Those sounds which evoke feelings as you are waking up.

As a child, staying at my grandma's house, waking up mid morning, to pigeons cooing in the trees by my window, and starlings and sparrows chirping off in the background, in a warm comfy bed, with breakfast moments away.

As, or since a teenager, the sound of Hooded Plovers (a bird) protesting on takeoff in the morning reminds me of pre-dawn mist hanging and wafting on the glassy rivers, with ducks and swans gliding silently along making the first marks on the water.


Not favourite: the garbage truck clanging and driving off as I wake up, and remember I was going to put the full garbage bin out.

The bin truck? I was terrified of it when I was a kid. Same with the hoover. But we have a small river at the back of the house. Such a serene sound to hear the water flow

I often wake to the sound of ducks squabbling on the River Irwell, which has its source not far from here.

Hi how are you doing ?

Sizzling bacon and the aroma of fresh coffee brewing..

Ducks ,gulls ,blackbirds, thrush and other small birds ,I live on a leisure park close to a small river

Crickets at night.

Wind blowing through the trees, especially in the summer, with the windows open.

Sound of waves crashing unto the beach, sound of a rainstorm on a chilly fall day, the sound of car tires crunching through a snowy, icy road while I am sitting by the woodstove thankful I'm not driving in that

NOT the garbage men at 5am!

That's better than drunken eejits, coming home from a party

Definitely not the sound of the helicopter circling above my house at 6am..

Ugh!

told you to turn that red light off when you go to bed

Was only the friendly occupation forces

trying to find out how much a happy ending cost

Trying to find something as they were ransacking a couple of houses down the street..

i use to love falling asleep to the tree frogs at camp when i was a kid

Was there no taktaktak ... zoooooof ... kabooom ... to be heard?

I like to hear the crickets at night.