It just seems to get worse and worse doesn't it, even in rural areas
too.

"Fifteen years ago, Andrew Flintham made a best-selling recording of
the birds which make up the dawn chorus. But like many rock musicians,
he has been driven to distraction making that difficult second album.

Asked to repeat the exercise this year for a new CD of British
birdsong, he was unable to find the peace and quiet needed to make an
unbroken recording of 'nature's alarm clock'.

Mr Flintham, whose Brecklands Dawn Chorus was the biggest-selling
wildlife recording of the 1990s, said: 'The microphone picks up lots
of background noise you can't hear while you're there.

'When you play it back you find a drone of traffic noise from nearby
roads or planes in the distance..."

More:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1055411/Composers-lament-Lost-England...