Spending over 3000 hours with the caltrop birds over four and a half years, I have grown with them and seen them go from being ordinary birds to being noticed by conservationists and gradually becoming celebrities. But with the headlong rush to development and a complete lack of any effective plan for preserving their habitat, I am afraid that in the end they will once again be ignored.
四年半的日子，三千多個小時的相處，我跟著菱角鳥成長，看它們由平淡、受保育人士注意而逐漸絢爛，但在開發聲浪高漲、至今無任何有效保存棲息地的辦法下，最後恐將歸於寂靜。