In the winter of 1985, he came to the mouth of the Tsengwen River. He set up his telescope in the bone-chilling breeze off the Pacific, and in his lens appeared more than 100 black-faced spoonbills-- of whom there had been no record of any flock in Taiwan for over sixty years and which bird lovers could see only in their books.
民國七十四年冬天，他來到曾文溪河口，在來自太平洋的刺骨寒風中架起望遠鏡，鏡頭裡竟然出現了一百多隻在台灣已近六十年沒有成群紀錄、鳥友只能在圖鑑上看到的黑面琵鷺。