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Cue the Chorus
In coming weeks, nature s symphony will include Brood X cicadas as they emerge from 17 years underground.
Magicicada septendecim adult male. Photo: Dan Century, Flickr
by J. Morton Galetto, CU Maurice River
Lifecycle of cicada. Compilation by author. Photos: Clockwise, from top, Stephen Little, Peter Myers, CU archive, Cicada Mania, “Amy” – Flickr, CU archive.
One person’s idea of a noisy racket is another’s favorite rock band. By and large I have a real aversion to noise. On the other hand, I’m a sucker for natural phenomena. So when one of nature’s extravaganzas involves noise I try to adjust my mindset and find it awesome versus dreadful. But I’ll admit our subject creature challenges my auditory sensitivities. A few are fine, but a crowd is a 1960s spacecraft hovering. In fact the sound made by these creatures are by magnitude almost two times louder than a vacuum cleaner’s 70 decibels (dB), beating city traffic (80 dB); alarm clocks, hair
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After reading the November 12 column, Ruth Blakney contacted me to let me know she had done a little more research into loon relocation. Ruth lives in Brooklyn, CT but has spent summers in western Maine since she was nine.
Ruth did additional research on the Fall River, MA bird which was relocated from upstate New York and successfully raised a chick with its mate this past summer. After multiple attempts, Ruth connected with Gina Purtell, Director at Allens Pond Wildlife Sanctuary, a property managed by Mass Audubon. Gina shared the horror of getting a call in April of 2003 informing her a Bouchard barge had run aground, ruptured and spilled 98,000 gallons of oil along the southern Massachusetts coast. Gina rushed to the shoreline and, with others, worked to save the thousands of oil-soaked birds struggling to get out of the water. April is a particularly bad time for an oil spill. Southern New England coasts are a gathering place for thousands of mi