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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