Yet Shen feels that his own strengths are in observing and writing, recording "the story of how the black kite struggles to survive on this overdeveloped piece of earth," to serve as testimony for future histories of the ecology.
但沈振中覺得，自己的長處就在於能看能寫，將「黑鳶如何在這塊過度開發的土地上求生存的故事」記錄下來，做為日後生態史的見證。