If you hear bird sounds around a running stream, it may not be a bird at all...

The Chen's party at the Toucheng farm got up at 5:30 AM to meet with a tour guide from the Farm for 'witnessing' the sun rise at I-Lan on January 20. It was pouring rain; of course, we did not see the sun rise. However, we did learn biology lessons from the tour guide. We were at a stream and heard sounds like birds' singing sounds. The guide told us that the sound was not from birds (It was dark and raining. Birds do not sing on rainy and dark days.) The sound actually came from frogs called the Swinhoe's frogs. They inhabit around the creeks and streams of northern Taiwan. The Mandarin name for the frog is 斯文豪氏赤蛙.

I must thank a lady, Ms.Tsai for the story. Ms. Tsai was on the same train when Meeilei and I were coming back to Banciao from Sui-Hong (瑞芳). She teaches Natural Science at a junior high school at the Taou-Yeun(桃園) county. We had small conversation on the train. When I mentioned about the frog and was not quite sure to pronounce the frog's name, she repeated the name, 斯文豪氏, in Mandarin to us. I got the chance to google-up and did some research on this type of the frog. Attached photo is taken from the website: http://89sky.net/vbb/showthread.php?p=15525.