People complain about the noise that the crows in our area make. Well … https://movq.de/v/7b8c06eb73/noise.ogg Notice anything?
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Is that a jet flying over? People’s priorities are fucked up.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de @abucci@anthony.buc.ci That’s ridiculous. Sure these people must have a hard time being out in nature. I lately heard several people complain about the allegedly crazy noise of pidgeons. To which I replied that’s nothing compared to crows. Birds can be loud, but any motorcycle or tractor makes a hell more racket than them. Not to speak of playing children screaming like there’s no tomorrow. It’s absurd. I’m lucky, the next commercial airport is a bit away, so only the smaller, way lower flying private propeller planes terrorize us.
@abucci@anthony.buc.ci It is. The general area where I live is not plagued by crows, it’s plaged by airplanes. The sound you’re hearing happens roughly every 2 minutes, 5am thru 11pm, when the wind is right (it often is in summer). They tried to extend this to 24/7 around 15 years ago, but failed, luckily.
Okay, I get it. The crows can be annoying (especially if you don’t like birds – I happen to love them, so I’m biased). They are noisy. But really … compared to all those jets, they’re irrelevant … I guess people simply think they have a better chance at fighting the birds than the planes. :/
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Let’s not forget the leaf blowers. 🥴 Very popular around here.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh yeah, every operator should be hit by lightning and turn into dust the moment they reach for the starter handle!
On our last hike we sat on a public picknick table to eat our waffles with apple sauce. Not even two minutes in, a neighboring restaurant owner (has his own fenced-in outdoor seating) decided that it would be a good time to make some horrendous noise with his leaf blower. Practically nobody else was around. What a fuckwit. Happened the previous times, too. We then aborted our break after five minutes. I will never eat or drink anything at that place, that’s for sure. I’m convinced that he does that to lots of folks who have their own food with them, hence do not stop in at him and there are no paying customers around in his garden.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org That’d be really mean. 😳 Let’s hope there’s another explanation …
Some of the offenders:
@movq@www.uninformativ.de I’m cursed. :-D Oh, you caught them in the act! Very lovely shots. Extremely good quality. :-)
@movq@www.uninformativ.de wow. I’d trade crow sounds for car sounds, or jet sounds, or leaf blower sounds, or lawn mower sounds, or…..100% of the time.
As far as fighting the birds goes, maybe they’re right, but probably it’d be better to re-balance the ecosystem so that crows aren’t so dominant? At least there are things to try. When it comes to reducing how much air travel people use, it takes a terrorist attack or a pandemic to affect it.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @movq@www.uninformativ.de I’ve always liked the sound of crows, and I really really hate the sound of motorized vehicles, so I also find it absurd. I’ve come to think that some people are at some level afraid of nature, and nature sounds remind them of it.
@abucci@anthony.buc.ci Good theory, actually. Gotta think about that a bit.