Spring

Fledgling Formosan Whistling-Thrush 紫嘯鶇 rescue in New Garden City 花園新城, 4/23

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Formosan Whistling Thrush
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紫嘯鶇
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back in the yard
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The young bird had fallen out of our yard and was being stalked by cats in the street below. Back in the yard, near its nest, the parents continued caring for it.

Walk above New Garden City 花園新城, 4/30

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mossy rock
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mushroom
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mushroom
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Spider
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fern understory
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mushroom
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mushroom
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Spider Flower 醉蝶花 Cleome spinosa
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Tung tree flowering
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Tung tree flower
油桐
Vernicia fordii
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Geese and chickens at the chicken restaurant
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Taiwan Acacia preparing to flower
相思樹
Acacia confusa
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Clitocybe nebularis 水粉杯傘 Girl Scout Camp wall
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On the way to Dan's for Frisbee and pool, 5/1

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on the bus
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Xindian
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at Dan's

5/5

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Formosan Jewelwing
白痣珈蟌
Matrona cyanoptera
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Lanxi 蘭溪 bridge
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Jimson Weed
曼陀羅
Datura suaveolens
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Mycalesis francisca
小蛇目蝶
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Painted Lady
姬紅蛺蝶
Vanessa cardui

5/6, with Dan

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view from farms above temple
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mushroom
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guava flower
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Common Mapwing
石牆蝶
Cyrestis thyodamas
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trophy house
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serpent eagle drying out
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flowering pineapple

We talk to a Taipei resident with a weekend plot here who gives us some yam tops.

5/9

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Yellow Parasol
純黃白鬼傘
Leucocoprinus birnbaumii
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intercropping potatoes and corn
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Exploratory trip with Dan and Steffani to look for kiyak testing runs on the Beishixi 北勢溪 just north of Pinglin 坪林, very early on a Thursday morning, 5/11. The expressway through the Xueshan mountains 雪山 should be open next month. Four thousand cars per day are allowed to get off at the Pinglin interchange.

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The Beishixi 北勢溪
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Short morning walk with Dan, Tammy, Yoyo, Noah and Neo to Honghegu 紅河谷

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White-tipped Grappletail 曲尾春蜓 Heliogomphus retroflexus
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曲腹曦箭蜓
尖板曦箭蜓
Heliogomphus retroflexus
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變異渦蛛
Octonoba varians
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Walk above New Garden City 花園新城 with Tammy, 5/21

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