Here is an unseasonable gift, a little reminder of those hot months not so far behind us: The summer sound of katydids, recorded in the yard of my friend Bill Braine’s home in Cornwall-on-Hudson, upriver about an hour from New York City.
It is always a pleasure to visit Bill and family. Inevitably the conversation turns to the subject I would simply entitle “cool things in nature,” and Bill, possessing a curious and appreciative mind, is always willing to do a little exploring, even if within the confines of his own neighborhood. That evening in August, after dinner and a few drinks, we ambled out to the great outdoors of Bill’s back yard, taking along a recorder and microphone to check out the action. What we found, naturally, was katydids. Listen …
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