You Think YOUR Neighbors Are Loud? Meet Mine!
Life in the country brings its own delights. My farm wraps around a cove on the quiet north end of Georgia's Lake Oconee. This week, my otherwise brave dogs are staying very close to the house because a papa duck is guarding mama duck and the young un's lakeside. I encountered another watchful papa duck a couple of weeks back - he stood like a sentinal while I bush hogged a lakeside field - but not TOO close to his family nest. My neighbors rooster has started roaming again, and he's likely to greet me as I leave for work. This is one of the ducks on patrol in my cove at daybreak!
One of the benefits we were looking forward to in moving outside the city was quiet…blessed peace and quiet.
Oh, sure, you would be surprised at how used to noise you become when you’re living between the Metro and the Highway…but if you crave privacy and quiet, you do envision living in a perfectly quiet environment, surrounded by green grass, trees and nature.
Except – “nature is loud” – as one of my clients exclaimed a year or so ago when we were looking for her new Stafford County home. This was her response after a rooster crowed in the neighbor’s backyard, taking her quite by surprise. As an owner of a very proud – and loud – rooster, I can attest to just how loud they can be.
Indeed, yes, Nature is loud. As I sat on my front porch earlier this week, I could hardly concentrate on reading my incoming email for the sounds of nature.
A pair of nesting geese (Fred and Ginger), who are hovering over a nest and 7 eggs, were most unhappy with the new interlopers that had arrived the day before…3 very new goslings and their parents…although our lake is big enough for both families. Anyway, they were miffed and showed it.
And everyone knows just how loud geese can be, particularly when defending their territory and their families.
Three eagles were perched on branches just above my head, just chattering away, and quite loudly. If you have never heard the chatter of a Bald Eagle, check out their calls on the Cornell Lab of Ornithology website. While I find it almost like a “chirp” (like a loud cardinal, really) and not the soiund I expected from a Bald Eagle, make no mistake, it is LOUD.
This afternoon, as I was walking around the lake, I startled two Great Blue Herons, who came flying out of the trees, just squawking. Until we had Herons for neighbors I had no idea how much noise they make…it took us a while to understand all their different calls and squawks.
So, while I wouldn’t trade all my wildlife for traffic noise, the fantasy of a perfectly quiet life has gone by the wayside. Nature is, indeed, loud.
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