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Re:Cicadas are so noisy in South Carolina that residents are... by Loughla on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @08:50PM (#40139176)
I live in a VERY rural part of the US. When I was in college, a friend from NYC came to stay with us for a week in the summer.

He brought a noise machine because he figured it would be too quiet.

He ended up buying ear plugs because the bugs and birds were so loud at night. And he grew to hate whippoorwills.

I enjoyed that quite thoroughly.

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Re:Cicadas are so noisy in South Carolina that residents are... by HeyLaughingBoy on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @09:11PM (#40139298)
I live in a rural area. In summer I typically sleep with the windows open for fresh air at night... then wake up at dawn to close them because the birds are loud as hell.
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Re:Cicadas are so noisy in South Carolina that residents are... by Loughla on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @09:14PM (#40139317)
My parents have a wren that nests outside their bedroom. He has decided that the best way to sing is hanging off the window screen and pointed into the bedroom. It's amazingly loud as the sun comes up.

I feed him because it's also hilarious.

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Re:Cicadas are so noisy in South Carolina that residents are... by SamPatt on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @09:26PM (#40139399)
Owls can be surprisingly loud, and annoyingly persistent.
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Re:Cicadas are so noisy in South Carolina that residents are... by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @12:08AM (#40140461)
I get barred owls around my place and they give me the creeps. Something in my subconscious knows they would eat me if they could
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Re:Cicadas are so noisy in South Carolina that residents are... by mentalpiracy on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @12:31AM (#40140599)
We have a m-f pair of great horned owls that live in the trees behind the house. Wild how loud they get at night as they’re patrolling the neighborhood together.
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Re:Cicadas are so noisy in South Carolina that residents are... by smallerfish on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @10:09PM (#40139671)
Try living in a forest that has howler monkeys. You really can't sleep through it.
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Re:Cicadas are so noisy in South Carolina that residents are... by jraines on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @10:16PM (#40139731)
I grew up in the country & enjoy the sounds mostly. Except the time I was camping and there was a whippoorwill nearby; I was just about crazy by the time the sun came up
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Re:Cicadas are so noisy in South Carolina that residents are... by bluSCALE4 on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @12:00AM (#40140406)
Watch a video of one on YouTube... wtf... it the platypus of birds! What is up with its mouth?!
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Re:Cicadas are so noisy in South Carolina that residents are... by Loughla on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @10:59AM (#40145169)
Nightjars are terrifying.
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Re:Cicadas are so noisy in South Carolina that residents are... by markdown on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @09:49PM (#40139542)
> He brought a noise machine

Is that slang for a radio?

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Re:Cicadas are so noisy in South Carolina that residents are... by SAI_Peregrinus on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @09:55PM (#40139582)
No, a white noise generator. May also generate other sounds, e.g. babbling brooks, rain on a roof, or other similar things.
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Re:Cicadas are so noisy in South Carolina that residents are... by markdown on Friday April 26, 2024 @06:13PM (#40174886)
Oh I see. There are thousands of youtube videos for that.
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