Music of Nature

I don't know if anyone pays any attention to the layout, images or links on the this blog, but I actually take the time to change/update things every so often. Today's update is a link to Songs of Insects. You all know my passion for birds; I am only a bit less interested in insects, and was delighted to trip across this site today. I have my own cicada recordings, but to hear a clear difference between the cyclical 17-year cicada and the annual and familiar Scissor-grinder cicada was a good find, imho. Our local pod is hatching now, though we don't have any noise here. I'm up for a drive down the Cape to hear some cicada singing before it's all over. We are in a light area for Pod 14. When I lived in PA, our local pod was the largest, Pod X, and they were so loud in my backyard that I could not hear the tractor I was sitting on over the din of their singing. It was spectacular!



Key Dear and Mr. Bill are working at a new place these days, the 7-Mile Marina (and they actually get paid!!). The marina has a viewer-controlled webcam, so when Key Dear called me this afternoon, I was able to swing the webcam around (after much frustrating finagling) and get a quick shot of her on the balcony. How cool is that?!?