Ambient Sound
Mar. 20th, 2026 08:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo One of the pleasant things about spending a couple of nights away was stepping out in the morning not to the screeching of herring gulls but to the song of a single blackbird,
Not that I dislike gulls- on the contrary- but it was a nice change.
How do you characterise the blackbird's song? It's like water droplets hitting water, like the chiming of a glass bell, like... well.... like nothing but itself.
When we first moved to the coast (four years ago almost to the day) Ailz said she wasn't sure she could live with the noise the gulls make.
"You'll get used to it," I said.
And she concedes I was right.
It's like living next to a railway line- which both of us have done. After a while you just don't notice the trains going past.
Not that I dislike gulls- on the contrary- but it was a nice change.
How do you characterise the blackbird's song? It's like water droplets hitting water, like the chiming of a glass bell, like... well.... like nothing but itself.
When we first moved to the coast (four years ago almost to the day) Ailz said she wasn't sure she could live with the noise the gulls make.
"You'll get used to it," I said.
And she concedes I was right.
It's like living next to a railway line- which both of us have done. After a while you just don't notice the trains going past.
