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Re: What's That Sound? - One for Walt

Subject: Re: What's That Sound? - One for Walt
From: Marty Michener <>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 11:41:44 -0400
This one's gotta be one of the true Katydids -  maybe Arthropoda, Insecta,=

Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae, Pseudophyllinae, Pseudophylla camellifolia.

my best regards,
Marty Michener
MIST Software Associates PO Box 269, Hollis, NH 03049

EnjoyBirds.com  - Software that migrates with you.    http://www.EnjoyBirds=
.com
At 08:28 AM 8/19/2003 -0700, you wrote:

>Here's an inquiry I received on August 17th. If you have any ideas, please
>reply to the list and I'll respond to the person who inquired.
>
>Doug
>
> ><>
> >
> >Hi,
> >Every night I walk my dog at 11:00 pm and hear this.
> >The location is a neighborhood suburb in Lawrence Massachusetts, USA.
> >The time is late August,  and I'm three blocks from a river (the
> >Merrimac River) that runs in 30 miles to the Atlantic.
> >   There are long steep treed banks going down to the river.
> >The sound is in the same place every night, maybe in an adjacent tree
> >behind the same house.
> >Lots of old tall maples in the area, some birches, maybe some pine.
> >The sound is similar to the chirping of an angry squirrell but without
> >the urgency or the high pitch.  (A little froggy  maybe, but rough
> >sounding.)
> >Also it's in serials of threes and twos usually, sometimes a one, and
> >is constantly repeating with no quiet periods.
> >It's about 150 feet from where I walk and is quite audible.
> >I've looked up a bunch of nocturnal bird sites and can't find any
> >informations except about robins and nightingales and it didn't
> >occur to me that it might be an owl because I thought they all 'hoo'ed.
> >Your site says if 'it's driving you crazy'...and it is.  You probably
> >knew after you read the first couple of lines what it is.
> >I've lived in this location my whole life (fifty three years) and never
> >heard  this before.  It's loud enough that I can imagine
> >   the owners of the house nearby can't sleep if they leave open windows=
.
> >So?  What is it?
> >Thanks much,   Deb Silke     > <
> >
> >
>
>Doug Von Gausig
>Clarkdale, Arizona, USA
>Moderator
>Nature Recordists e-mail group
>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/naturerecordists

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