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Index of Subjects At 10:08 PM -0300 on 9/4/06, Jean Timpa wrote: > I just stepped onto my side porch for a breath of evening air >(warmish, still and moist... and immediately heard >not far away the very rapid trilling of what I believe is a toad. >It certainly sounds like what I hear in the spring, but Jim Wolford >tries to tell me that toads don't trill this time of year. >Well, they shouldn't, but some birds sing now, and it is thought by >some naturalists that these things happen, because the light >intensity and duration and temperatures now are about the same as >late spring... > The mysterious creature has a bit of a lower voice and a >very controlled rapid, continuous sound. It is not raspy like a >katydid, either... Any ideas as to what I may be hearing out here? Hello Jean, and Wayne, Check out the toad-like sound of the Black-horned Tree-Cricket (Oecanthus nigricornis), which is heard a lot this time of year, at http://www3.nbnet.nb.ca/maryspt/bugs/tree-cricket.html and http://buzz.ifas.ufl.edu/589a.htm I suspect that these insects may be increasing and spreading in the Maritimes. At least, I first noticed them around my home at Mary's Point, N.B., in 1999. David -- David Christie Mary's Point, Albert Co., New Brunswick, CANADA http://www3.nbnet.nb.ca/maryspt
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