Sounkyo Gorge today

This picture is taken yesterday.
From April 5th to 6th we had a lot of snow.
The top of gorge was covered with snow.
Now it is sunny, snow on the traffic road is melting.
If you cross the mountain pass, drive safety.

Around this season, it is getting warm and cold , snowing.
The spring weather is very changeable.
Weather forecast says it will be sunny .
Take care of yourself.

Sounkyo Gorge today

It has been snowing since early morning in Sounkyo.
The top of gorge is covered with snow.
Temperature is -2°c now.
From now it is getting warm and snow is melting.
But for a few days it might be snowing, the weather forecast says.

A lot of swans visit Kamikawa town.
They come down to rice field and eat rice.
Wild birds and flowers are ready for spring.
We don’t need snow anymore.

Sciurus vulgaris orientis

Temperature of morning and night is still minus in Sounkyo.
But it is getting warm in daytime.
Please watch a picture of Hokkaido Squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris orientis).
They get out of the nest, and find food.

Summer birds visit, “Adonis ramosa”, “Petasites japonicus (Siebold et Zucc.) Maxim.”, “Caltha palustris L. var. nipponica H.Hara”,” Lysichiton camtschatcensis” start blooming.
It might snow, but soon spring is coming.

Publication of a Visitor Center Report

We have published “Center News “.
This cover is “Icicles of Maple sap”.
Many kinds of wild birds are licking.
Winter beautiful scenery , for example , “Frost ice”, “Frost flower”, “Frost on the windows” and Russian flying squirrel and Hokkaido Sika Deer have been published.

Please check our website.

Pteromys volans orii

“Pteromys volans orii 〈Kuroda, 1921〉”
A bleeding season of “Pteromys volans orii 〈Kuroda, 1921〉” is coming soon.
This bleeding season already has come in the southern Hokkaido.
But here is northern Hokkaido, Kamikawa district, bleeding season will come a little bit later.

It is getting warm and getting cold, and having 10cm snow.
But one thing we can say for sure is that spring comes.

There is 340 cm snow at the 7th station.
There was 320cm snow same time last year.
There was 485cm snow same time in2018.
It keeps less snow for two consecutive years.