We're currently looking to get hold of chickens - this is ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
korpikuusi's project, really - and I keep thinking I hear chickens already. There's a name for the effect whereby, when everything is quieter, single sounds seem louder, but damned if I can find it right now. However, in the last few weeks, as there was less traffic, and more people home, things like lawnmowers, backyard conversations, barking dogs, and the like have become much more evident. Most of these I can tune out, like I tune out the usually constant house and car alarms around here - although they've been gone for the last couple of months too; people are home to turn them off. But for some reason, bird sounds - pigeons, blackbirds, thrushes, magpies - make it through the filters, as do the apparently, as yet, imaginary chickens.
korpikuusi's project, really - and I keep thinking I hear chickens already. There's a name for the effect whereby, when everything is quieter, single sounds seem louder, but damned if I can find it right now. However, in the last few weeks, as there was less traffic, and more people home, things like lawnmowers, backyard conversations, barking dogs, and the like have become much more evident. Most of these I can tune out, like I tune out the usually constant house and car alarms around here - although they've been gone for the last couple of months too; people are home to turn them off. But for some reason, bird sounds - pigeons, blackbirds, thrushes, magpies - make it through the filters, as do the apparently, as yet, imaginary chickens.