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power in betel nut
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twilight over the water treatment plant
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A Taipei Flora Expo temp green space
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a favorite noodle and sushi/sashim place
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Nutrified seepage
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Waiting for the bus at the bottom of our community
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Drupal conference
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Drupal conference - Jimmy and OS friend
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black-throated laughing thrush 黑喉噪眉 (hēi hóu zào méi) Garrulax chinensis

The black-throated laughing thrush 黑喉噪鶥 (Hēi hóu zào méi) Garrulax chinensis has established populations in the lowlands and forested hills of northern Taiwan where it enjoys mimicking other thrushes, hill partridges, scimitar babblers and serpent eagles.

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moth
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View south along Roosevelt Road from Pristine balcony
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Formosan Blue Magpie 臺灣藍鵲 Urocissa caerulea
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Black Bulbul 紅嘴黑鵯 (hóng zuǐ hēi bēi) Hypsipetes leucocephalus
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Formosan Blue Magpie 臺灣藍鵲 (táiwān lán que) Urocissa caerulea
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office downpour
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writing spider
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Adrian cares for a friend's dog
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...some mantises are able to detect the echolocation sounds produced by bats, and when the frequency begins to increase rapidly, indicating an approaching bat, they will stop flying horizontally and begin a descending spiral toward the safety of the ground...

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Spotted-necked dove 斑頸鳩/珠頸斑鳩 (bān jǐng jiū/zhū jǐng bānjiū) Streptopelia chinensis
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sunset storm
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Joshua
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Taipei taxi
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home peppers
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broken roof leaks
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jump
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landlord's clown entry
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Lucy yawns
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oregano
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101 at sunset
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flowering aloe
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flowering tumeric
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70-80% mature compost
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Oleander Hawk-moth 夾竹桃天蛾 (jiàzhútáo tiāné) Daphnis nerii
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Fairy Lily 玉簾 Zephyranthes candida
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aloe flowers
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olive frog 腹斑蛙 (fù bān wā) Babina adenopleura

The olive frog 腹斑蛙 Babina adenopleura thrives in subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, swamps, freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, rural gardens, heavily degraded former forest, ponds, irrigated land, and canals and ditches.

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Lucy and Dodo
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coffee fruiting
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moth in the figs
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First visit to new HP office in Nangang 南港, 9/29

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YangMingShan from the north turn of the Wenhu line
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Taipei Songshan airport
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HP's new office
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Nick and Taroko Gorge
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Nangang Softare Park Station form Nick's desk
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6th floor - ESS
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server room
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going back home
Keywords: bird, butterfly, dog, flower, frog, insect, moth, mushroom, plant, reptile
People: Joshua, Tammy
Locations: Dadaocheng, 大稻埕, Home, 家, Neihu, 內湖, New Garden City, 花園新城, Pristine, 精粹
Dates: 2010:06:21 - 2010:09:29