But sadly tawny fish owls do not show themselves so readily. Over the past two years, searching day after day and month after month, Sun Yuan-hsun has found just one nest in the wild, and seen only a dozen or so tawny fish owls. But he has been able to ring less than ten, and several of those were injured birds "generously donated" by mountain dwellers.
可惜黃魚鴞卻不輕易現身，一年多來，日日月月地，孫元勳在野外總共只尋找到一個鳥巢，見過十幾隻黃魚鴞，但上過腳標的還不超過十隻，其中幾隻還是山上人家「慷慨捐贈」的傷鳥。