On 9/4/2016 11:58 AM, jmcquown wrote:
> On 9/4/2016 11:09 AM, Nancy Young wrote:

>> Just like birds, the smaller they are, the louder! The noise
>> a teeny cricket that can hide anywhere makes is crazy. And
>> they're impossible to find.

> Yep, small birds often have the loudest voice. They are often unseen,
> as well. Chuck Will's Widows and Whipoorwhills. They are teeny tiny
> birds, you have to be a real birder to spot one.

There will be an eardrum piercing call and you'd think there is
a huge bird around and out pops a teeny Carolina wren.

> Next month, when things cool off, there will be an influx of birds that
> are migrating south.
>
> I had crickets occasionally get into my apartment in Cordova. Completely
> silent until you turn off the light... chirrrp. Turn the light on, good
> luck trying to find the damn thing. Unlike Gary, I wasn't going to toss
> the bedroom furniture around just to try to find it. I just went back
> to bed and hoped like hell it would shut up.

They can be hard to ignore. We haven't had the little ones this
year. We seem to get a different kind every year, last year was the
creepy Chinese humpback ones, this year it's the black ones. Just
enough to amuse the cat.

nancy