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Last updated 09/05/2012

Sound library now live!

Listen to the squeals, squeaks, sniffles, snuffles, whirrs, slurps, drones, creaks, crackles, bleating and baaing. The sounds of the countryside are available to listen to now or for free download.

Last updated 26/01/2012

Shaun the Sheep is here!

 

Discover the sounds and smells of the farm with Shaun in some baa-rilliant clips

Last updated 23/05/2011

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Weird, wacky and wonderful: nature, food and farming sounds

ANIMATE IT! nature competition logo.

Get creative using our coutryside sounds and enter our animation competition to be in with a chance of winning some great prizes!

Click on the links and listen to our collection of recordings: grunts, squeals, baas, creaks, whines, rustles. Recorded especially for 'Let Nature Feed Your Senses', they are free to download. For individual files just right click on the link and 'save target as'. For downloading the files in zipped batches please click on these file titles: Farm animals_general [4.3meg], Farm animals_pigs and piglets [4.2meg], Wild plants and animals on farms [3.8meg], Farm machinery [5.8meg], Farmers at work [6.5meg].  

Plants & Animals

 

Farmers

Jo North watching a cow.

 

Machinery

An old worn metal wheel.

Excited pigs being given hazel branches and they search for the crunchy nuts to eat. [0.39]


Ram drinking quietly joined by ram who drinks noisily [0.49]


Calf drinking bucket of milk. [0.23]


Thirsty pig has a nice drink of water. [0.14]


Busy wild bees buzzing outside nest in farmhouse wall. [0.27]


Busy wild bees outside their nest in a tree. [0.20]


Buzzy call of a tiny grasshopper on a sunny day. [0.25]


40 sheep running past on a farm track. [0.10]


160 sheep cross shallow river with farmer and dogs. [0.48]


Two pigs enjoying eating apples. [0.33]


Teenage cow's moo. [0.02]


Grandpa sheep - the old ram -calls. [0.02]


Pigs excited to hear their food coming. [0.07]


Thirsty teenage pigs suck water from a tank and get out of breath. [0.37]


One shy and two confident pigs chat as they investigate something new. [0.33]


Huge black sow being moved into trailer and 3 piglets don't keep up. [0.38]


Two three-day old pigs venture out of their home to explore. [0.25]


Sniffing pig. [0.15]


Ten two-day old piglets suck at their huge mother and she grunts to encourage them. [0.40]


Three chickens chat to each other as they forage for food. [0.20]


Sheep walking up into livestock trailer and tailgate shut behind them. [0.25]


Baa  [0.01]


Summer birdsong at field edge with trees not far away. [0.28]


Hooves of two horses being taken across yard to field on wintry day. [0.28]


Sheep hurriedly nibble up pellets of food from a metal trough. [0.25]


Cows in conversation. [0.47]


15 hungry orphan lambs excited to be fed. [0.28]


 20,000 chicks going cheep. [ 0:13]


 A cow pees. [0:14 ] 


Single chick cheeps out from the crowd. [0:06 ]


The sniff of a one tonne bull. [0:07 ]


Thirsty sheepdog drinks water after working. [0:17 ]


Gusts of wind blow through branches of 300 year old oak. [1:06 ] 


Two branches of oak tree rub together in the winter wind. [0:21 ]


Wind blows through dry rushes at pond on field edge. [1:00 ]


 

  

 

 

Tipping grain into metal dish to be eaten by hungry chickens on cold day. [0.34]


Farmer tips sheep food from plastic sack into metal trough. [0.26]


Mixing up milk for calf. [0.22]


Pouring grain from a plastic sack. [0.11]


Farmer's footsteps crunching thru snow in field. [0.32]


Wellington boots squelching in mud. [0.17]


Vocabulary when working with sheepdog Belle. [1.10]


Kicking hole in thick ice on water trough. [0.05]


Farmer tips feed onto grass and hungry rams gobble it up. [1.08]


Lifting latch on gate. [0.03]


Hand milking into a bucket. [0.37]


Sliding a metal barn door open. [0.07]


Paddling boat across river. [0.15]


Excited sheep as farmer takes bag of feed to their field. [0.28]


Opening two bolts on stable door. [0.05]    





 

 

 

 

Tractor - old (Allis Chalmers Model U) to hear start, exhaust pipe, then stops. [0.42]


Middle-aged tractor starts, moves and stops. [0.17]


Rhythmn of a seed cleaner. [0.22]


Electric-powered sheep shears. [0.2]


Big tractor starts, engages grass mower and drives off. [0.49]


September day in the countryside. [1.03]


Tractor - new - John Deere - starts up, runs and stops. [0.20]


ATV (quad bike) revs and moves and stops. [0.16]


Forklift starts up, reverses and then stops. [0:29 ]


JCB with pusher on front reverses then lines up to push sugar beet up into nice heap - three times. [1:02 ]


Lorry loaded with tonnes of sugar beet tips up trailer so all the beet tumble out. [0:40 ]


 

 

       
 Recorded by Susie Emmett, Green Shoots Productions