If you're on your back garden now what can you hear?

[MrsDTucker]

Birds.

Some kids screeching playing in a paddling pool.

Other Kids screaming.

Next door neighbours kids kicking a football against my fence.

Birds, the breeze in the trees and some planes that go overhead every few minutes. Don't have neighbours, it's heaven.

Tinnitus. 8hz in one ear and a whooshing 4hz in the other. A barking dog, again. The guy who owns all the power tools using them on rotation. Another vacuuming their car. A woman hosting her live, laugh, love Prosecco buddies. And the worst of all is an autistic adult male about 6 houses away who spends a lot of his time vocally stimming. It’s very difficult to listen to. He is LOUD and can scream all day. My compassion for him is gone. I wish his family would take him to an empty field now and again. I live in a very affluent neighbourhood, but it’s horribly noisy.

Seagulls shouting and squawking

Bees/wasps, whatever

A high pitched continuous alarm (my favourite)

A few birdy noises

Distance voom of the road

The rustling of the bamboo next to me

The woman next door with her diesel powered woodchipper feeding a million branches through it. It occasionally stops but that's when she gets the diesel powered chainsaw out to cut more branches. And the wood chipper starts again.

She's wearing ear defenders. We aren't.

She keeps this activity for sunny weekend lunchtimes and it continues to sundown.

Birds and the occasional car…cars aren’t loud as the pat of the garden I’m in is well away from the road and there’s nothing behind us, my washing flapping on the line when there’s a gust of wind

Cars and birdsong. Pigeons flapping hard as they do. A small plane approaching. A motor boat. DH was just cutting the grass so I could hear the mower, but has stopped now.

Next-door's poodle yapping.😡

Trees rustling and bird song. Lovely 😊

Birds. Lots of birds. A very distant hum of a hedge trimmer. DS13's drumming. If all that shuts up I might be able to hear the faint swoosh of traffic on the motorway or the planes overhead.

I don't use mine because of a near neighbour's kids constantly being at full volume. Been like this since they moved in 3 years ago.

I'd qualify this by saying it's a family house type estate, I've had my own DC, most houses have kids and next door is a busy childminder who has raised 4 kids at the same time. All just normal level noise.

I don't know what can be done to be honest. I keep hoping they will grow out of it but it ruins any decent weather we have for anyone in the radius.

Yes it’s this one - I love it. Need to download the European database once you have it but it works all around the world. I’ve just been in Greece and delighted catching birds I’ve never heard of!

Sheep in the fields behind, birds in the garden & now my enjoyment of such bucolic sounds has been ruined by the inevitable lawn mowers...

People playing tennis
Screaming from the park
Neighbour sneezing

Birds, the odd dog barking, kids playing out, wind through the trees, the odd bit of traffic noise Mainly peaceful Sunday at the moment, although either side might stick sone music on when they come outdoors. Summer's great

Is it free?

Cicadas, the horses occasional snort and the festa in the village warming up. It will be going on until the early hours of tomorrow morning...

Scaffolding going up. Yelling, shouting and swearing and a radio at full blast. Been like this since 8am

My DS is kicking a ball around. Can hear the neighbours in their garden with their grandchildren also kicking a ball around. Can hear quite a few lawnmowers in the background. Only screeching is from seagulls.

A strimmer. Thankfully no screeching children

Yes I think so

Frankly it would be worth a tenner, I’ve had so much enjoyment out of it over the past 12 months or so

Stereophonics. AirPods needed to drown out cars, planes, lawnmowers, dogs and neighbours’ chitchat. Wouldn’t be without them!

Distant children playing football.
Chiffchaff singing intermittently.
House martins and swifts calling as they zip over.
Herring gulls grumbling and their tiny chicks peeping.
Greater black-backed gulls very deep call and their chicks peeping.
Goldfinches with their silvery calls.
DH rustling the newspaper.

@BigBoysDontCry Deepest sympathies. It’s tough to never enjoy a nice day.

Thank you. I feel like a grumpy cow about it but it's not normal level kid noise. Next door, who share a back fence with them and are also driven insane, tell me that the mother does try to shoosh them a bit but the dad seems to just make it worse.

Maybe they'll move. 🤞