early birds and squeaky worms

[ysabet]

G'morning... **yawn** Here I sit at 6:somethingorother a.m., crosslegged on my bed in my ratty nightclothes and doing my peronal version of reading the newspaper, i.e., surfing the net while my cat Bob whines at the birdies through the window beside me.  I live in an apartment complex; the sounds that filter in are the usual ones I hear when I wake

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Morning Sounds

[raventhourne]

The electric tooth brush

Cactus Wrens

Butterfly trying to break down the bathroom door and whining to get fed.

The coffee grinder

The fridge being rummaged through.

Re: Morning Sounds

[ysabet]

I love cactus-wrens, they're kind of the Evil Biker Bad-Asses of the desert, aren't they?

[tragic_elegance]

My morning sound is the alarm clock... and then the alarm clock again... and then it again. I have trouble waking up the first time. ^_^; In the spring and late summer here at school we're usually woken up Monday mornings by the lovely sound of big machines cutting the grass. But hopefully you hear birds, too.

[ysabet]

Oh, well... **grin** the FIRST thing I usually hear is either my ferrets racketing around in their room or the alarm clock, which is supposed to play music but instead kind of does this syncopated static thing, because said ferrets keep knocking it off my dresser and trying to drag it away. So much for keeping a station tuned. **pictures house!weasles tuning in to Radio Moscow**

[snotblossom]

I hear birds and traffic sounds. There are ZILLIONS of birds around here. The people on the other cul de sac behind us apparently have some sort of aviary as well as just a bunch of different kinds of birds that seem to live right here. There's one who makes a noise just like the beep my phone makes when I have a missed call.

[ysabet]

Bet that's a mockingbird; they mimic phones and other beeping things all the time. I was getting into an exterior elevator at UMC a while back, which went 'DING!' when it opened to the outside, and one perched on an ornamental shrub went 'Diiiiing!' right back at it; I laughed 'til I thought I was going to have to change pants.

[ytak]

Morning sounds:
-Garage door opening (I'm right above the garage but I sleep through that half the time)
-People peeing in the bathroom and running water (bathroom on the other side of the wall from my bed)
-TV tuned to Weather channel
-Parents talking to little brother and vis versa.
-Dryer being opened and closed (bedroom also almost sits over the laundry room)
-Cabinets being opened and closet
-Chest of drawers being opened and closed (I hate that thing)
-Alarm clock (which currently sounds like a coocoo clock)

[ysabet]

Houseful of people, huh? Sounds like what I lived with for many years too.

[ytak]

My parents and littel brother. Sometimes my other brother and his best friend (whom we've practically adopted). Mostly, it's that everyone gets up before I do.

I can't wait for a place of my own. But I will have to see what the neighbors are like.

[ysabet]

If you can get a one-story apartment, go for it-- I've lived in both one and multi-story places, and with a one-story place you never have to worry about the person above you having a 3 a.m. party on a Wednesday or what to do when their kitchen sink overflows (floods show up in your ceiling and short out your electricity; not fun.)

[werewolfling]

I'm just finishing up my first winter out in the woods of nowhere Ohio, I'm really glad for spring. I don't have a true morning though, I live odd hours. The roads here are far away, and while we can see the interstate from across the cornfields (ah, level ground), even I can't hear it (my hearing's about the same as yours, quite good, I always weird people out by commenting on things I can hear that they can't). So the winter was dead at night, stark silent, occasionally broken by a Screech Owl or Great Horned Owl. Screech Owls are darn spooky sounding when you're walking dogs in the middle of the night! Supposedly there's coyotes around here (the neighbors warned us when we started building) but if there are, they didn't form a winter pack, which I'm used to hearing, let alone any solo-yodeling. But with spring here, the peeper frogs are out in force, the night is full of peep peep peep! Daytime, well, it's woods, so we've got so many birds that they can almost drown out the occasional plane that flies over.

[ysabet]

**nods** I hope your sense of placement is better than mine-- somebody'll say something right by me and I'll go "what?" because I can hear the car stereo across the parking-lot too, and they mix and I can't differentiate the sounds well. But oh, I can hear them...

Where I grew up in NW Florida we had these little tiny green frogs we called 'peepers' as well-- wonder if they're the same things? Brilliant lime-green, sort of looked like they were made out of slick plastic? My GODS they were noisy, it was like having thunder made out of PEEPPEEPPEEPLISTENTOMEPEEP!!! XD Owls, now, those I like very much; but yeah, spooky sounding. Ever heard a baby screech owl when the parents are out hunting to feed it? They're amazingly obnoxious, they go off every three or four seconds like little feathery shrieking alarm-clocks.

[werewolfling]

I'm pretty good with directions, yes. Windy days can throw me off, but generally I've got a pretty good success rate. I play at being a tracker a lot, it helps train the mind with it.

With frogs, well, ours aren't usually green, but yes, they're related. They are tree frogs. Most of the ones I find are a moltly grey in color, but I had one that could change between the two. I'm not sure if I have a nesting pair of Screech Owls or just one, I haven't located it's home yet. Usually we hear the trilling "Oooooooooooo", but once the owl was having a standoff with a barn cat in the back yard and man did he shriek!