Yesterday two teenage boys, one on a bicycle and one on a miniature motor scooter, dropped their bikes at the end of the road and proceeded down the trail that passes near the nests. My own web site tells me that breeding is concluded by July 31.
During the summer I often stopped at this point to listen for the birds. If it happened that one of the parent birds had arrived back at the nest there would be a tremendous clatter, like the clacking of two hundred pairs of chopsticks, amplified, or maybe ten pairs of giant chopsticks made of some very hard wood, and this would last for a good five or ten minutes before subsiding into hoarse groans and the more typical croaks. So the birds can be aurally observed without disruption.
However, yes, July 31 was about the last time I heard this spectacle. Audacle?
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