As winter begins, all kinds of migratory birds fly south. Wild ducks began arriving in Taiwan in large numbers in October of last year--incongruously "heralding the spring," if the ancient teaching that "when the river flows warm in spring, the ducks are the first to know" is to be believed.
入冬後，候鳥紛紛南來，野鴨更是從去年十月即開始大批抵台；完全不理會「春江水暖鴨先知」的古訓、安分扮演它別開生面的迎春使者。