Periodic cicadas may be part of the explanation? What species have you got
making so much noise, Carol? On Tamborine Mt in southern Qld., the Razor
Grinders (Henicopsaltria eydouxii) would appear in dozens per tree trunk and
the noise was too painful to remain among them, but this happened only every
so many years - every seven years I think.
Syd
> From: Carol Probets <>
> Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 21:53:59 +1100
> To: Peter Adderley <>,
> Subject: Re: [BIRDING-AUS] cicadas
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> Peter,
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> Here in the Blue Mountains things have been very different - we're having a
> big cicada season and they started earlier than usual (it was early
> October). I'm a bit puzzled as to why this is, given that conditions are
> dry here as well. In some places they are so loud it makes birding almost
> impossible, and I'm surprised to hear that other areas have had none.
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> Cheers
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> Carol
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> At 7:07 PM +1100 8/11/02, Peter Adderley wrote:
>> Not having heard any cicadas to date prompted me to write to Max Moulds
>> from the Australian Musuem.
>> Would be interesting to hear how it goes in other parts of the east
>> coast of the continent,
>> cicadas being a fairly important supplement to our birds' menu.
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