Every year for the last three years, during the spring planting season, ducks have entered the rice paddies beside the Chingshui and Hsiukuluan Rivers in search of food. Farmers angry about trampled crops have set up flags and bird-catching nets and set off firecrackers -- exhausting themselves in the effort. But in their anger, they don't realize that the source of their problems is yet again the destruction of the Chingshui.
近三年來每逢春耕播種，清水溪、秀姑巒溪兩岸的農田常遭水鴨侵入覓食，破壞種苗，農民插萬國旗、架鳥網、放鞭炮多管齊下，疲於奔命。