Anyone know the best ones that you could sleep with?

I have an owl living in a tree across the street; right opposite to my hut. It talks really loud after 2am-ish and trembles its baby-like voice on a really high pitch for hours! It's doing my head in.

I've tried foam ones, they're rubbish because they slip out of my ears. My neighbour has given me a pair, which is like a headphone with micro foams attached to it. That's more effective but whenever you hit the circular plastic bit, it sounds pretty harsh to my ears like a stethoscope is being tapped. Very disturbing (worse than the owl song) and disappointing.

Anyone knows a good set of ear defenders that could help?

Many thanks in advance.

 

These seem to be getting plugged a lot, no idea how good they are.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/i...your-ears--4#/

 

Wow, they seem superb! Great trouble shooting recommendation, TT! I don't think I'll buy the gold-plated ones , but would give a try to 25-27 quiddo titanium ones. Honestly, thank you so much!

P.S.: The look of these has brought back some memories of those neon lights that people used to tart their Subarus with.

 

Did you hear about the peacock that was terrorising the neighbourhood with its early morning noise?
That vanished and the conspiracy theories......

 

Are you sure you've been scrunching up the foam ones and pushing them far enough inside your ear? It's a myth that they can get permanently stuck in there, you know

 

Bustamoves, my claim is evidence-based. This owl isn't a figment of my imagination, it does exist. In fact, I didn't know that it was an owl. To begin with, I thought it were some nocturnal little stray cats; lamenting outside to get my cats' attention. But after a few days, I focused on that weird sound as well as studied my own cats' reaction to those weird sounds. I concluded that it was definitely no cat, and my own cats didn't even flinch at that constant, utterly disturbing, high and low pitched, baby-like but Shakira style trembling sound. They would have, if the perpetrator was a cat or a few cats singing a chorus. I was determined to solve the mystery, so, I rang up my neighbour one evening after work, to ask if she knew who it is that makes this strange sound to break my sleep every bleddy night! She beat about the bush for a long time but eventually got her head around to the fact that she knew via other neighbours who knew that an owl has made the tree right opposite to my place its permanent residence. Not that I personally haven't ever seen some owls fluttering around my residence, of course I've seen many of them around here. but I didn't know that this out-of-tune musical one has started to live permanently opposite to me, now.



Of course, I've tried my utmost by scrunching and pushing the foam ones deep inside my little ears, Mark. Fact is they're simply shyte. I reckon my neighbour had very cheap ones that she gave to me. I mean, she actually donated to me about 6 packs of foam ones and 2 packs of headphone style ones. They must have been dirt cheap. She's very kind, I know, but it doesn't change the poor quality of those ear plugs and headphone thingies. I don't know where she got them from. The headphones ones are too snug to my head, they seem to fit children's heads, so they could have belonged to her 7 YO granddaughter's; for false clay pigeon shooting game or something.

 

I wasn't saying you were imagined it lol.
The peacock http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-a7343821.html

 

Oh, right! Sorry I thought you took me as some airy fairy conspiracy theorist, with my owl claim.

I'm very sorry to know about that Yorkshire peacock's demise. Peacock is the most beautiful and most endearing bird! I can imagine why the villagers are after the blood of its killer.

 

Try 3m ones. they are the best IMO. I get mine from Amazon.

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/ear-defende...enders%20music




Just hope it rains coz then owls are too wet to whoo ......


(sorry)

 

Well you already have a cat.All you need is a pea-green boat and,voila, problem solved!

 

Enlightening vid. Amazing how right technique of rolling the ear plug would ensure right performance of this item. I was not doing it right. I was literally shoving them in my ears and then pushing them in with my might and main, or rolling them into a little ball, in order to fit my ears. Thank you.


Helpful link, David. The thing with these things is that they all look effective in the pics and boast about their performance, but the factual performance is best described by the users. That's why I asked the crowd here. I guess some people here might be working in noisy environments, where their H&S policy might highly recommend the use of such, so it's worth asking SN people's personal experience based feedback on such item.

The headphones sort are impractical to sleep with.


Absolute quality!

I'm not giving them my new plastic fiver to wrap their cash they elope with, though Mind you, the waterproof plastic fiver would prevent thei cash from getting all soggy, in case they drop it in water while sailing away. I may just act helpful for a change, and lend it to them. I'll have a think.

 

Female foxes screech sounds quite lot like this .. Not to mention errant moggies

Maybe make friends with the owl - throw him dead mouse ??

 

What a hoot!

 

Well we do have vixens and foxes, living in the village centre compound. But my neighbour and I ruled it out. We think that the perpetrator in this case is that owl.

I'd like to strike a friendship with this owl or any owl. I saw a stout one in Thirsk, who looked quite like my B&W fat cute cat. I would have gladly brought it home. However, I still won't like any owl singing its horrid song in the middle of the night and keeping me awake.

 

How have we managed to get this far without someone suggesting one of these?



The internet does disappoint me sometimes

 

My other half uses wax earplugs,

Someone snores apparantly ?? i cant comment cos I've never heard them

you get them from superdrug or boots

I had a custom pair made for when i do clay's, but you can get a mould your own set

of the bay for about £15

Failing that, some Bose QC35's silence and audio whenever you want

Mart

 

Oye! Suggesting any cruelty towards the owls isn't allowed on this thread!


Oh, cool. I may check our local Boots.

 

But it's not cruel, it's a 20mm anti tank rifle. The owl won't even know what hit it

 

I'm not so sure. But say if you did total the owl in your suggested way, then the next life, the owl will potentially take revenge on your reincarnated owl-self. It, as a reincarnated human, will do so by shooting you down with the same bleddy gun! Therefore, this idea is not a good one tbh.

 

I don't know why but the way my mind read that post ended up with an owl behind the barrel of a bloody great rifle, looked hysterical

 

You must not be inserting them correctly. I have used them for years and once used correctly, they are fine.

Try rolling it between your fingers before inserting it

 

Yes, Dblock's video suggests this as well, BoozyDave. I'll try that tonight.

 

I think owl is very underestimated for such a majestic looking creature. I find their no-neck turning ability fascinating! In India, owl is labelled as an ultra creepy, super foolish creature, with a reputation of a baby kidnapper, whose voice it mimicks. I don't believe that the British owls are as dysfunctional and criminal-minded. Instead, they're taken as fairly sophisticated and clever birds. Singing wise, they're as crap as the Indian ones, though.

 

Said the actress to the bishop!

 

 

 

Bet the internet hasn't been this awesome in a while