What's your favorite nature sound?

[mvd]

Ever since XM radio was required to do Emergency Alert System tests on all channels, I go to bed to nature sounds, since I don't want to wake up to any harsh sounds. My favorite is the ocean with seagulls.

[hickman]

1. Lawn mowers.

Takes me back to childhood memories of saturday mornings. The smell of fresh cut grass and lakes is the last thing I want to smell as I go out.

[mvd]

3. Cool choice

One of the nature sounds on my radio is windchimes - also interesting.

[Hotler]

2. I like the sound of rain.

Birds at dawn is good also.

[salin]

5. rain can lull me to sleep.

while I may not like walking through a driving rain - that same rain can help bring sleep (something about the juxtaposition about feeling safe and warm (per not getting wet from that rain) with the sense of the importance and good that comes from rain - can just lull me into a peaceful sleep.)

[barb162]

29. yes, falling asleep listening to the rain is comforting

[wildhorses]

4. wind through the trees and rain falling

also the sound described in my sigline...

[Broken_Hero]

6. I'd go with a dock sounds...

like a boat, riding the currents, while tied to the docks...with seagulls...

[bridgit]

30. yes, dock sounds are cool, i heard a little ship's bell when i read that...

and the sound of water lapping against a boat's hull: wood & fiberglass, "Avast!"

[Broken_Hero]

32. exactly, plus the light clang of the

bouy markers....:)

[NewWaveChick1981]

7. The ocean.

:D

[hippywife]

8. Whippoorwills or owls. n/t

[Blue-Jay]

9. "brap"

[Connonym]

10. Rumbly long thunder

My complaint with nature sounds is that they keep throwing the bird in there and any kind of whistling irritates me. Unfortunately, ConnoKid LOVES to whistle. Argh.

[LostInAnomie]

11. Cats loudly fucking

:evilgrin:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

18. The males have sharp little spines on their members

which is why the females scream.

[LostInAnomie]

22. Well, it puts me to sleep everytime.

:boring:

Or maybe I've just learned to turn it out, since my neighbor seems to have the sluttiest cats in town.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

23. oops...wrong spot!

[MichiganVote]

12. Birds

[Auggie]

13. Yes, birds

[MichiganVote]

14. In the spring, my fav thing is to open the windows just for the sound

[Auggie]

24. It's a nice reminder you share space with living things other than humans

[femmocrat]

15. A babbling brook...

We don't have that, so I love the sound of the swimming pool bubblers.

[LibraLiz1973]

16. Water

A brook, the ocean, rain...

[Omphaloskepsis]

43. Ditto...

Water puts me to sleep.. It also makes me wet the bed. Hey, you can't win them all.

[mzteris]

17. water

like over rocks or small waterfall......

(Of course then I have to get up and go p a lot :rofl: )

[w8liftinglady]

19. not really a nature sound-I have about 20 windchimes in my yard

I LOVE windchimes...

[Deja Q]

20. What was said about cats... but replace the cats with people,

kitty caterwauling does not turn me on...

[Drum]

21. I like

the night ones: crickets and little night-frogs peeping
the water ones: rainstorm, or the waves on the shore.

[Neshanic]

25. The crunch of snow on a calm night. Lawnmowers late summer day, East coast only.

The light in the east is different on late summer days, it's hazy and golden.

[bridgit]

26. an open, out-back meadow in high summertime; the sound of the sunlight...

falling all down & around the scene, the teeming sound of the sun warming my cheeks, bugs & insects buzzing near, other critters either close or far away, the pouring of picnic wine :thumbsup:

[Shine]

27. That's easy. Crickets.

definitely crickets.

I find their chirping incredibly soothing....:)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

28. Peepers and Crickets.

:-)

[marzipanni]

36. Spring peeper choruses sound like many sleigh bells in the distance

Here's a woodcock call with a chorus of peepers.
http://www.learner.org/jnorth/sounds/WoodcockPeepers.wav

A cool website of "one minute vacations" sounds from all over the world recorded and submitted by many people.
http://www.quietamerican.org/vacation_1.html
On the first page of recordings -April 29, 2002- a man recorded the sound of hailstones on the steel roof of a cattle shed at the end of a brief hailstorm, and you can hear peepers from the nearby pond.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

44. Thanks for the links!

:yourock:

[doc03]

31. Crows

[swag]

33. queef

[sundog]

37. fart

[uppityperson]

34. tweety birds and peepers, am very hard of hearing & can't hear them anymore.

I miss chirping little birds

[neweurope]

39. I'm sorry for you.

I'm very hard of hearing, also, but I still hear them a little, anyway. With the hearing aid I hear them all, but then all the other sounds - cars etc.- are very loud, too, so I never wear it.
When I loose my hearing completely the birdsong will be what I miss most.

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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

[HEyHEY]

35. Seal pups being clubbed

[neweurope]

38. Birdsong and the sound of a creek,

or better yet the ocean.


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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

[fizzgig]

40. snow falling

it is so quiet at my dad's that i can hear the snow fall. that sound brings me so much peace

[mvd]

46. Peaceful sound

Agreed completely.

[MnFats]

41. Owls. Great HOrned Owls, to be precise.

there's a stand of trees in back of my place and I can hear their "hoo-HOO-hoo-hoo" at all hours.
i dont' think they nest there; they come to hunt bunnies and field mice, I think.
sometimes there's a 'call and response' between two of them.
they're either hooting about getting together or one telling the other the hunting grounds are claimed.

[Rabrrrrrr]

42. The sound of Kirstie Allie's and The Princess' bellies colliding at 50 mph

as they desperately round the mashed potato end of the Country Buffet trying to get the last three scoops of gravy.

[1gobluedem]

45. Rain

Or waves washing up on a beach.

[Midlodemocrat]

47. My sound machine has the sound of the ocean.

I honestly don't know if I could sleep without it anymore.