Thursday, September 29, 2011

Goodbye, cicadas; see you next year!

I had never heard or seen a cicada (other than on TV) until I came to Japan. For many people here, hearing their noise above in the trees is part of the experience of summer. But summer is finishing, and so are the cicadas. I expect that I'll only hear them for a few more days. The evenings now are filled with the sound of crickets chirping.



The video I'm including was taken just a few minutes walk from our apartment. There's a neighborhood where several older houses have large plots of land with many trees. In the clip you can hear the cicadas, a couple of crows, and a dove.
(Video is offline right now...)

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