Feller Expedition Finale

I apologize for the long delay in getting this final entry posted from last night.

En route to Cunningham Park, driving at 50 mph along Horace Harding Boulevard (the service road for the Long Island Expressway), Mike heard a loud buzzing coming from a six-foot-wide strip of unmowed turf grass and weeds between the service road and the gabion* wall above the LIE. Mike could hear the high-pitched buzzing right through the low rumble of tractor trailer tires and the whine of passenger car engines. Sounds to me like a Neoconocephalus cone-headed katydid, or maybe Orchelimum vulgare, but I'll have to follow up with Mike to see if we can get a certain ID.

At 57th Avenue and Cloverdale Blvd, Mike stopped to listen to chorusing snowy tree crickets and a greater angle-wing.

At Cunningham Park, Mike picked up his most diverse chorus: lesser angle-wing, greater angle-wing, fork-tailed bush katydid, jumping bush cricket, and true katydid.

Forest Park yielded true katydid, field cricket, and greater angle-wing.

Then, Bronx ambitions stymied by impending illness, the Feller Expedition (i.e., Mike) called it a night, headed home, and fell asleep with the windows thrown open, drifting off to a snowy tree cricket lullaby...

*a type of retaining wall consisting of rocks enclosed in woven mesh (I include this definition because I had to look it up when I read Mike's e-mail, but maybe my knowledge of civil engineering is just not up to speed)