5 Mar 2025

Moment of Calm: Country road with crickets

From Three to Seven, 5:30 pm on 5 March 2025
Semi rural road at dusk.

Semi rural road at dusk. Photo: Bryan Crump

This week's Moment of Calm is a familiar night time sound over the summer, crickets.

However, with this Summer getting off to a slow start (remember all the southerly stuff in January?) RNZ Concert host Bryan Crump had to venture quite a long way north to find some.

Female Fall Field Cricket (Gryllus pennsylvanicus) in La Pêche, Québec, Canada.

Always good for a night serenade. Photo: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA)

These crickets were chirping in a Hawkes Bay paddock at little ways out from Napier. There's a few houses and a country road nearby. Along with our singing insects, you can also hear a dog barking and a car rushing by.

But the crickets, they just keep on chirping.