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Pretty Coop

Leave a comment Posted by on April 12, 2016
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The idea of hearing nature in the cramped quarter

Hanoi’s soundtrack is the beep beep (and vroom vroom) of the motorcycles though in the background one can often hear bird calls. As one looks up expecting to see urban birds on trees like those magpies in Korea, there are none. Instead, there are attractive ornamental wooden birdcages housing pretty countryside birds (too pretty to be city dwellers) hanging in front of shops or at the balcony of thin buildings everywhere.

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Let me guess the number one pet in Hanoi

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Crop Sentinel

Leave a comment Posted by on June 20, 2014

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Late in the afternoon, this Ifugao farmer is just standing there on the paddy dike to protect the rice crop from birds. How about scarecrow? I asked. It doesn’t work, he answered without elaborating.

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