Suburban Crickets

The captivating clicks of the countryside cricket are a perfect way to pass they day away, or even to find a quiet stillness that will send you to your slumber. Join these harmless little insects sitting high on the grass or snuggling up to the side of your shoe from where they sing their sweet nature's song, The folklore and mythology surrounding crickets is extensive. The singing of crickets in the folklore of Brazil and elsewhere is sometimes taken to be a sign of impending rain, or of a financial windfall. In Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca's chronicles of the Spanish conquest of the Americas, the sudden chirping of a cricket heralded the sighting of land for his crew, just as their water supply had run out. This sound uses the following file from Freesound: http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=96034