In the middle of a city (Tucson AZ) it’s difficult not to hear the sirens and the loud cars, but I’m a night owl and can hear what I want to hear. After living in Mexico for ten years, I can just about shut out any noise outside my windows. I practised on 17 tin can church ‘bells’ and a dog next door that never ( I swear) took a breath - he just kept barking all day nonstop. I wonder how he ate anything. But now in Arizona, the night is the best time to sit outside and feel the cool air because that’s the only time it’s cool! I’m writing this at 11:30 pm and I’m heading outside in a minute. I’ve also become the midnight gardener for the same reasons.

I live in Tucson too, but I live up high away from the city where it is very dark and very quiet. I occasionally hear the cry of a coyote, but otherwise silence - not even traffic noise. In the morning it is different as I hear the chirps of so many different birds and it is quite lovely to hear their sweet noise. I, too, am a night owl, as find the late night hrs. the best. One thing about here is the clearness of the sky at night, as the stars are just beautiful. My son-in-law from CA is a star gazer and is amazed at our night sky.

I’m only five minutes from downtown, but I live on a non-through street with speed bumps (another nightowl here).  There’s virtually no noise at night whatsoever.  In the morning, however, the birds go nuts.  If I’m at my boyfriend’s, who lives on the river, you can hear millions of frogs at night along with the occasional chattering of arguing raccoons.

If it’s warm enough to have the windows open, I hear crickets, and the occasional car going down Division Avenue (mine is the first house on the street). Once in a while, the sound of a train in the distance.

We’re out in the country in southern Virginia, and a pond is not too far away.  We hear the great frog chorus.  Big frogs, little peepers - all kinds of croaking.  Just before sunrise, the birds start singing, and you can hear the chickens, cows and sheep down the road.

The forest sounds outside our windows can be scary but at the same time soothing.  The crying of a baby raccoon sounds like a baby crying.  Mama raccoon in heat sounds like screaming.  Bobcats can growl but they also scream which sounds like a woman screaming.  Deer bleat to their fawns.  Coyotes yap at the moon and at themselves and just don’t shut up. Wild turkeys cluck and then have short staccato notes. 

Then I hear something like windows slamming even though the neighbors are quite a distance away.  I think they don’t like living in the forest even though the forest is like an orchestra.  To live there, you must like the music of the wild.

Now that the outdoors season has officially begun, the weekends are busy and noisy, but the nights are whisper quiet. 

Yesterday, my favorite neighbor, George, had his garage radio cranked up to some 70’s music which he sang to as he worked on his retro Mustang (undoubtedly of 70’s model).  Summer has begun in the neighborhood.  I like that.

Outside our house we hear birds all night and crickets and frogs.  Its great!  Living near the River has its perks.

So nice to have the windows open again! Fresh air is wonderful - a little hint of salt in it is even better!

Living two house from the beach we get the sound of waves as well as the crickets. Instead of roosters first thing in the morning, we hear the loud cawing of at least a pair of crows. The crows always sound like they have a dialogue going on.

Birds. We bought a house on a large lot (over an acre) with a patch of woods beside and in the back of us as a sound barrier. Our house sits down a slope so we have privacy even thoug we are in a subdivision. We feed the birds and squirrels daily. When we have hanging baskets on the deck birds nest in them.

I hear roosters crowing, horses clip clopping past the house, church bells ringing, the call of the guy selling gas (or water, or vegetables), the gardner sweeping.  I live in Mexico.

so how is it that the pie chart says 100% traffic noise and the posts are mostly things like crickets? did people not vote? or is the lovely pie chart that you can virtually never read anyway just screwed up?

don’t ya wonder how many of the questions of the day are actually marketing surveys lol..