Or the woodpecker pounding at the soffit just outside my bedroom window, or the foxes shrieking like babies being murdered also just outside my bedroom window!Anyone who thinks living in the country is quiet has never heard hundreds of geese flying overhead. Or dozens of pheasants waking up at sunrise and going to bed at sundown. Or the whistling whoosh of wings as a flock of swans flies by. Or the constant mumbling of ducks in a slough. Or a woodpecker pounding holes in a tree. (They’re even louder when, for who knows why, they decide they need to pound on a metal grain bin.)