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Longshanks:
I suppose not everybody has a plot where all they can hear is the chirping of birds and spades slicing through earth.

Here in east London, I have the pleasure of our wonderful London Underground, which ironically I have to look up at, and also the big boys trains on the C2C line. I have yet to witness trains on all four lines (eastbound and westbound) go by together, but it's been close. They never seem as frequent when I wait at the station for them! The exciting bit is waiting for the 12:30 freight train.

When it is really quiet on the plot, there's the distant humming of the A13, but that's usually drowned out by ambulances screaming up the local road to their emergency or on the way back to the nearby hospital. Just across that said road is the council's depot, where it always sounds like a lorry is reversing as there's constant beeping. Then there's occasionally the local idiots on their mopeds over the nearby recreation ground. I hardly notice the children screaming in the nearby housing estate, the planes out of City Airport or the men digging up the road.

I've just got a nice pair of headphones that will link via bluetooth to my phone, so that I can play a sounds of nature soundtrack.

Happy days

mumofstig:
I don't hear a lot of road noise, as I live on a footpath without direct road access. However the allotments and my garden back on to the Ashford to Canterbury railway line, one each way every 30 minutes.
I'm so used to it, that I hardly notice it any more, except when we get a lovely steam train - ch ch, ch ch, ch ch, woo hoo, woo hoo! I'm like a child again waving to the driver  :D

It doesn't seem to bother the wildlife at all, so plenty of birdsong and foxes and squirrels in the garden  :)

snowdrops:
I can often hear noises from the small industrial estate that backs on the site, dogs barking, a child crying & screaming & her mother screaming at her louder. A few overhead noises, birds,aeroplanes.

grinling:
When I had an allotment in Harlow I could hear traffic and low commercial airplanes.
After moving house and gaining large gardens I get bird song, tractor if working and Typhoons. Much improved.

greenjay:
I'm one of the lucky ones wind in the trees, birds chirping.
the dog barking at the chickens.
sheep bleating, cows bawling.
the odd car going up the far road.

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