Topic: windows open, what do you hear?

[Don R]

 Spring is here. I just noticed the background noise, a police siren, the car drier blower at the car wash, a truck on the highway.  A V twin going by, not Harley and a railroad locomotive engine, no horns yet, oops horns now.

[ekpent]

 Red Wing blackbirds which I like.

[Don R]

 I did hear birds later, tomorrow I'll be in the country and still hear trains amongst the cows, frogs, geese, ducks and other birds. 

[markmyodb]

Frogs, they must be breeding, croaking all night for a couple of weeks.

[grcamna2]

Lot's of trafficI(I live right at a busy 4-way intersection) and the next door neighbors having loud conversations 50% of the time in these apartments in Davis,CA.I would like to live out in the country.

[Don R]

 Man, I just heard an engineer start a parked train and that guy banged every coupler down the line. Most of the trains have a pusher engine in back to help with that these days.  The tracks are 4 blocks away but sound like they're in the yard sometimes.
  I've never lived out of hearing distance from trains, we have BN and the former Santa Fe. cross in town. 

[Mr. Mike]

My wife and I sold our home last December, but we’re holding in a rental through June. This rental is in a 55 and over community and I haven’t heard a hammer, saw or any other power tool...ever, in three months. Sitting at the upper Chapel parking lot, the din of the nearby freeway can be faintly heard, and during the days and on occasion early evenings
we get to be entertained by the touch and go- circle around and do it again C-5 Super Galaxy heavy lift transport planes and the roar of those four GE turbofan engines. I swear, sometimes it sounds like they’re going to crash in the backyard it so loud.

[Don R]

 In August we get the national Stearman fly-in I get to hear multiple radial engines in formation. They used to do sunrise formation (dawn patrol)  and get 80+ planes in the air at once.

[Steve F]

I was hearing birds........... not the feathered ones, but F-35's!  Most every weekday starting at 7am and occasionally flying at night too.  Awesome sound of Freedom!  (Luke AFB) 

[34barab]

Some birds in the yard, and the sound of executive jets at an altitude of about 2000 ft; I live under the primary landing path of Teterboro).  About one every two minutes during rush hour.  Could be worse - could be EWR, LGA, or JFK.

[Stev-o]

Windows arent open, the AC is on!  It's friggen hot here, was up to 88 today but a cold front is coming this weekend.

[grcamna2]

I was hearing birds........... not the feathered ones, but F-35's!  Most every weekday starting at 7am and occasionally flying at night too.  Awesome sound of Freedom!  (Luke AFB) 

Do they take-off traditionally or take-off straight-up vertically ?

[Don R]

 There are a pair of P51's based near Chicago and when they are close to our airport they do a low pass for the crew at Jet Air. If I miss it it's almost always on facebook within minutes but I've been known to run all the way around the house to see them.

[markmyodb]

I was hearing birds........... not the feathered ones, but F-35's!  Most every weekday starting at 7am and occasionally flying at night too.  Awesome sound of Freedom!  (Luke AFB) 

I served at Luke in the 1970's.  Was there when the first F15's came to active service. They performed some comparisons with the F4C's I worked on, awesome. On a simultaneous start the F15 would be at 10,000+ FT before the F4 could get its wheels up.

[RAFster122s]

Today they have a grader doing spring maintenance on the roadside grading the edges of the roadway, wind and water erosion control. So the diesel going up and down scraing things withthe back up alert beeper frequent. Birds will normally fill theair with gambols quail, doves, and various migratory and desert wrens and other birds filling the air. The sound of ground squirrels standing up and calling to one  another.  At night you will hear dogs barking and coyotes howling and barking frequently. The coyotes will stir up the dogs and they will start others in ear shot.  Sometimes it is the javelina , wild foul smelling desert pig family, stirring up the dogs at night.  I rent two  acres of land with the place I am staying in, so, residences have some elbow room. It is nice having a big yard with virtually zero maintenance being natural desert landscaping.

[Don R]

 I rode with a friend to Pomona a couple years ago and we came back through 29 palms where he lived as a kid and took a lot of 2 lane roads through to Texas. I want to go back with a motorhome and spend some time.

[Bodi]

I hear the guards pacing back and forth outside my cell

[Steve F]

I was hearing birds........... not the feathered ones, but F-35's!  Most every weekday starting at 7am and occasionally flying at night too.  Awesome sound of Freedom!  (Luke AFB) 

Do they take-off traditionally or take-off straight-up vertically ?

traditional, I guess, but all during the day they are circling and doing some high altitude stuff.  Mostly they take to the south-west in the desert where they do most of their training and return for lunch, and take off again and return around 5 or 6 pm.  Always fun to watch!

[andy750]

I hear the guards pacing back and forth outside my cell

This made me laugh thank you!

[70CB750]

Tree frogs

[grcamna2]

I was hearing birds........... not the feathered ones, but F-35's!  Most every weekday starting at 7am and occasionally flying at night too.  Awesome sound of Freedom!  (Luke AFB) 

Do they take-off traditionally or take-off straight-up vertically ?

traditional, I guess, but all during the day they are circling and doing some high altitude stuff.  Mostly they take to the south-west in the desert where they do most of their training and return for lunch, and take off again and return around 5 or 6 pm.  Always fun to watch!

Do those F-35's do hovering maneuvers also ?

[rb550four]

  I have a nice red cardinal and his wife living in a bush by my barn, he is always whistling for her.
50 couples of geese landed on the pond a week ago with an occasional duck, they won't be very noisy until the have little ones.
I can hear cars on the roadway in the distance across the pond , a few come down our road and wave to us when they pass by.
We have chickens and just let them out of their winter digs , so they are busy scratching the leaves from the garden beds looking for bugs to eat. They'll save me some raking and the mower will make those leaves food for the grass.
  When the leaves pop out of the trees it'll be much more quiet .

[Steve F]

I was hearing birds........... not the feathered ones, but F-35's!  Most every weekday starting at 7am and occasionally flying at night too.  Awesome sound of Freedom!  (Luke AFB) 

Do they take-off traditionally or take-off straight-up vertically ?

traditional, I guess, but all during the day they are circling and doing some high altitude stuff.  Mostly they take to the south-west in the desert where they do most of their training and return for lunch, and take off again and return around 5 or 6 pm.  Always fun to watch!

Do those F-35's do hovering maneuvers also ?

Well, being an AFB, I would doubt they have the F-35B version which is for short take off/vertical landing.  I would imagine they're using the F-35A conventional take off an landing.

[Don R]

  We have an air national guard unit in Peoria 45 miles away. I miss the fighter planes they used to fly but do enjoy the Chinook helicopters that touch and go at our airport.  I was flying with a friend in his Luscombe and we waited in the pattern while a big heli came in for a practice landing and take-off.  Pretty impressive.

[Don R]

 BTW, the windows have been closed since I asked.