July 9th

Today we had a bird watch in the early morning. We saw so many kinds of birds living in the Meifeng Farm, including the Steer’s Liocichla that we saw on the video. The sounds of male and female were different and they just made a beautiful duet. We also saw the White-tailed Robin, whose sound changed when it got nervous. And the Taiwan Sibia’s song sounded like ‘Happy New Year’, while the Taiwan Yuhina got its name for its sound. Along the road, we saw a net catching Taiwan Yuhinas for the science research. But we saw a little White-tailed Robin caught inside the net. And the researcher just took it out and flied it away. Then we saw how the researcher injected a core plate into the Taiwan Yuhina so that they could detect the other birds flying to the nest.

After the breakfast, we went to have a tour in Meifeng Farm. And we saw various kinds of trees, flowers and fruits that I could not count the number. The most impressive one to me might be the fish drunk grass. It was said that it could get fish drunk and make them swim more slowly as they released some chemicals to the water. After the tour, we had a DIY of the wire art and flower pot. It looked quite easy to do that but it turned out hard to make it done smoothly. Finally I made a wired bottle with some lovely decoration on it.

In the afternoon, we had a lecture given by Professor Liu first. Someone told me about him before I came to Meifeng Farm but to be honest, I could hardly understand his English. I only got some information about how he planted some organic vegetables. Then we went to do the Beet harvest and we chose the first two big ones and cut them into pieces with pineapples and apples. Then we were separated into 6 groups. And we chose how many fruits needed to make the mixed juice. I think our team’s juice tasted very good since it was not too sweet and not too sour. Some people even put just one piece of beet and added no yoghurt and that made the juice too sour. Then we went to have a look at the mist forest and lavender garden.

In the evening, we went to have a moth watch and then we watched the star signs in the guide of Senling. She was really an excellent guide that we learnt a lot about star signs and their origins. Tomorrow we’ll leave Meifeng Farm and I think I’ll miss it.