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Have you seen any? A FB friend who lives in Springfield VA is complaining about them, but I haven't even seen one yet.

If they come around here, we have a invasion of fbb's * to gobble them up.

*fucking blackbirds - grackles or starlings, I can never tell. But they are loud and have bullied all my beloved sparrows and finches away

Nope; none yet.

Not sure if this will work, the preview isn't working. The vimeo link is: http://player.vimeo.com/video/66688653

Cool video on cicadas.



The latest map I saw shows that we aren't going to get any cicadas here, but if I take a half hour drive, I'll be deep in cicada country.

Gosh, Glatt, that's beautiful.

I'm sorry we aren't getting any of them here. They are very interesting.

Yes, the photography throughout is remarkable.

I learned several things...

* triliums grow in more places than just Oregon !
... (here I thought PDX was so special )

* the eggs are laid up in the tree branches

* the cacophony lasts for just a couple of weeks
... ( in Iowa years ago I could not imagine living with it for very long )

thanks for the video fellas

Apparently a subset of 17-year cicadas come out 4 years early. Four more years 'til the big one, but even this small subset is making a lot of noise in my neighborhood.

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4243/3...42a222e0_z.jpg

Yeah. It's weird.

Lots of them here too. Is this normal? Or is the weird weather confusing them?

I saw an amazing nature show on PBS last night that had very good footage of the cicada life cycle. I always wondered what those tiny little worms the size of a sesame seed ate for 17 years while they were underground to grow into a full sized cicada. Apparently it's tree sap sucked from the roots of the trees they drop out of when they hatch.

Apparently four years early is the most common deviation from 17.

Low quality audio from my window in this video.

We got nothing here in good ol' south central. Thankfully.

Is that bird real?:eyebrow: