school, and prior to this year we also heard teenagers late at night on way home from the pub/a party but not heard any of them since March.

I don’t mind any of them except loud talking joggers at 6.30am!

Fucking foxes.
Actually literally fucking and also really bloody loud and annoying.

Budgerigars (the neighbours keep them)

Ambulances (we live near to a care home)

The other night we heard an owl calling.

There used to be a bird round here that tweeted a wee tune that was like the song I'm a barbie girl.

Screaming, shouting, ambulances and police cars. X

Tractors mostly.

Birds, lawn mower, kids playing, dogs barking, chickens, cars but luckily not too close so fairly quiet.

@GwendolineMarysLaces

Sheep, quad bikes, tractors, curlews

Curlews!

Lucky you! Where are you - Ireland?

Cats, nearly every house in my street has cats and they always sit in my garden and l hate it.

Birds. Mowers. Water feature

Depends on the time of day. Morning: birds tweeting and people setting off to work. Afternoon: children playing, birds, barking dogs, sometimes some music. Evening: older children/teens outside on their bikes and scooters, occasional aeroplanes droning past, some music from a party somewhere (but only on the rare occasion that we have the window open). Night: silence.

Next doors persistently yappy little dogs.

Next door yelling at persistently yappy dogs with no effect at all.

Next doors son with his window wide open watching/playing something where American male voices are discussing and laughing at something.
Plus their water feature running night and day.
😡

Birds
Occasional car

Trains every half hour, electric ones so quite pleasant. Loads of birds, owls at night. Foxes, country ones we live next to a wood. If the wind is in our direction sometimes train announcements.

The sea, birds, trees in the wind, cows in the field behind, donkeys about a half a mile away, but some quirk of the topography means they sound as if they’re coming in the front door, combines in the fields.

Traffic, people talking (usually dickheads complaining about the width of the 17th century lane to town). Then after about 6 nothing apart from the odd tawny owl. It’s bliss.