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| Becki |
What can you see and hear from your garden?I can see a farmer in his tractor on his field, the local pub, Lundy Island and the sea.I can hear the sheep in the field next door, the birds singing and general country noises. |
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| Kathy |
In my council house I can here the b****y parrot screeching next door and the traffic on the A92.
In The Garden (for those who don't know, I'm moving) this morning I could here the occasional sheep sounds and the birds singing. 
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| Haize |
Ooh, definate improvement there Kathy!
From our garden, you can nearly always here the rooks (I think) arguing away over on the trees a little way away, a bit of traffic noise, not bad considering it's a ring road, said trees are helpful in that respect when they have their leaves! Unfortunately we have no inspiring views from the garden, it's all fenced off, though you can see various trees dotted around the place. The better views are from our bedroom window, where you can see out to the fields on the other side of the ring road 
The view *in* the garden is going to improve at the end of this week, finally: we're getting a skip, a friend or two to help, and throwing away the junk! Yay! |
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| Aqui |
I can hear the starlings in the trees and the traffic and see surrounding houses. There are a lot of ancient trees left from when this was forest, so i can mostly ignore the houses. | ||||
| Lizzie |
From our garden we can see a heugh (small hill) in to the west and the sea (quite distant, but definitely there) to the east. Northwards is probably the scruffiest farm building in Northumberland and south is a field full of sheep. We can hear mostly sheep and birds and, if the wind's from the east, the traffic on the A1, which is between the sea and us. If the wind's in the west, we can't hear the road at all but we can hear the farm dogs barking (and they nearly always are!). | ||||
| Bovey Belle |
From the garden, I can see the rambling roses I have planted - Paul's Himalayan Musk is just starting to open a few of the million buds it is carrying. This has colonised all the front aspect of the garden so we are hidden from the farmyard over the wall now. To the left I can see the paddock, and the pine trees by the farm water holding tank. To the right I can see the top of the old cart stable, tops of the hills the other side of the river, and the back of the woodshed. Behind me is the house. Up one floor and I can see farm buildings, more of the trees/hills etc. I can always hear birdsong, all day long, at this time of year. Early in the morning it will be pigeons cooing, right now it's a blackbird singing, in the heat of the day there are bees buzzing amongst my plants, and the occasional flip and splash of one of the yellow goldfish, who specialise in this. As it gets dimpsy, Blackcaps start to sing and I pretend they are Nightingales.
We can often hear the dogs barking at the puppy farm over the valley, or the farm dogs barking at the cattle over the wall, or the farm dogs up at Dai's on top o'bank. Fahly will whinney every time he hears my voice. We have a lot of cow mooing going on - "next door" has a milking herd of about 250. Every time we hear a vehicle on the lane we look out to see who it is (we don't get many pleasures round here!) We also have low flying jets which scream over regularly, and "Hercy Birds" doing low level flying pracising drops up the Towy Valley. It's very rarely silent here . . . |
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| nanny-now and forever |
we can hear the river and the birds and there seem to be a whole load of bees in the ash tree at the side of the house....i can hear the turkeys making their noises and the chickens making their busy noises...we have had planes going over as well today but i can ignore those
i can hear the horses talking to each other and every once in a great while, i can har a car go by down on the a4069 but not very often in the evenings............ |
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| Somerset Lad |
At about 4.55am. i can hear about 8 crows all squabbling, 3 magpies doing the same, then 2 pairs of woodies chanting up to each other. By 5 30.am. my 30 odd canaries start singing at the top of their voice. So i get up and put on classic FM. 
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| mc55 |
oh to be a city gal - I can hear ambulance sirens, police sirens the odd fire engine siren, gentle growl of non-stop traffic (actually it does lull between 2-6am) and occasionally some song that always makes me think of Johnnie Cash when the students a few doors down are p*****d and put it on repeat play through the early hours !
... and don't get me started on the flippin police helicopter that seems to hover above OH's house for hours when the football is on. Fab - anyone want to swap ? |
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| mogs |
it is now just gone 6 am, and i can hear all manor of songbirds in the woodland behind us....there are also magpies having a chat to each other, and a cuckoo in the distance....
my computer is buzzing very quietly, i can also hear my sheep calling in from two fields away, and a little quail cockbird is calling from their shed. |
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| Daisy Bell |
children playing.birds.cars. | ||||
| Jellycakesforme |
Today I saw a red parrot, possibly a crimson rosella on the bird feeder. | ||||
| nanny-now and forever |
i used to keep rosellas...were they golden manteled rosellas?
we had a male and female for a while....... can't remember now what happened to them tonight we can hear magpies and red starts and wrens and those finch things and the snorting of the horses in the paddocks- they are right by my back garden...also the chickens sorting themselves out ready for bed no traffic though what a bummer |
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| Kathy |
A crowd of teenagers bouncing and screaming (not for long though  )
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| Jellycakesforme |
I think it was this bird.
http://birdsinbackyards.net/finder/display.cfm?id=50 |
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| nanny-now and forever |
that's the one JCM except ours had gold on it, hence the golden mantled rosella a lovely colourful bird that made lots of noise.... |
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| Jellycakesforme |
That is interesting nanny. | ||||
| Somerset Lad |
Loads of blumin magpies
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| Jojo |
From my garden I can see the houses of the next road,but I live in a sea side town,so I can hear the little train tooting as he puffs along with the holiday makers, I also live near a cricket club,so I hear the ball on bat and a cheer when something good has happened.
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| lloyd |
I can smell the local Chinese takeaway, which is painful when you are hungry and get in from work!!
We look out over neighbouring houses, and hear mainly birdsong punctuated by passing vehicles. |
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| browneyes |
we have two young men next door and they have put a big fence up so cant see much realy,my O H has put an archway against the fence so that our cat can still walk along the top he climbs up the arch and away he goes,on the other side we have new people,the fence isnt all that good so we chat through it,i miss my old next door mate tho,iv got two bird tables so see plenty of them,iv got a pond so can hear the water from that,and iv now got 16 sola lights in the back so its realy pretty at night also one of my bird baths has a sola light so thats pretty as well,i have a small conservatory where i spend a lot of time i the winter,its so nice to look at the weather and not be out in it if its raining. | ||||
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| janowl |
Lots of rooftops, Pied Wagtails, and Starlings | ||||
| mogs |
at the moment...........nothing, not a bird about the place.........perhaps its because we now have a buzzard in the aviary at the top of the garden......fofl.....a rescud juvenile, regaining strength ready to be released in a weeek or two......but the natives are not happy about it, and have gone into hiding.....lol.
i can, however, hear a car or lorry evrynow and again going up the mountain road behind us, and if i look out the side landing window i can see a couple of our horses munching away at the grass........they come up near the house for their brekki about this time every day. |
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| MrsWW |
I can hear the birds singing (probably for me to get my bum into gear and re-fill the feeder which they emptied yesterday), the blue sky and sunshine and I can see our loony Border Collie charging around like a thing possessed! | ||||
| Libby |
Fog!!!! 
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| agapanthus |
You've got damn good hearing Libby!!!!!!!!!!!! 
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| baggy |
my lovely shed that has consumed all my love, attention and creativity since spring bank. i can hear the regular goldfinches and sparrows squabbling and chatting on the various feeders and them darn trampolining kids further down that always start off laughing and end crying tooo loudly 10 mins later | ||||