On Wednesday, September 2, 2015 at 12:54:06 PM UTC-10, tres piedras wrote:
> dsi1 wrote:
> > On 9/2/2015 12:18 PM, tres piedras wrote:
> >> dsi1 wrote:
> >>
> >>>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfish_Prime
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>> Friggin' cool, but also a bit frightening!
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Ever hear of HAARP?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> http://www.gizmag.com/haarp-operations-on-hold/28383/
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> They were doing something similar a couple of years ago.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Mostly, it's some kind of secret plan to utilize microwaves to create
> >>>>> death rays and radio shields and to control the weather. The
> >>>>> government
> >>>>> is also conducting secrets experiments using contrails to control the
> >>>>> weather and test psychotropic drugs on the peoples of CA and WA. It's
> >>>>> all very hazy and mysterious but I think we can all agree that the
> >>>>> government is interested in controlling the weather. The country that
> >>>>> controls the weather controls the world!
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I can not argue the theory, but who controlled Katrina?
> >>>>
> >>>> And what ever happened to the infamous "woodpecker" signals?
> >>>>
> >>>> Eh?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> It's a mysterious world alright. We got something making a big racket
> >>> outside our house. It sounds like a cricket but not like any I've heard
> >>> before. What I see in my mind's eye is a guy about 6" tall operating a
> >>> jack hammer. That thing was going non-stop with cycles of 7 seconds on
> >>> and 3 seconds off. I'll check it out. If I find that little guy, he's
> >>> dead meat!
> >>
> >>
> >> Oh boy, that sounds like:
> >>
> >> http://www.copyrightfreephotos.hq101...s_004.jpg.html
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> or:
> >>
> >> http://birdnote.org/show/downy-woodpeckers
> >>
> >>
> >> ...to me.
> >>
> >> Bad news for sure.
> >>
> >> Better try:
> >>
> >> http://www.birdcontrol1.com/Hawaii_Bird_Control.htm
> >
> > I didn't know we had woodpeckers around here! Cool! I'm pretty sure it's
> > not a bird because that noise just doesn't stop. My guess is that
> > critter is sleeping, or whatever the heck birds do, during the night.
>
> Some of them are surprisingly nocturnal, and this has been full moon
> time which really gets them going.
>
> > The hunt shall be arduous one but I shall bag this beast when the stars
> > are out!
>
>
> I recommend a fine gill net and one of those gazillion lumen Costco
> spotlights.
>
> Happy hunting!

The expedition was more or less a failure. When we reached the site, it was as if the sound was coming from everywhere. I had always suspected that the sound emanated from the dense patch that lay before us but it's impossible to say for sure. We reached a consensus that this "thing" was a large cricket of the most sonically persistent kind. In the end, all we could do was uproot an undesirable weed and take photos of a rather attractive plant for later identification.

Last night the sound was not to be heard. All was quiet. Could it be because we had disturbed the beast's lair? Perhaps it had moved on to escape the coming rains of the monsoon season. Hopefully, we shan't be hearing him for a long while.

This morning - the rains came.