We lived in an apartment for years, second floor thankfully. It was right next to a street that serviced an Ocean Spray plant and lead into town. Next to the street was a railroad track that also, among other things, serviced that same Ocean Spray plant and they seemed to love to time their trips to about an hour after we got to sleep, three times a week. Now we're "out in the woods". The first few nights we both had trouble adjusting to the almost dead quiet. Yeah, there's still some highway sound from about a half mile away so it's fairly muted unless there's an itiot with a "Jake brake" stopping for the light, but other than nature sounds, there sure isn't much. We're about 10 miles from joint base MDL, McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, and if it's really quiet at night and the wind is in the right direction and they're doing night practice with automatic weapons we can hear the .50 and .30 (I know they're 5.56mm, just old fashioned) cal machine guns. Needless to say we can "hear", more like feel, the 105's when they use them, but that's very infrequent, too expensive I guess. Same is true during the day when a "heavy" takes off from McGuire. In a way, those aren't really bad sounds, they're sounds of security to me and those conditions don't happen very often at all. The thiing that really bugs me is the motorcycles with open pipes at two in the morning. I understand the "loud pipes save lives" idea, but what gives them the right to blast down a residential street and disturb the peace at 2AM? Want to feel the wind in your face, go sit at the end of a runway when a jet takes off!
I liked the birdies in the forest one though...
