Onsen yesterday moring. This lake, Hyoko, is famous for
swans from Siberia for passing the coldness of winter.
They come every autumn, staying over winter in the Hyoko.
The first group of this season arrived 1st of October,
which was nine days earlier than last year, accoring to
information that I got from the administraltion office
at the lake. Don' surprise the number they will be.....
it's over 5,000! Acutually, it is counted up to 5,678 today.
I guess Hyoko is pretty famous among Siberian swans.
The swan lake has been registered as one of the Ramsar
Convention sites hich tries to susutain original ecologies
on waterlands since 30.Oct.08.
(Please see their website: http://www.ramsar.org/
for more details.)
Thre are totally 37 registered sites in Japan so far.
It is amazing to have such a lovely site nearby!
Heading to the lake from a car parking, I found
somethig widely spread on a big blue sheet.
These are a lot of crust for the swans when they are
at the lake. Oh, I should mind you that they are out
for rice fields surrounded by the lake at day time,
seeking leftovers of rice, their gorgeous meal.
The crust is packaged in these cute paper bags.
when I arrived, there weren't so many swans...
Oh well, I was a bit late for visiting. Lucky them,
they are really the early birds!
I should ask them tips for getting up early.
Yet, there are a huge number of ducks.
Some of them were having rest on a small pier.
Of course as it's the swan lake, the litter is also.....
a swan! Pretty isn't it?
Welcome back ladies and gentlemen. Please enjoy your
winter life.
